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Man fined for criticizing govt using science, without a license
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Richard Crowley:

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--- Quote from: Richard Crowley on May 02, 2017, 05:39:04 pm ---Even bamboozling contributors to this august forum.   :palm:

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I seriously doubt that anyone here is confused about the facts of this case and the seven pages of posts show that. The thread title is misleading; basically forum click bait. We're smarter than that. Or was that sarcasm?

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Several people here have expressed doubts about the underlying technical problem and focused on the distraction strategy of the government.  Classic misdirection as practiced by any half-competent magician.
EEVblog:

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--- Quote from: mikeselectricstuff on April 26, 2017, 08:02:25 am ---https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/man-fined-dollar500-for-crime-of-writing-i-am-an-engineer-in-an-email-to-the-government
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He was not fined for criticising the government using science without a license.
He was fined for saying he is an engineer when he is probably not. In short, probably misleading behaviour.

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Nope, he was fined because he used the title "engineer" without being licensed in that state.
That is a very different thing from whether not his vocations and/or qualifications are in engineering.
EEVblog:
For those who haven't seen it, some of his calcs:


https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/man-fined-dollar500-for-crime-of-writing-i-am-an-engineer-in-an-email-to-the-government
MarkS:
Yep. Seen it. Lots of letters and numbers and symbols and squiggly lines and pretty colors.
james_s:
The important part there is pretty clear from the graph and in fact doesn't even need a graph. The yellow interval for the intersections in question are substantially shorter than standard.

IIRC a city up in my area got busted a number of years ago for doing the same thing.
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