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29Jun/108

Don Heathfield = Russian Spy?

Today I got a call from the Boston Globe letting me know that a member of the Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Board, "Don Heathfield", is alleged t to be a Russian spy. What a surprise, huh? Naturally, I voted to remove him from the board.

The Lifeboat Foundation's Scientific Advisory Board has 1,148 members. I guess this makes 1,147.

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  1. Isn’t >1000 people rather large for a “board”?

  2. Also, shouldn’t that be, “…is *alleged* to be a spy?” Other newspapers are wording that much more carefully: rather naughty of the Boston Globe, whether Mr. Heathfield actually is a spy or not.

  3. If a “Board” member was associated with the CIA, would you also kick him out? But I appreciate that it’s necessarily to dissociate from him.

  4. > Isn’t >1000 people rather large for a “board”?

    It is. I’m sorry to say that as much as I usually agree with Michael, I’ve always found Lifeboat to be a rather ridiculous organization. They’ll sign up essentially anyone for their “boards” (and collecting more people for those listings seems to be the only thing they do), they have some real clowns in among the others there (IIRC). They even asked *me* years ago, but I declined.

  5. Just visited the Lifeboat website, it seems that they have actually improved somewhat, and I was a bit too mean in saying that they don’t seem to do much.

    But still, that unusual stuff of theirs with the boards really looks rather silly.

  6. Mitchell, no kidding.

    Wendy, I changed the wording, sorry. Maybe the reporter was just saying it informally. Innocent before proven guilty, though.


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