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Saturday, February 07, 2009

Cafasso as Stormer and his sloppy reporting

When reading over at Causal Nexus this morning about how less-than-impressive Cafasso is as Robert Stormer when he attempts to "investigate" the failure of EPIRB systems and encourage people to write their representatives to spur investigations, I began looking around for other examples.

It is not only Cafasso's signature temper, and desire to have people killed that sets him apart from the other investigators, it is what the writer at PANBO summarizes in this post:

Conclusion? Stormer’s sloppy Ellie B./Adriatic example does not illustrate why Congress should push the Coast Guard to better investigate EPIRBs problems, as he claims, but instead how the USCG already does such investigations when appropriate. It also suggests how deeply shoddy and biased his investigative reporting really is. A motivated high school student could do better, and more balanced, Web research in a day than he’s managed in a year. Stormer’s “investigation” sure looks like a self-aggrandizing vendetta—facts and critics be damned—and nothing but a disservice to mariners, equipment manufacturers, the USCG, and the whole SARSAT community.

It was pointed out by CN that there are some who readily recognized Cafasso as someone who doesn't know what he's talking about. Saying that you have credentials such as a degree in engineering and actually having a degree in engineering - are two completely different things. If he were qualified to speak on these issues, he wouldn't be caught plagiarizing, and wouldn't be caught mis-reading the very articles he references. He can't even draw reasonable conclusions.

His negative reporting demonstrates yet another attempt to bamboozle not only people who are interested in exposing maritime accidents and the failures of the systems that put lives at risk, it reveals his desire to drag government agencies and government entities into it.

He is famous for conracting and filing fictitious complaints and reports with government agencies; it's part of his schtick.

joe cafasso

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