Reply #83: I have known several people who worked on such issues full-time for ... [View All]

[struggle4progress]

... decades, and it has never been my experience that they lied or that were secretive. Mostly, what they did was to read, and to comment on, technical material.

It was rather dull and thankless work to my POV -- and I almost always found them willing to share what they had learned. There were a few, limited exceptions: on the terrorism issue, for example, throughout the 1980's and 1990's, for example, these critics avoided publicizing vulnerabilities.

I don't know what you mean in calling yourself a former "hard-core anti-nuclear activist," but I say you can pick your own friends and you can pick your own behavior. If you associated with liars, perhaps that was your choice.