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"Associate professor Michelle Voyer was startled to see an article from the
internationally esteemed academic journal
Marine Policy asserting that wind
energy projects proposed for the waters off the Illawarra and Hunter Valley
would kill 400 whales a year pop up on social media.
After all Voyer lives in the Illawarra, and due to her role as principal fellow
with the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security at the
University of Wollongong, she has expertise in the field. She is also, it turns
out, associate editor of
Marine Policy. She did not recognise the article.
She called a colleague, Professor Quentin Hanich, who also lives locally and
who is editor-in-chief of
Marine Policy. He confirmed what she suspected; the
paper was a complete fabrication and had never been published.
But to someone without expertise it may have seemed credible, says Voyer, who
suspected its author may have used an artificial intelligence program to mock
up a journal article. The Facebook page that posted the article removed it when
she flagged that it was false, but Voyer is concerned about the damage it might
already have done.
The fake paper was another shot fired in an increasingly heated debate sparked
by the federal government opening a community consultation period to consider
the possible footprint of a potential future wind energy industry off the coast
of the Illawarra and Hunter regions. The two areas were selected because they
have existing heavy industry that will demand future clean energy, deepwater
ports, transmission lines and sophisticated industrial workforces.
The debate has been marked by the genuine concern of many local residents, but
also a wave of political rhetoric and alleged misinformation that some fear
could derail the process before it properly begins."
Dirty tricks, as usual.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
