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Frightening Lack Of Imagination And Merit


While we old dinosaurs at Boggart Blog and The Daily Stirrer grump and grumble about bogus science (stopping mice getting alzheimers disease by giving them mobile phones for example) in fact the creation of useless science projects is linked to the work of another government department that is in the forefront of creating jobs to drive the economic recovery... the Ministry of DOISBUM.

DOISBUM Shows Frightening Lack Of Imagination And Merit
by Ian R Thorpe
2007-11-30
CREATIVE COMMONS: Attribute, non commercial, no derivs.
KEYWORDS: science, education, government, scientist, brown, britain, humour, humor, satire

The scariest thing about Blair’s meritocracy was the distinct lack of merit, just as scary, Brown’s new vision for Britain lacks imagination as well as continuing the lack of merit. Consider the complete and utter lack of imagination shown by that vital cog in the machine of Government, the Ministry Of Dishing Out Important Sounding But Ultimately Meaningless (DOISBUM) job titles. We were totally underwhelmed to learn this week the government’s chief scientific advisor has the DOISBUM job title of The Chief Scientist.

The job of chief scientist was created during the foot and mouth disease outbreak a few years back. Would a chief vet not have been more appropriate? Amazingly, we begin to realise that a job created to provide support for ministers during a crisis in agriculture has now expanded and the job holder not only pokes his nose into agricultural matters but advises on heath and wellness, computers and electronic technology, microbiology and for all we know rocket science. One of the big mistakes has been to conflate science with education in a single government department. Since then, probably because politicians like saying science as it is all soft vowels and sibilants and makes a sound that reminds us of foldling an attractive bottom through fine silk, all the emphasis in schools has been on "science" leaving the past decade's school leavers culturally denuded.

Its bad enough that ministers and civil servants don’t know what “science” means but while taunting the boy-scientists who do science scientifically because they are scientists over the past few months I have learned that scientists don’t either. You can’t DO science, it is an abstract generalised term covering a wide range of specialities. So to give a job the handle of "scientists is just a DOISBUM.

So Chief Scientist is a meaningless and dull title for one of those jobs governments create now and again to reward people who have covered their arse for them. It is all part of the Bullshit Industry that the global economy has become so dependent on. The job holder in such a post does nothing and is not even required to turn up very often. If we must employ such people, what is wrong with those grand old titles for officers of the government like Red Dragon Pursuant, Maltravers Herald Extraordinary or Master of the Rolls? Even the more modern Paymaster General (who was not actually responsible for paying for anything, not even his own drinks), sounds impressive compared with The Chief Scientist.

We must remember though the job of The Chief Scientist is nothing to do with knowledge or experimentation and everything to do with giving the government teflon shoulders so that none of the shit they help drug manufacturers and food processing companies shovel into us actually sticks to our elected representatives.

So what would be an appropriately traditional sounding title for such a function?
The Lord High Poisoner,
Magister Emeritus to the Court of St Fabricius,
Darth Vader?

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