David M. Scienceman - "Scienceman"

"Scienceman"

J. McGhee (1990) wrote that the change of name from David Slade to David Scienceman was an experiment to create a movement of scientifically aware politicians. In a world dominated by scientific achievements and problems, the then Dr. Slade believed that there should be a political party that represented the scientific point of view (Cadzow 1984). He envisaged a Scientific Party, where the members would be required to have mastery of one easily available, readable and comprehensible book of general science (ibid). People who did so would need an identifying title, and so the then Dr. Slade proposed the title of "Scienceman", and changed his name accordingly in an experiment to familiarise people with the name, and to gauge its popular appeal.