Comments on: Do you know who sends me more paper junk mail than anybody else?

By: T. Ryan Gregory

T. Ryan Gregory — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:00:34 +0000

Well, I don’t want to speculate about such matters and this certainly isn’t a statement about Dr. Suzuki personally — I just don’t like junk mail.

By: karl

karl — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:58:25 +0000

I seem to recall Suzuki lost some cred in academia about a decade ago. He funded a small scholarship for a Carleton student in science journalism. A Carleton prof wrote something critical of one of his books and he yanked the scholarship, depriving some innocent student of needed cash. Sigh.

By: Jonathan Badger

Jonathan Badger — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:32:39 +0000

Yes, the irony of environmental groups sending paper junk mail is always worth a laugh. But what I always thought was weird when I lived in Canada was that the David Suzuki Foundation was an environmental organization. I mean, you’d think that it would have something to do with genetic analysis, given who David Suzuki is. It would be like having an American environmental organization named the Richard Lewontin Foundation, given that much like Suzuki, Lewontin is probably better known among the public for his politics rather than his science.