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11-27-2009, 07:48 AM
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I just checked Inside Higher Ed - no story; degreeinfo - not comments; degreediscussion - no comments. The biggest case of academic fraud ever that could have ultimately cost trillions of dollars and no-one has an opinion or even an acknowledgement. Do they see the grant money drying up before their eyes? They may have no soul but they must have a pulse.
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It's easy for big brother[/quote] to switch from dr. John Bear, the all-american basher of degree mills...to John Klempner, the Jewish-American ruthless owner of several degree mills...or maybe some ethics committee may decide that having a second look at a doctoral dissertation written by fifteen individuals is worth it after all...turn the coin of Thomas Chip White, the valiant valet of the accreditation cartel, and find a gay porn king...hey! Are we sure there isn't some fiscal, abuse, rape or decency law, statute or practice
he may have violated? Are we really sure in his extensive 'research' on asian massage parlors, Gregg DesElms never committed any criminal offense? Isn't his offering his services to the very young members of the deMolay's fraternity worth having a second look?
Etc etc.
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Dennis Ruhl Wrote:I just checked Inside Higher Ed - no story; degreeinfo - not comments; degreediscussion - no comments. The biggest case of academic fraud ever that could have ultimately cost trillions of dollars and no-one has an opinion or even an acknowledgement. Do they see the grant money drying up before their eyes? They may have no soul but they must have a pulse.
Reading between the lines I guess that you are saying that physics professor George Gollin hasn't bothered commenting on outrageous scientific fraud. Isn't that suprising considering that Gollin is a scientist of some note? Wouldn't you guess that Gollin would be all for only the highest standards when it comes to scientific research?
I'm not suprised by Bear/Klempner. He never held a real academic position and besides, he's about 80 years old anyway. Who cares what he thinks?
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Obama and the CRUddites of Britain
Quote:December 01, 2009
By James Lewis
The CRU crew of liars and scientific frauds in the U.K. have been driving the climate fraud campaign for years. They shaped the corrupt and ridiculous IPCC U.N. report, designed to empower the Green corruptocracy as the new international ruling class. Now they have been finally and devastatingly exposed to the world -- including the British media, the BBC (reluctantly), the Guardian, the Times and the Telegraph, and the Daily Mail, the whole thing smells like a huge scandal that will bring down the (socialist) Labour Party. The one thing the Brits still pride themselves on is their world-class science. The CRU crusade shows that science, too, has become pervasively corrupt and sick in New Socialist Britain.
By flying to the rescue in Copenhagen, Obama is actually joining the exposed fraudsters, presumably to rescue his good buds in the Chicago Climate Exchange, which depends for survival on the passage of cap-and-trade legislation. The Chicago Way is going international, and Obama is its Prophet. All Hail Obama!
So Copenhagen, here we come! And the whole world that's been watching this -- which includes all the English speakers on the web, maybe a billion people who can now read the BBC's and the Guardian's own confessions -- can now watch Obama tear off the mask and appear as Obama Capone. Well, it's justice on a grand scale. This is Watergate for the whole world.
The 19th-century Luddites tried to destroy the best technology of their time, the early Industrial Revolution. They took sledgehammers to the new, steam-driven weaving looms in order to destroy an unprecedented blessing for all of humanity. If you're wearing machine-woven socks today, you can thank the early Industrial Revolution and the defeat of the Luddites.
Today we have the CRUddites -- the phony "scientists" at the CRU, the so-called "Climate Research Unit" at East Anglia University in Britain -- who have now been proven by their own e-mails to be doing Luddite pseudoscience. They might as well be taking sledgehammers to the world's prosperity and well-being. Just like the Luddites, the CRUddites are trying to kill the greatest engine of well-being that humans have ever possessed, one which depends totally on safe oil, coal, and natural gas -- to heat our homes, run our cars, transport our food, and generate our electricity. The destructive spirit of sabotage is alive and well today, and it is living in "climate modeling" and Green Stalinism. These people want to steal, sabotage, and tax all the good things in life. They claim to love humanity, but they hate real people.
Back in Chicago, Obama was closely associated with the people who run the Chicago Climate Exchange, a stock market scheme that depends on artificial, government-created scarcities of carbon-based fuels. Note that except for nuclear and geothermal, all our fuels are carbon-based. It's the whole ball of wax. No sane person is expecting "novel sources of green energy" to actually add anything soon, or even ever. So Obama is in this up to his crew cut. He just sank below the waves.
The British media -- even the Leftocratic Guardian -- are finally writing about the worst scientific scandal in history. The BBC is beating a shamefaced retreat with its tail between its legs. The Australian media are way ahead. Five ruling Members of Parliament have resigned in disgust, in a classic public gesture of "no confidence" in a parliamentary system. It may unravel the whole Aussie governing party, as it is meant to do.
The Anglosphere is beginning to assert itself and speak with real rage at all the Leftist corruption in the world.
Climategate is the biggest worldwide conspiracy since Comrade Jozef Stalin ran all the Communist Parties from the Kremlin. It's actually being carried out by the New Stalinists. With the exception of Fox News and maybe USA Today, the U.S. media are still dragging their butts far behind the blogs and even behind the U.K. media. Still, any English-speaker around the world can read the Anglosphere blogs and the U.K. media on the web. There's no communication barrier anymore. This cat's out of the bag, this chicken has come home to roost -- and there is no way to put the cat or the chicken back to where it was four weeks ago.
The Guardian's George Monbiot, the biggest green journo in Britain, turns out to be an honest man. (Miracle of miracles!)
Writing in the Guardian, Monbiot said,
Quote:I have seldom felt so alone. ... Confronted with crisis, most of the environmentalists I know have gone into denial. The emails hacked from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, they say, are a storm in a tea cup, no big deal, exaggerated out of all recognition. ... the emails are very damaging.
Oh, but Mr. Monbiot, this is just the beginning of a worldwide unraveling of that wool sock. In New Zealand, the raw data has been released, and by re-analyzing the raw data, the whole climate scam has been definitively shown to be a fraud over there. It will happen with the CRUddites in the U.K.: Even destroying their raw data won't save them.
In science, raw data is like the original records of bank transactions: It shows the ground truth. Skeptics and auditors can always analyze raw data to find out what's been lied about. Scientists destroying raw data gathered at immense taxpayer expense, data which is supposed to be "proof positive" of climate change, is like the banks destroying their account records and then asking the world to just take their word for it. We now know about the CRU's cheating, lying, and intimidation from their own words in their own e-mails, and destruction of evidence for fraud compounds the criminal case for fraud. Only fraudsters need to destroy their raw data. The IRS would not allow any of us to destroy our credit card records. Neither should the scientific world allow its own politically powerful liars, frauds, and thugs to get away with destroying the ground truth of their work.
After the exposure of CRUddites Michael Mann and Phil Jones, only suckers and total dummies will fall for so-called "climate science" because the CRUddites have just explained that -- oopsie! -- they wiped their original data. Just to save space, dontchaknow. Well, bank auditors wouldn't accept that, and neither should the taxpayers who have supported these fat cats their whole lives.
Climate fraud may be centered in the CRU, but it exists all over the world. John Holdren in the White House has probably been helping it along, as has James Hansen at NASA. They are both Leftist fanatics who falsely lay claim to the honorable characterization of "scientist." And of course, Al Gore, during his "reorganizing government" shenanigans as V.P. during the Clinton years, was helping to spread and fund the humongous, worldwide, neo-Stalinist fraud. Al Gore's daddy was funded by KGB paymaster Armand Hammer, Jr., who made the Gores rich with oil and coal shares. Al, Jr. just carried on Daddy's modus operandi.
This is just the bare beginning. Science magazine carries regular stories about some scientific fraudster being caught and fired. But Science magazine itself is in the bag for climate fraud. Will they apply the same standards to themselves? Certainly a lot of powerful science politicians will have to resign, or else commit hara-kiri in the garden. Many of them may be criminally liable, and all of them are knowing enablers of massive fraud. They do not deserve honorable positions in universities and famous science journals, which they infiltrated with malice aforethought. The bloodletting has only begun, and you can be sure the phone lines are humming as a thousand fraudsters around the world desperately try to save their hides. That is presumably why Obama went to Copenhagen -- to squeeze the last little bits of political power and safety out of the crumbling fraud.
We know -- because Robert Reich has told us outright -- that Mob-O-Care is going to end up killing people just as the NHS does in Britain. Said Reich of medical care for the elderly, "It's too expensive, so we're going to let you die." Are the liberals compassionate? Well, they are letting people die already -- by cutting half a trillion dollars from Medicare, and ultimately by rationing all medical care by artificially forcing prices down below cost. The CATO Institute has just determined that Obama's Medi-Scam will cost not just one trillion dollars over ten years, but six trillion.
Meanwhile, Obama's cap-and-trade will create artificial scarcities by putting an arbitrary lid on energy usage and taxing whatever energy you do use -- meaning everything you do.
These are truly malevolent people -- destructive saboteurs, corruptocrats who gain money and power by destroying both good science and the hugely beneficial technology based on it. Without credibility, science dies, just as the Big Lie Media are dying. Don't think they didn't know all that, and that the media's own malevolent plots were not intended to wreak real damage on the lives of millions of innocent people. These people are Stalinists, and as Stalin said, "One man's death is a tragedy, a million a statistic." That is how these people think and act. Comrade Stalin personally went in for statistics big time.
Now the fraudocrats will fall out with each other. It is best for them to destroy each other, as Gorbachev destroyed the Communist Party of the USSR by trying to save it from its own worst excesses. That house of cards fell apart. So will this one, and it may well take the Obama administration with it. Obama's flight to Copenhagen is just the first step.
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Do Smoking Guns Cause Global Warming, Too?
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by Ann Coulter
12/02/2009
As we now know (and by "we" I mean "everyone with access to the Internet"), the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) has just been caught ferociously manipulating the data about the Earth's temperature.
Recently leaked e-mails from the "scientists" at CRU show that, when talking among themselves, they forthrightly admit to using a "trick" to "hide the decline" in the Earth's temperature since 1960 -- as one e-mail says. Still another describes their manipulation of the data thus: "[W]e can have a proper result, but only by including a load of garbage!"
Am I just crazy from the heat or were they trying to deceive us?
Global warming cheerleaders in the media were quick to defend the scandalous e-mails, explaining that, among scientists, the words "trick," "hide the decline" and "garbage" do not mean "trick," "hide the decline" and "garbage." These words actually mean "onion soup," "sexual submissive" and "Gary, Ind."
(Boy, it must be great to be able to redefine words right in the middle of a debate.)
Also, of course, the defenders said that the words needed to be placed "in context" -- the words' check was in the mail, and they'd like to spend more time with their families.
I have placed the words in context and it turns out what they mean is: gigantic academic fraud.
The leaked e-mail exchanges also show the vaunted "scientists" engaging in a possibly criminal effort to delete their own smoking-gun e-mails in response to a Freedom of Information request. Next, the fanatics will be telling us that "among scientists," this behavior does not indicate knowledge of guilt.
If I recall correctly, their next move should be to fire the special prosecutor late Saturday night.
These e-mails aren't a tempest in a teapot. They are evidence of pervasive fraud by a massively influential institution that has dominated news coverage of global warming.
CRU was regularly cited as the leading authority on "global climate analysis" -- including by the very news outlets that are burying the current scandal, such as The New York Times and The Washington Post. The CRU alone received more than $23 million in taxpayer funds for its work on global warming.
Having claimed to have collected the most complete data on the Earth's temperature for the last half century, the CRU's summary of that data was used by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for its 2007 report demanding that we adopt a few modest lifestyle changes, such as abolishing modern technology, reverting to hunter/gatherer status and taxing ourselves into servitude.
But then last weekend -- in the middle of the "Let's Cook the Books!" e-mail scandal -- the CRU said that all its data on the Earth's temperature since 1960 had been irretrievably "lost." (Although I suspect "overcooked" might be a more apt term.)
The way this episode is unfolding, the environmentalists may be forced to drop their phantom threat of global warming and go back to the phantom threat of global cooling.
Most disturbingly, the CRU-affiliated "scientists" were caught red-handed conspiring to kill the careers and reputations of scientists who dissented from the religion of global warming. Indignant that scientific journals were publishing papers skeptical of global warming, the cult members plotted to get editors ousted and the publications discredited.
This sabotage of global warming dissenters may be more galling than their manipulation of the data. Until now, the global warming cult's sole argument has been to demand that everyone shut up in response to the "scientific consensus" that human activity was causing global warming.
That's their idea of a free and open debate.
It's always the same thing with primitive people -- voodoo practitioners, rain dancers and liberals. In lieu of facts, debate and a weighing of the evidence, religious fanatics respond to all counterarguments by invoking a higher authority: the witch doctor, a "scientific consensus," "the Constitution" or "historians are agreed."
Liberals won't tell us why Congress passed a law outlawing incandescent lightbulbs by 2014 -- a bill solemnly delivered to the president in a Prius hybrid (making it the slowest-moving bill in U.S. history). Instead, they tell us there's a "scientific consensus" that we have to use fluorescent lightbulbs or we'll all die.
They won't tell us why Ten Commandments monuments must be stripped from every public space in America. Instead, they tell us "the Constitution" says so (according to the high priests who interpret it to mean things the document doesn't remotely say).
They won't tell us what Sen. Joe McCarthy lied about. They say: Historians are agreed that McCarthy was a liar. (These are the same historians who also stated as fact that "few American Communists were spies" -- until decrypted Soviet cables proved that the Communist Party was awash with Soviet spies.)
This is precisely what liberals accuse Christians of doing, but which Christians never do. We don't cite the Bible as authority -- and then refuse to let anyone read it. We certainly don't claim to have "lost" it, so you can't check for yourself. But that's exactly what the CRU has done with its secret data allegedly showing a warming Earth.
Also, biblical data on the great flood and Noah's ark have held up remarkably well.
Even if the Earth were warming -- which apparently it is not -- the idea that humans using energy-efficient lightbulbs would alter the temperature of the globe is approximately as plausible as the Aztecs' belief that they were required to wrench the beating heart out of living, breathing humans in order to keep the sun on its path.
Sadly, the "human sacrifice deniers" lost the argument to Aztec CRU scientists, who explained that there was a "scientific consensus" on the benefits of ritual murder.
But at least the Aztecs only slaughtered tens of thousands of humans in the name of "climate change." The global warming cultists want us all dead.
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Climategate Update
Quote:12/02/2009
Despite universities beginning to suspend researchers, Congressional Democrats refuse to have a hearing to investigate research fraud and the destruction of documents. Given the amount of government money going to this research and given that the Congress has been debating spending trillions of dollars on Cap & Trade and other regulations, one would think that they have some duty to make sure that this research isn't tainted. The Obama administration was also defending the global warming claims.
In the first Capitol Hill airing of the issue, House Republicans Wednesday read excerpts from at least eight of the e-mails, saying they showed the world needs to re-examine experts' claims that the science on warming is settled. One e-mail from 2003 was by John Holdren, then of Harvard University and now the president's science adviser.
The exploding controversy led Phil Jones to step aside as head of the climate research unit at the University of East Anglia, the source of the e-mail exchanges. The university is investigating the matter. Penn State University also is looking into e-mails by its own researcher, Michael Mann. House Republicans asked for a separate hearing or investigation into the issue, but were rebuffed by Democrats.
"These e-mails show a pattern of suppression, manipulation and secrecy that was inspired by ideology, condescension and profit," said U.S. Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis. . . . .
The major TV networks are refusing to cover this issue.
ABC didn't cover it. CBS didn't either. And NBC apparently wouldn't go near it.
So the network news broadcasts, by ignoring a growing scandal over evidence of a potential climate cover-up, were scooped by the fake news at Comedy Central.
"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" produced its "reporting" on Climate-gate Tuesday night, when Stewart quipped, “Poor Al Gore. Global warming completely debunked via the very Internet you invented. Oh, oh, the irony!”
Stewart described leaked e-mails from Britain's University of East Anglia, including one referring to a researcher's "trick" to "hide the decline" in some temperature readings in recent decades.
"It's just scientist-speak for using a standard statistical technique — recalibrating data – in order to trick you," Stewart said sarcastically.
Nearly two weeks since news broke of the e-mail scandal, climate change skeptics have gloated; a leading climate scientist has resigned; at least one U.S. lawmaker has called for an investigation, and countless prominent news outlets have deemed the story worthy of major reporting.
Still, according to a report Wednesday morning by the conservative Media Research Center, "none of the broadcast network weekday morning and evening news shows addressed Climate-Gate or the incriminating Jones development. ... This marked 12 days since the information was first uncovered that they have ignored this global scandal."
The Business & Media Institute had just as much trouble finding the networks' Climate-gate coverage.
"An examination of morning and evening news programs on ABC, CBS and NBC since Nov. 20 yielded zero mentions of the scandal, even in the Nov. 25 reports about Obama going to Copenhagen to discuss the need for emissions reductions," the Institute reported Wednesday. . . .
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What's up, little hulkamaniacs? Are you feeling let down?
Come on...I bet my disability cheque that soon you'll be wagging your little flags and rallying to the patriotic call of some of these same quacks, perverts, Barnums and fakirs you now feel are letting you down.
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Ya gotta love the USA. John Stewart has the best news reporting? Sorry I missed it. What should be the biggest news story of the year hasn't been reported at all in Canada. I guess with hard news like Tiger getting his knob polished dominating the airwaves there is simply no room left.
There must be some real journalists working at the networks. The next time I hear journalists go on about their supposed integrity, I might lose my lunch.
I think part of the problem is that the conservatives were caught crawling in bed with the liberals so the truth be damned. Big business has been co-opted to buy and sell imaginary carbon credits sacrificing the middle class in the meantime.
I still wonder where the massive cuts are coming. The vast majority of Canada's piggish energy consumption is to keep us alive at 40 below and provide transportation between our major cities which are hundreds and thousands of miles apart.
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Quote:Global warming cheerleaders in the media were quick to defend the scandalous e-mails, explaining that, among scientists, the words "trick," "hide the decline" and "garbage" do not mean "trick," "hide the decline" and "garbage." These words actually mean "onion soup," "sexual submissive" and "Gary, Ind."
Exactly, you fascist broad...
In the realm of physics it is normal to write a dissertation with fifteen other people as co-authors and use it to earn a degree for one...
Quote:Ya gotta love the USA. John Stewart has the best news reporting? Sorry I missed it. What should be the biggest news story of the year hasn't been reported at all in Canada. I guess with hard news like Tiger getting his knob polished dominating the airwaves there is simply no room left.
I saw a row of Vichy's newsreels from 1940-44. Although the full truth was far from being there in its entirety, I found them overall more accountable and reliable than today's news...hell, they even mentioned Katyn was a soviet crime, that life was hard and that Germans were retreating in Russia...while today they are always winning in Iraq, Aghanistan or whatever oil/opium paradise they invaded last week...and trillions lost in just the last crisis are just a case of sloppy accounting and bad manners, rather than ominous signs of the fateful decline of the post WWII regime...
Mussolini and several high-ranking fascists were shot & hung upside down in a public place so that people could kick their corpses and spit on them...right, after the human & financial disaster they had caused...while today, Ponzi schemers get full police protection so that they may fly abroad on their jets...foreplanned disaster? What disaster? That's an accident...
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