BP (NYSE:BP) Has Bizarre Claims Made Against Them

Admitting there is no evidence anyone at BP (NYSE:BP) so-called "consciously" made an effort to undermine safety on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, University of California at Berkeley professor Bob Bea concluded it was the "underlying unconscious mind that governs the actions of an organization and its personnel," which resulted in the accident and its consequences.

What a bizarre conclusion. And this guy is teaching the young people of America!

In other words, the new media age doesn't allow for the nonsense of drawing unprovable conlusions, so the mystical unconscious mind created by the BP management is supposedly behind the catastrophe. And these people call themselves scientists, and are expected to be taken seriously. Sounds like voodoo, not science.

Bea stated: "Perhaps there is no clear-cut 'evidence' that someone in BP or in the other organizations in the Macondo well project made a conscious decision to put costs before safety; nevertheless, that misses the point. It is the underlying unconscious mind that governs the actions of an organization and its personnel."

That BEA says it "misses the point," is actually missing the point.

This was the group of 60 scientists and independent offshore drilling "experts" called the Deepwater Horizon Study Group which came to this conclusion.

Even though there is absolutely no proof of this on the part of BP, certain elements of the university and scientific community simply can't stand that the narrative couldn't be created that BP did this in attempts to save time and money at the expense of safety.

Nobody doubts things could have been handled better, that's why the accident happened, because there were failures. But to appeal to the unconscious mind as to what governs BP, and by extension, other businesses and organizations, is a bizarre and strange way of looking at circumstances. But then again, this has come from the cradle of the failed California experiment, which embraces this type of mysticism.