Brian: I had a good conversation with an engineer yesterday on risk analysis and risk management and your comments above dovetail perfectly into what he was saying. The thrust of his conversation was that we now operate in a “post-fact” environment. No one really cares about getting things done right anymore, they’re just focusing on covering their ass and protecting themselves from liability.
The “fine technical details” are anything but. Oil rig operations are fairly simple, from a technical standpoint, but this is fairly irrelevant, and largely because the talking heads on television are idiots reading from a teleprompter. You hold yourself forth as an intelligent individual, but you completely missed (or ignored) the FACT that the cementing process was at issue here, not the drilling itself.
Of course, you don’t like facts and prefer not to argue them. As my attorney is fond of saying, “Why let the facts get in the way of a good story?”. This quote finds traction in your comment, “The promise of the oil industry that they can safely drill…”. Completely wrong and wrong-headed, but you don’t care: Its the rhetoric and polemic that matter, not the FACTS.
Welcome to the post-fact era.[/quote]
I think Brian would do well trying to shop medical malpractice lawsuits to Hillbillies in North Carolina with John Edwards. Can we line him up with John Edwards equivalent in the oil litigation industry?
