You may have noticed that the title of this post promised five modes of engagement and I’ve only described four.
There is a fifth, what I call the Stealth Issue Advocate. This role is characterized by the expert who seeks to hide his/her advocacy behind a facade of science, either pure scientist or science arbiter.
This role seeks to swim in a sea of politics without getting wet. It is the fastest route to pathologically politicizing science. It is also what gives scientists as advocates a bad name.
via Roger Pielke Jr.’s Blog: Five Modes of Science Engagement.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
Jan 21, 2015 @ 11:49:07
Is Pielke trying to be ironic?
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Jan 21, 2015 @ 11:53:23
There you go again: playing the man rather than the ball.
As Karl Popper said, the motives of a researcher or interlocutor in a debate do not matter to the growth of knowledge.
What matters is the quality of the critical discussion of what has been said.
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Jan 21, 2015 @ 14:15:32
Pielke seems to unable to realise where he is on this list .
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