Talk:International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

message: This page sounds like it was written by an IIASA representative. It sounds as though it is written from the viewpoint of the IIASA rather than from an external viewpoint.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.173.215.82 (talk) 15:06, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I wholeheartedly agree. Some of the writing, especially in the lead, sounds like marketing speak. I don't know how this article went this long without being tagged.  (he/him | talk) 14:44, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biased Writing 

message: The IIASA was set up at the joint suggestion of Oskar Morgenstern and Khruschev's nephew, Gvishniani (?) damn, I'm ashamed of not being exactly sure of his name, to serve as a back channel between the Eisenhower Administration and the Kremlin -- at a time when  both sides of the cold war knew the dangers of accidental miscommunication, but both were inhibited by their own hard-liners.
 
Coincidentally, Roger Levien, who was later a co-director of the IIASA (with Anatol Rapoport, later of University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and then, because of his opposition to the Vietnam War, of University of Toronto), Levien, as a RAND Corporation contractor set up the first "red telephone," the almost-direct teletype and later telephone connection between the Oval Office and the Kremlin.
 
Everything in the article about the IIASA doing useful work in systems analysis was pretty much true by the 1980s or 1990s, and they still do good work of that kind today.  I particularly like the style of their "Let's increase the standing lumber of Russia by a hundred billion tons in the next hundred years" project.
 
DavidLJ
david.lloydjones@gmail.com
June 3, 2013.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Хенкин,_Кирилл_Викторович writes in his autobiography-cum-biography of his friend Willie Fisher aka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Abel "The Upside-down Hunter" (1980) that IIASA was founded by USSR as an influence operation, same as the Prague-based magazine "Problems of Peace and Socialism" ("World Marxist Review"), and operated in a similar manner.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.249.121.125 (talk) 20:02, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rather Misses the Whole Point. 

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message: There has been a bit of an edit war over an unreferenced "Controversy" section over the past few weeks, but in any case WP:BLP takes precedence as this is extremely contentious material about a living person, so it should never have been added (or restored) without reliable sources that justify its inclusion. Policy dictates that such material should be removed immediately and that it's up to the editor who is seeking to restore the material to provide the reliable sources to merit inclusion. I have just removed it for this reason, and if anyone wants to include it in the article, I strongly recommend looking for reliable sources first, and perhaps it would be more appropriate to integrate the content within other sections rather than a stand-alone controversy section. DanCherek (talk) 06:56, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversy section