Prof Wants to Jail “Climate Change Deniers”
File this story under it’s not fascism when we do it.
Michael Schaus of Townhall reported.
Professor Wants Climate Change “Deniers” Thrown in Jail
An assistant philosophy professor at Rochester Institute of Technology has proposed a bold plan to settle the debate on Global Warming. Lawrence Torcello wrote an essay suggesting that scientists who fail to fall in line with global warming alarmists should be charged with criminal negligence, and possibly even be thrown in jail. Nothing screams academic freedom like a little intellectual Fascism. Right?
When it comes to global warming, much of the public remains in denial about a set of facts that the majority of scientists clearly agree on.
Well, Larry (can we call him Larry?), it might surprise you – an assistant professor of philosophy – to learn that science is not a democratic study. Skepticism, opposition, and deviation from the adopted narrative are more responsible for scientific discovery than blind allegiance to any prevailing theory. And, quite frankly, the theory of anthropogenic global warming has been delegitimized by some of its greatest proponents… Most scientists would agree that it becomes increasingly difficult to believe in a theory that has routinely failed to produce any moderately accurate models or predictions.
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Heretics must be sent to the gulags!
Science is tested and the conclusion defended. Climate science uses manipulated date from warped experiments and the conclusions are serving an agenda. What are they really hiding? Science that can’t be defended isn’t going to come true by silencing the challengers. The more the climate people say shut up, the more bogus their science is.
Most scientists would agree that it becomes increasingly difficult to believe in a theory that has routinely failed to produce any moderately accurate models or predictions.
Not if they know what’s good for them.
“Nice little grant project you have there. God forbid anything should happen to it.”
It is odd how people with no scientific qualifications feel they can expound about what science is, or what scientists believe, or any of a number of equally unlikely things.
But this is all territory familiar to our totalitarian left. Stalin purged the Soviet Union of competent scientists who pointed our that while Lysenkoism may have been official State dogma, is simply wasn’t science. Now, Torcello and his fellow neo-Stalinists are hot to do the same to opponents of Progressive Warmunism.