Factoid/2006/09/26
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Being Effective and Weathering Personal Attacks
- "Twenty-five years ago, when I began speaking and writing about seawalls and how they destroy beaches, I was shocked at the tenor of the response to this idea both from professional engineers and from developers and politicians. The attacks on me were often quite personal, and letters damning me were written to my university president and to the papers. As a scientist, I was unaccustomed to such personal attacks. Now, I consider such reactions to be a badge of honor and a measure of effectiveness, but it took some time to get to this point." - excerpt from Orrin Pilkey, appearing in this Grist article.
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