POSTED June 18, 2009

Biosphere 2 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ⚓

"Further damaging the credentials of the participants, Marc Cooper wrote[28] that “the group that built, conceived, and directs the Biosphere project is not a group of high-tech researchers on the cutting edge of science but a clique of recycled theater performers that evolved out of an authoritarian – and decidedly non-scientific – personality cult”. He was referring to the Synergia Ranch in New Mexico, an outpost of the Institute of Ecotechnics where indeed many of the Biospherians did practice improv theater under John Allen’s leadership, and began to develop the ideas behind Biosphere 2.[29]"