David M. Scienceman

Who is David M. Scienceman?

David M. Scienceman is an Australian scientist; he changed his name from David Slade by deed poll in 1972. McGhee wrote that his change of name from Slade to Scienceman was an experiment to create a movement of scientifically aware politicians. In a world dominated by scientific achievements and problems, Slade believed that there should be a political party that represented the scientific point of view.

Scienceman has a mathematics and physics degree and a PhD in chemical engineering from Sydney University, on a scholarship from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission.

At a meeting of the World Future Society in 1976, a group of American feminists told him his new name was unbearably sexist. He saw their point and decided that a better title for members of the Scientific Party would be "Sciencemate".

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