Biostitute - a word whose time has not come

For the 2nd time in 2 days a blurb in the Captivate elevator video newsfeed has caused me to blog-rant. Item - click on above title in wordspy.com - " biostitute (by.AWS.tuh.toot) n. A biologist who supports a company or activity that is harmful to the environment."
Apparently used by environmentalists to describe their scientific brethren who practice biology in the service of corporations that pollute"

Huh?! or even Duh!? Well, yeah sure, BUT please ask the citizens of former communist countries whose scientists were all in the employ of GOVERNMENT whether the lack of a profit motive assisted in the protection of the environment or whether instead State policy and marxist dictated academics led to unquestionable obedience and passive bureaucracy leading to many spectacular horrible incidents as well as widespread ecological despoilment. We probably won't know the half of the damage in China for their development policies until a decade after totalitarianism falls.

And before questioning the integrity of ALL of American scientists who apparently created the most efficient environmental control systems in the world - how about examining the well-known and provable examples of extortion of big industry by environmental organizations such as NRDC*.

Blackmailers calling scientists in honest jobs prostitutes - hypocrisy indeed!


*http://www.zmag.org/zmag/articles/apr97tokar.html
*http://www.innercitypress.org/bxrep104.html
*http://www.doewatch.com/family.html