Environment
Felmingham: Misconceptions and inconsistencies
GRAEME WELLS
A number of the TT comments have asked for my reaction to the Felmingham/Forestry Tasmania report on subsidies. I will provide a report to TT readers detailing the errors, misconceptions and inconsistencies in the Felmingham/Forestry Tasmania report in the next few days.
Dr ANDREW WADSLEY
This mish-mash is inexcusable given that Dr Felmingham built the Tasmanian Input/Output model (TIRO) which is designed, in part, to resolve just such issues. The report appears to be scientific in its assessment, when in reality it is merely misleading. As Paul A. Samuelson said, “Economics has never been a science — and it is even less now than a few years ago.” Quod Erat Demonstrandum.
NEIL SMITH
Perhaps it’s more sinister that Dr Felmingham’s part in this looks like another example of the growing tendency of the academic establishment to operate according to the principle “he who pays the piper calls the tune”. Yet another nail in the coffin of civilisation.