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Doctors for Disaster Preparedness

21st Annual Meeting Reports – Doctors for Disaster Preparedness, 01/07/2003 – http://www.ddponline.org/ddpnews/ddpjul03.htm
“The Petr Beckmann Award for ‘courage and achievement in the defense of scientific truth and freedom’ was presented to Dr. Sherwood Idso for his work demonstrating the fertilizing effect of increased carbon dioxide on the biosphere. He now publishes a remarkable on-line science journal at http://www.co2science.org.”

Leo Hickman (2010) – Climate sceptics and fringe political groups are an unhealthy cocktail – The Guardian, 04/06/2010 – http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/jun/04/climate-sceptics-fringe-political-groups
“The DDP website lists its president as Jane Orient, MD. Orient, whose private practice specialises in «internal medicine», has also at times variously been the executive director and president of a group sharing the very same address in Tucson, Arizona, called the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS). Further proof that these two groups are closely connected is provided on the DDP’s Facebook page which lists an administrator called Adrienne Snavely who also describes herself as «office staff» at the AAPS. (She also lists herself as an employed storm spotter for the National Weather Service. Nice work, if you can get it.)

2010 Petr Beckmann Award Given to Marc Morano – Doctors for Disaster Preparedness, 08/07/2010 – http://www.ddponline.org/home/2010/7/8/2010-petr-beckmann-award-given-to-marc-morano.html
“The Petr Beckmann award is given by DDP to individuals who demonstrate courage and achievement in defense of scientific truth and freedom. Marc Morano of http://www.climatedepot.com received the award in June of 2010.”

Joseph Romm – UK Guardian slams Morano for cyber-bullying and for urging violence against climate scientists – Climate Progress, 15/07/2010 – http://climateprogress.org/2010/07/15/uk-guardian-slams-morano-for-cyber-bullying-and-for-urging-violence-against-climate-scientists/
“But it might be worth bearing in mind that Morano has said some rather choice things himself about climate scientists in the past: «I seriously believe we should kick them while they’re down. They deserve to be publicly flogged.» If this is what Doctors for Disaster Preparedness means by “demonstrating courage and achievement in defence of scientific truth and freedom” then it has a rather different interpretation of the words “courage” and “defence” than I do.”

Joseph Romm – UK Guardian slams Morano for cyber-bullying and for urging violence against climate scientists – Climate Progress, 15/07/2010 – http://climateprogress.org/2010/07/15/uk-guardian-slams-morano-for-cyber-bullying-and-for-urging-violence-against-climate-scientists/
«Here’s how Jane Orient, DDP’s president, introduced Morano to the stage to receive his award: «It’s given to those who speak out courageously, even though it might be politically incorrect, to support the truth that is essential for our progress in science. Our recipient this year has been particularly effective in winning victories in this field. And he also uses with great effectiveness one of Petr Beckmann’s best weapons – humour.» I’m sure Professor Schneider, and all the other climate scientists who have been receiving death threats and hate mail in recent months, must be tickled sick with humour by the vicious irony of this award.”

Wiki – Doctors for Disaster Preparedness – Sourcewatch, 04/06/2011 – http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Doctors_for_Disaster_Preparedness
“The registrant for DDP’s website is listed as Jeremy Snavely of AAPS, with an email address ending in «aapsonline.org.» That is the website for the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, which lists the same address as DDP. [4] DDP’s Facebook page lists DDP President Dr. Jane Orient is also the Executive Director of AAPS.”

Christopher Essex – Believing Six Impossible Things before Breakfast, and Climate Models – Doctors for Disaster Preparedness 29th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, July 2011 – Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvhipLNeda4 – autores

James Lawrence Powell (2011) – The Inquisition of Climate Science – Columbia University Press – National Science Board – ISBN-13: 978-0231157186 – 240 Págs
“That same year [1997], Baliunas won the Petr Beckmann Award for her ‘devastating critique of the global warming hoax’ [ref: Sourcewatch]. Doctors for Disaster Preparedness, another admirably named organization, which has close ties with the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, gives the award for ‘courage and achievement in defense of scientific truth and freedom,’ Winners of the Beckmann award are a Who’s Who of denial, including Sherwood Idso, Robert Jastrow, Arthur. B. Robinson, S. Fred Singer, and Baliunas coauthor, Willie Soon.»

DDP 32nd Annual Meeting – Doctors for Disaster Preparedness – 06/04/2014 – – http://www.ddponline.org/2014/04/06/235/ – autores “An American “Reset” on Science and Defense? … Co-sponsored by: Access to Energy; Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine; Physicians for Civil Defense.”

John Mashey – Anti-Science Associations: Rand Paul, Jane Orient, Art Robinson, Willie Soon And Friends, Plus HHS Nominee Tom Price & Funder Robert Mercer – Desmogblog, 23/02/2015 – https://www.desmogblog.com/2015/02/23/anti-science-associations-rand-paul-jane-orient-art-robinson-willie-soon-and-friends
“In “Rand Paul Is Linked to Doctors’ Group That Supports Vaccination Challenges,” the New York Times documented his long involvement (~1990-2010) with the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), but only scratched the surface of the strangeness. AAPS Executive Director Jane Orient and her associates run a tightly-coupled group of 501(c)(3) public charities. They seem to reject much modern science and focus efforts to promote political views, perhaps beyond the 501(c) rules. Enough has been learned since this earlier post to motivate this update and some following posts, especially given the recent prominence of DDP’s favorite outside speaker, Willie Soon. [Willie Soon’s fossil fuel funding, and failures to disclose, are hot in the news right now, see New York Times, The Guardian, Inside Climate News, and DeSmogBlog.] Of course, organization membership does not imply acceptance of all positions, but Rand Paul’s long-time association raises questions. Which of their views on science does he accept? Which of their policies does he support? Rand Paul is still featured at AAPS About Us, often using “we” regarding its actions.”

John Mashey – Anti-Science Associations: Rand Paul, Jane Orient, Art Robinson, Willie Soon And Friends, Plus HHS Nominee Tom Price & Funder Robert Mercer – Desmogblog, 23/02/2015 – https://www.desmogblog.com/2015/02/23/anti-science-associations-rand-paul-jane-orient-art-robinson-willie-soon-and-friends
“Jane Orient (or this or this) is the contact for at least 6 nonprofits some dormant, most tax-exempt 501(c)(3).   She signed the Scientific Dissent From Darwinism.  She met with Philip Morris and was often mentioned and seemed aligned with Big Tobacco against attempts to reduce teen smoking.  She wrote Attack on Coal Will Not Save Lives, and as President of DDP below, supports many attacks against climate science, below. For a quick calibration, watch the 16-minute video in which she introduced the 2013 DDP program.”

John Mashey – Anti-Science Associations: Rand Paul, Jane Orient, Art Robinson, Willie Soon And Friends, Plus HHS Nominee Tom Price & Funder Robert Mercer – Desmogblog, 23/02/2015 – https://www.desmogblog.com/2015/02/23/anti-science-associations-rand-paul-jane-orient-art-robinson-willie-soon-and-friends
“Update 11/30/16 Tom Price, Donald Trump’s nominee to run Health and Human Services was(is?) an AAPS Member, discussed in far more detail by Orac in this recommended 11/30/16 post.  Update 12/01/16 A year ago, Zachary Mider wrote What Kind of Man Spends Millions to Elect Ted Cruz? about Robert Mercer, who then strongly backed Donald Trump’s campaign, but has funded several of the organizations here and attended meeting(s). It included a graph like that below, but with Mercer at center.”

John Mashey – Anti-Science Associations: Rand Paul, Jane Orient, Art Robinson, Willie Soon And Friends, Plus HHS Nominee Tom Price & Funder Robert Mercer – Desmogblog, 23/02/2015 – https://www.desmogblog.com/2015/02/23/anti-science-associations-rand-paul-jane-orient-art-robinson-willie-soon-and-friends
“Andrew Schlafly (Wikipedia, RationalWiki) has long been AAPS General Counsel, so is presumably known to Rand Paul. He has spoken often for DDP, on such topics as global warming in courts, the litigation epidemic, that litigation and junk science helped bring down the World Trade Center, and that great thinkers are almost entirely created via home schooling. Regardless of the merits, the relevance of some seems unclear to the stated purposes of DDP.  His behavior in the “Lenski Affair” seems similar to those who demand data while lacking the expertise or intent to do something useful with it.

John Mashey – Anti-Science Associations: Rand Paul, Jane Orient, Art Robinson, Willie Soon And Friends, Plus HHS Nominee Tom Price & Funder Robert Mercer – Desmogblog, 23/02/2015 – https://www.desmogblog.com/2015/02/23/anti-science-associations-rand-paul-jane-orient-art-robinson-willie-soon-and-friends
“AAPS Educational Foundation, IRS, apparently dormant. Southwestern Institute of Science LTD IRS, apparently dormant. Physicians for Civil Defense, IRS, still has active website, currently featuring “The Good News About Nuclear Destruction.” At least once DDP sent money there, easy since they are located in the same office. American Health Legal Foundation (AHLF), IRS, has $500K in assets and 2 officers/directors shared with AAPS, plus Orient. Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS, 501(c)(6)), IRS, has $800K assets,  paid Jane Orient $182,600 in 2012 (Form 990), has a few thousand members, website, and entries in Wikipedia, SourceWatch and RationalWiki, which has a good list of AAPS positions. AAPS publishes the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (JPandS), not an indexed, peer-reviewed journal, discussed in 2007, or in 2009.  JPandS published “Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide” in 2007 by Art Robinson, Noah Robinson, and Willie Soon.  It has often published Robinsons, as well as other climate-relevant pieces. Besides Jane Orient, it has shared seveal offices/directors with DDP, as enumerated in attached spreadsheet. Doctors for Disaster Preparedness INC (DDP), IRS, has a website, a SourceWatch entry, has about $90K in assets and seems a joint effort between Jane Orient and Art Robinson. Howard Hayden is a director (SourceWatch entry.)  Robert J. Cihak is a Director for both DDP and AAPS, SourceWatch, writes for NewsMax and is a Board Member and Senior Fellow of the Discovery Institute. DDP runs annual conferences, as described in Fakery 2  pp.178-179, advertised by OISM, or in the 2014 meeting, many of whose speakers would be familiar to DeSmogBlog readers, often via involvement with the Heartland Institute.  Disaster-preparedness seems a worthy topic, but it is unclear why anti-renewable-energy and climate anti-science fill half the slots in recent years.” Weird Anti-Science PDF p.4 gives another related social network graph, and p.19 describes an annual award by DDP to honor Petr Beckman (SourceWatch), who devoted his later life to proving Einstein’s relativity wrong. Honorees have included Jane Orient, Robert Jastrow, Sallie Balliunas, Art Robinson, Fred Singer. Sherwood Idso, Willie Soon, and Marc Morano. The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM), IRS, has about $5M in assets, a website (currently asking for urine samples), a SourceWatch entry. Two of its “faculty” are deceased. The Board consists of Art Robinson, his sons Noah and Zachary, Jane Orient, and one more person. OISM is famed for the Oregon Petition, an activity that seems far outside its 501(c)(3) charter and whose funding is still unknown, but might well be connected with the George Marshall Institute. Art Robinson (Wikipedia, RationalWiki, SourceWatch) has run for US Representative several times, endorsed by Rand Paul’s father Ron Paul. Rachel Maddow’s 2010 interview may offer some insight into his views.  She followed with a 5-minute version in 2014 covering his 3rd run, and requests for urine samples from Oregonians. George Gilder (Wikipedia, SourceWatch) cofounded the Discovery Instute (Wikipedia, RationalWiki), which hosts the video “The Global Warming Myth – Dr Noah Robinson – Telecosm 2007.”  In the first few minutes, Gilder explained that “Arthur Robinson was the man who first alerted me to the possible flaws in the case for human-caused global warming” and then introduced chemist/veternarian Noah to speak.  In Fantasy Fears, Steve Forbes relied on George’s med student daughter Mary Ellen Tiffany Gilder, with a paper at OISM.

John Mashey – Was Willie Soon Paid For Science…Or Anti-Science? – Desmogblog, 27/02/2015 – http://www.desmogblog.com/2015/02/27/was-willie-soon-paid-science-or-anti-science
“Doctors for Disaster Preparedness’s tax-free, Primary Exempt Purpose is “To distribute scientific and defense related information on public health, safety and security issues.”  However, DDP’s main activity seems to be an annual meeting that offers an odd collection of talks. Some indeed cover disaster preparedness, some seem interesting, but not obviously relevant. Even odder, it does not seem relevant in this forum to attack climate and environmental sciences and renewable energy, as have about half the talks in recent years. It is unclear why even legitimate policy arguments about these would fit DDP’s charitable purpose. In the attached spreadsheet, Chron lists talks chronologically and Speakers is sorted by name, putting Willie Soon near the end. Most agendas 1999-2014 are complete, offering hours of videos for dedicated viewers. Year 2013, #31 is a good example of a complete meeting. Soon was their favorite outside speaker, every year 2000-2014. His sessions often follow this pattern: Art Robinson introduces Soon with great praise, as in #25 and #26.  Soon says how honored he is to speak to such a distinguished audience and sometimes says he is no expert at the topic, akin to Fred Singer’s “How would I know?”  He then speaks for most or all of the alloted time, using a style that might be called Gish Gallop with Graphs Galore, interspersed with jokes about scientists and Al Gore.”

Jane M. Orient – Is Hillary Clinton Medically Unfit to Serve? – Junkscience, 10/08/2016 – http://junkscience.com/2016/08/is-hillary-clinton-medically-unfit-to-serve/
“While we don’t have Mrs. Clinton’s medical records, it is widely stated that she experienced a fall that caused a concussion. Since then, she is sometimes seen wearing eyeglasses with prisms, as are used to correct double vision. Concussions often cause traumatic brain injury, which might not be visualized on standard CT or MRI. Many of our veterans who experienced blast injury from improvised explosive devices suffer from it. These are some symptoms: difficulty thinking, attention deficits, confusion, memory problems, frustration, mood swings, emotional outbursts, agitation, headaches, difficulties with balance and coordination, and seizures. Many veterans with such an injury cannot hold a job or interact normally with their families. Obviously, it would be very dangerous for a person subject to symptoms like this to be dealing with foreign leaders or making critical decisions.”

Doctors for Disaster Preparedness (DDP) – Desmogblog, 11/08/2016 – http://www.desmogblog.com/doctors-disaster-preparedness
“Doctors for Disaster Preparedness (DDP) offers a “Disaster Preparedness Library,” which includes a “Global Warming Seminar” by Arthur B. Robinson as well as coverage of “Nuclear War Survival Skills.” Topics on DDP’s website include: “Ozone hole, Global warming, and other Environmental Scares,” Chem/Bio Terrorism, Vaccines, DDT, Low Dose Radiation, Civil Defense, Chemical Hysteria, Physician Oaths, Nuclear Fear, among others.”

DDP Climate Change IQ Project – Doctors for Disaster Preparedness, 11/09/2017 – http://www.ddponline.org/2017/09/11/ddp-climate-change-iq-project/
“In an effort to spur some critical thinking, DDP has launched the Climate Change IQ Test. We intend to distribute a question of the week for 10 weeks. You can help by disseminating the questions, posted here and in our Twitter feed, @d4dp. (If you are on Twitter, please follow us!) Use email, social media, or other means of communicating with elected officials, opinion leaders, teachers, or friends. Add you own comments and suggestions. Here’s a list of “Climate Solutions Caucus” members and their contact information: https://goo.gl/MhLZTo And here is a copy of the cover letter introducing the Caucus members to our project:…”

Stephan Lewandowsky and John Cook – Coronavirus conspiracy theories are dangerous – here’s how to stop them spreading – The Conversation. 20/04/2020 – Chair of Cognitive Psychology, University of Bristol; Research Assistant Professor, Center for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University – https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-conspiracy-theories-are-dangerous-heres-how-to-stop-them-spreading-136564
“His 5G video was from a talk he presented at a pseudo-scientific conference featuring a who’s who of science deniers. One of the headliners was Andrew Wakefield, a debarred former physician and seminal figure in the anti-vaccination movement who promotes highly damaging misinformation about vaccination based on data that he is known to have falsified. Another attendee of this meeting was the president of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness, an organisation famous for bestowing awards onto fossil-fuel funded climate deniers and for giving a platform to a speaker who denied the link between HIV and AIDS, claiming that the link was invented by government scientists who wanted to cover up other health risks of “the lifestyle of homosexual men.” ”

Doctors for Disaster Preparedness – Sourcewatch. 04/06/2020 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctors_for_Disaster_Preparedness
“The group is closely affiliated with the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons, a politically conservative nonprofit association advocating numerous discredited hypotheses including AIDS denialism.[2] It is run by Arizona physician Jane Orient.[3] According to Bloomberg News, the group was «founded to promote civil defense during the Cold War», and has been «transformed over the years into a forum» on «fringe-science topics» such as global warming denial. DDP was described by The Guardian as a «fringe political group» and as a «truly bizarre lobby group».[2] It promotes the denialist view that man-made global warming is not real or not an important concern … Doctors for Disaster Preparedness share the same address with AAPS. DDP President Jane Orient is also the Executive Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS). DDP Vice-President Arthur B. Robinson is also the President of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM) … Computer scientist and hedge fund manager Robert Mercer has been a donor to DDP.”

Doctors for Disaster Preparedness – Sourcewatch, 04/06/2020 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctors_for_Disaster_Preparedness
“The Petr Beckmann Award for courage and achievement in defense of scientific truth and freedom’ is awarded at the annual meeting of the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness. The award is named for Petr Beckmann, an electrical engineer and libertarian who challenged Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. The Guardian described the Beckmann Award as «handed out by obscure rightwing lobbyists». The following people have received this award: 1995 – Jane Orient[9] 1996 – Robert Jastrow[10] 1997 – Sallie Baliunas[11] 1998 – Arthur B. Robinson[12] 2000 – S. Fred Singer[13] 2003 – Sherwood B. Idso[14] 2004 – Willie Soon[15] 2012 – Marc Morano.”

Doctors for Disaster Preparedness – Sourcewatch, 04/06/2020 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctors_for_Disaster_Preparedness
“Doctors for Disaster Preparedness President Jane Orient has asserted that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports are unreliable and that relevant data was «hidden, locked in the clutches of the elite few» because the data would «decisively disproves their computer models and shows that their draconian emission controls are based on nothing except a lust for power, control and profit.» After the nuclear accident at Fukushima, Orient argued in the John Birch Society publication The New American that concerns about the disaster were exaggerated and the accident should not deter the United State from using nuclear power. After a reported increase in fallout-shelter construction since the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, she was quoted as saying, «They’re treating me less like a crazy woman than they did before.».”