Talk:JASON Defense Advisory Group

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Much better researched than the Wikipedia article.

http://home.planet.nl/~reijd050/organisations/JASON_Group.htm

http://home.planet.nl/~reijd050/organisations/Jason_Group_members_list.htm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.134.206.154 (talk • contribs) 22:46, November 13, 2005

"NB: The Federation of American Scientists link, above, has reliable information. Otherise, much of what's on the internet about Jason, including the links below [abvoe], is a mix of fact, conjecture, and pure fantasy." (151.196.245.134)

Please go through those webpages and classify statements into fact and fantasy. GangofOne 07:34, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] book review

See page 21 of the Sunday, April 16, 2006 NYT Book Review "Rent-a-Genius" , where John Horgan provides missing information, e.g., Mildred Goldberger named JASON.204.210.35.48 14:49, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/16/books/review/16horgan.html reg. req. GangofOne 21:50, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] who were the three?

"DARPA's decision came after Jason's refusal to allow DARPA to select three new Jason members, two of whom were Silicon Valley execs without PhDs and thus "unqualified" by the standards of eminent academics." Who were these 3, and were 2 SV execs? Does Ann Finkbeiner know? GangofOne 23:43, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Actually, she doesn't know. Nobody wanted to embarrass these guys by naming them. Apparently the "Silicon Valley exec" part is true, and apparently the third was an engineer whose credentials didn't rise to stellar. But I know that only from the Jasons, not from these people themselves. ~Ann Finkbeiner

[edit] JASON/Jason

Is it JASONs? Jasons?

The article switches taxonomy throughout.


Just about everybody uses JASONs, including the Jasons themselves. But the name is not an acronym, those letters stand for nothing. It's just the name, the Greek hero, Jason. So I personally don't capitalize. ~Ann Finkbeiner

Both seem to be used by sources even if arguably JASON is a bit silly. Does JASON/Jason have an official website or some such or any indication of their preference? In any case, I definitely think we need to standardise. The article is confusing as is switching between JASON and Jason. It sometimes sounds like it's talking about someone called Jason e.g. "In 2002, Democratic Congressman Rush Holt of New Jersey sent letters to key members of the House of Representatives to protest DARPA's decision to fire Jason." (this probably should be reworded whatever the case since I'm not quite sure what it means to fire JASON. This isn't mentioned elsewhere Nil Einne 13:33, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article should revert to version of July 2

The recent series of vandalisms and fixes in this article have left it with both errors and unnecessary deletions. Can the article be reverted to the version of July 2? 151.196.116.140 15:43, 1 August 2007 (UTC)Ann Finkbeiner

In other words, I don't know how to revert the article to the last unvandalized version. Can a Wiki administrator help?