Dr. Kammen is most likely the smartest man in any room the posters here would occupy.  I learned as a teen, to my dismay, that intelligence doesn't always transfer to moral righteousness.  I was impressed with the intelligence of Haldeman, Erlichman and Dean testifying before the televised Watergate Hearings and was perplexed by why these super-smart men could do such wrong-headed things.  In later years, I wasn't so naive but was still saddened to learn many believed the Good Guy, Sam Ervin was a Southern Democrat racist.   Strip away all the academics and basically Kammen is just another political hack, in my opinion.  His side lost and he is angry.  It sounds very familiar.