State Penn

The arguments about Penn State and Joe Paterno are at a fever pitch. It seems to be a developing consensus that the University was involved in a cover up of the incident involving a child being molested. The purpose likely being to keep the money flowing. It won’t be the first time. Back in January of 2010 I wrote a bit about Penn State researcher Michael Mann and how he was accused of scientific fraud. Well I never did a follow up on that post. So what was the outcome? Penn State let Michael Mann off the hook. And why not? Had the University shown fraud it would have stopped the government money flows. Or at least throttled them some.

I expect that this latest bit will dry up a lot of alumni money flows what ever the truth of the matter. I guess molesting a child carries a LOT more weight with the public than scientific fraud. Even though the scientific fraud hurts a lot more people. But the hurt is diffuse. The child is specific. Stalin understood the psychology all too well.

“One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic.”

If you are going to do a fraud work it out so you steal one dollar from a million people. Stealing a million from one person will get you in a LOT more trouble.