Sharon Weinberger: Imaginary Weapons

Jerry Interviews Sharon




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Noted Military Science reporter Sharon Weinberger, on the line from Washington D.C., discusses her five year beat at the Pentagon specializing in special weapons. In her book, IMAGINARY WEAPONS: A Journey Through the Pentagon’s Scientific Underworld, Sharon discusses many of the more exotic weapons systems paid for with huge price tags by the American Tax Payer. In addition, Jerry probes her thoughts and viewpoints about the Neo-Conservative movement inside the Pentagon, Donald Rumsfeld and the huge amount of space given to corporate America by the defense department on military reservations around the world.
 

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Review of Imaginary Weapons:

“Wryly written and richly reported, the book exposes both the hustlers of Big Science and the gullible defense bureaucrats and generals who wasted tax dollars while desperately seeking a far-out defense against a ‘nuclear 9/11.’ Weinberger's story also captures the larger irrationalities and wastefulness of the military-industrial complex, and offers a sobering moral for our scary epoch: If this is how our appointed defenders routinely defend us, then God save us all.” — Keay Davidson, author of Carl Sagan: A Life.
 

Physicist Jack Sarfatti Offers His Point of View

OK, I just finished the book (7/7/06). It's gripping and could be a TV drama. I agree with Sharon's main thesis of science gone bad with the hafnium triggering and the cult of USG bureaucrats forming around the charismatic Carl Collins, who reminds me of ENRON's Ken Lay on a smaller scale, and that Tony Tether and a few others are still in power at DARPA etc..... well given Iraq, I suppose that's to be expected. Rumsfeld got "Transformation" from his time here in San Francisco at ICS in mid-80's with Werner Erhard.

I think Sharon was too hard on me, Eric Davis and Hal Puthoff. She may soften some of her rhetoric in the paperback edition. She needs to mention Russell Targ with Hal Puthoff at the SRI RV Project. Indeed, I think it was Russell who got the project going(?).

A few general remarks.

Hafnium isomer triggering - a bad joke for sure.

Cold fusion? Depends what you mean. Nuclear fusion? Almost certainly not? Some kind of zero point energy release? Perhaps? Junk physics the way Sharon and Richard Laughlin mean? Could be. I have not followed the field but Brian Josephson has - so what does Brian say?

Remote-Viewing is not being hidden - it's in the open literature e.g. recent AAAS USD meeting two weeks ago. There is sound fringe "paranormal" research that should not be lumped into the "pseudo" "junk" "pathological" (Langmuir) categories. Same for UFOs, ET alien contact claims.

Problem is there is a lot of kooky crackpot New Age not-even-wrong noise in all of fringe science that needs to be filtered out. I try to do that.

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About Dr. Jack Sarfatti

Jack’s work today explores the leading theories of mind-matter physics as he examines hyperspace, time travel, remote viewing , contact with higher intelligence, and more. He was a research fellow at the University of London with David Bohm, scientist at Tech/Ops, Ford Philco Aeronutronics, and author of Destiny Matrix, Space-Time and Beyond and Super Cosmos. He has appeared in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home special collector’s edition and Time-Travel: The Art of the Possible. Jack has been CEO of a scientific research foundation since 1995 and consults for the US Intelligence Community on technological surprise from new physics breakthroughs.

Jack's web site: www.stardrive.org.