Post by tolpuddlemartyr on May 21, 2011 5:19:36 GMT -5
Found this on The Intersection and literally facepalmed:
The guy behind this batshittery is one Dr Jeffrey Barke, a medical doctor who is no more qualified to judge differing views on climate change than your average climate scientist is to prescribe medicine, and he describes himself as apretentious dick libertarian.
A persecuted libertarian who knows his stuff because he's read opinions, science even.
Why oh why America did someone decide that the curriculum at high schools should be decided by parents? I respect parents but respectfully - parents can be completely misinformed. Bringing a child into the world does not automatically give you expertise in every subject taught at a secondary level.
I thought the whole idea of secondary education is that you get people with at least a bachelor level of educational expertise learned from more expert professors who actually know their stuff. What's the fucking point if all of this time and effort to garner knowledge can be overridden by some misinformed or deliberately ignorant halfwit on a school board on a power trip?
the Los Alamitos Unified School District, where board members decided that “different views” on global warming must be included in an environmental science class.
The guy behind this batshittery is one Dr Jeffrey Barke, a medical doctor who is no more qualified to judge differing views on climate change than your average climate scientist is to prescribe medicine, and he describes himself as a
…anybody who challenges global warming comes under a firestorm of criticism and demagoguery from those who are true zealots. So it’s almost impossible for a scientist to come out with facts and evidence against global warming without being personally attacked and demagogued. Plimer and Lomborg are just two examples of very prominent, reputable scientists who are unfortunately just getting hammered by the media and quite personally at times. I’m not good at remembering names and details, but those two stand out because they are in the media and I’ve read some of their work. I read through the literature all the time – both from those on the right and the left – and, to me at least, it’s fairly clear that the science is not settled. And the fact that I’m being attacked personally for my beliefs is really kind of sad.
A persecuted libertarian who knows his stuff because he's read opinions, science even.
I’m not motivated to question global warming because I’m a libertarian or conservative. I question it simply because I’ve read opinions. I’ve read science. It’s just my personal belief. I’m a medical doctor. I’m not an environmental scientist, but I’m smart enough to read articles and decipher opinions from fact.
Why oh why America did someone decide that the curriculum at high schools should be decided by parents? I respect parents but respectfully - parents can be completely misinformed. Bringing a child into the world does not automatically give you expertise in every subject taught at a secondary level.
I thought the whole idea of secondary education is that you get people with at least a bachelor level of educational expertise learned from more expert professors who actually know their stuff. What's the fucking point if all of this time and effort to garner knowledge can be overridden by some misinformed or deliberately ignorant halfwit on a school board on a power trip?
