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2016-09-01 -Land of the Free
Professors advise students to drop class if they question climate change
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Posted by Besoeker 2016-09-01 05:36|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ]  Top

#1 Note that it's not actual science profs making this edict, but migrants from the philosophy department.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2016-09-01 06:16||   2016-09-01 06:16|| Front Page Top

#2 It's sadly amusing to see such blinkered dogma and willful ignorance out of a philosophy department. Especially the bit about not being willing to debate them.
Posted by Silentbrick 2016-09-01 06:48||   2016-09-01 06:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Not sure I appreciate how climate change plays into medical humanities. But maybe I could take the course on line.
Posted by Bobby 2016-09-01 07:37||   2016-09-01 07:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Just remember this when they whine about 'academic freedom' when their turn comes to be shut out. Free and open inquiry stopped there. It is not an institution of higher learning. It's just another diploma mill so the people in Human Resources don't have to really work to determine if someone is qualified to be employed in public commerce or service.
Posted by Procopius2k 2016-09-01 09:31||   2016-09-01 09:31|| Front Page Top

#5 WHAT climate change??? The climate isn't one damned bit different from what it was when I was born 67 years ago.

Yet we have hoards of idiots today running around screaming like Chicken Little over an imagined threat touted by dishonest Leftists for the purpose of convincing said idiots that greater government control over our lives is an absolute imperative, lest we all die horrible deaths by drowning or overheating.

More CO2 in the atmosphere means better crops. End of story.
Posted by Dave D. 2016-09-01 10:02||   2016-09-01 10:02|| Front Page Top

#6 You don't question a zealot's religion. That's just good manners.

/s
Posted by regular joe 2016-09-01 10:49||   2016-09-01 10:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Check out their pictures - homely looking bunch of butch dykes professers.
Posted by Raj 2016-09-01 11:03||   2016-09-01 11:03|| Front Page Top

#8 wtf is medical humanities?

One Flew Over the Cuckoos' Nest?
Operation?

Oh, medical humanities in the digital age.
wtf is that?

Oh. How to sell Obamacare.
I guess if students are encouraged to drop the class, then the class is by definition unnecessary.
Posted by swksvolFF 2016-09-01 11:12||   2016-09-01 11:12|| Front Page Top

#9 It is pretty simple. The prospective students either boycott the class due to irrational starting assumptions - or they "buy in" to those delusional assumptions. QED.
Posted by Lone Ranger 2016-09-01 11:17||   2016-09-01 11:17|| Front Page Top

#10 The professors are pretty sure they aren't smart enough to win the debate so they just cut it off before it can start.
Posted by rjschwarz 2016-09-01 11:34||   2016-09-01 11:34|| Front Page Top

#11 First he isn't a professor, he is at best a stand up philosopher, more like a propagandist, but without being able to handle questions all he is, is a soother.

I mean, say what you will about the tenants of national socialism, at least its an ethos.
Posted by swksvolFF 2016-09-01 11:56||   2016-09-01 11:56|| Front Page Top

#12 Maybe the professor should be dropped because he is a dogmatic elitist academic leftist tyrant who is not open to differing opinions or debate.
Posted by JohnQC 2016-09-01 12:12||   2016-09-01 12:12|| Front Page Top

#13 I think you are a small man who feels a rush of power in his belly and enjoys it far too much, Keeve. Stop talking and listen.
-Ro Laren
Posted by swksvolFF 2016-09-01 12:38||   2016-09-01 12:38|| Front Page Top

#14 “The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously." --Hubert Humphrey, 38th U.S. vice president
Posted by Bobby 2016-09-01 13:13||   2016-09-01 13:13|| Front Page Top

#15 “It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning." --Agnes Repplier, American essayist
Posted by Bobby 2016-09-01 13:16||   2016-09-01 13:16|| Front Page Top

#16 So from the class Title, I can assume this is about how to use Webmd.
Posted by Charles 2016-09-01 13:20||   2016-09-01 13:20|| Front Page Top

#17 Once you start using affirmative action & collegiality as criteria for tenure, the game is over.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-09-01 13:30||   2016-09-01 13:30|| Front Page Top

#18 From Wiki:

Medical humanities can be defined as an interdisciplinary, and increasingly international endeavor that draws on the creative and intellectual strengths of diverse disciplines, including literature, art, creative writing, drama, film, music, philosophy, ethical decision making, anthropology, and history, in pursuit of medical educational goals. The humanistic sciences are relevant when multiple people’s perspectives on issues are compiled together to answer questions or even create questions. The arts can provide additional perspective to the sciences.


I must say, in 35 years of being a doctor, I've not heard anyone take "medical humanities" seriously except in the most abstract way. It's more a way for the artsy-types to horn in on the money tree at a medical school. We do have medical ethics groups (useful), and there are any number of physicians interested in medical history and literature.

But the idea that we'd use all the things listed above to tell us how to practice medicine? In their dreams. I ignore these people, as do most doctors.
Posted by Steve White 2016-09-01 13:37||   2016-09-01 13:37|| Front Page Top

#19 How would medical humanities even cross-over with Global Warming in a serious discussion? I suspect dear professor intends to pontificate more than a little.
Posted by rjschwarz 2016-09-01 13:47||   2016-09-01 13:47|| Front Page Top

#20 How would medical humanities even cross-over with Global Warming in a serious discussion?

Probably when I'm lighting a fart in their class.

Fun fact - that's the first thing I learned in college. Long live the blue flame!
Posted by Raj 2016-09-01 14:28||   2016-09-01 14:28|| Front Page Top

#21 "How would medical humanities even cross-over with Global Warming in a serious discussion?"

It wouldn't, #19 rj. It's impossible to seriously discuss either "medical humanities" or Gerbil Worming. Except they're serious about shutting down true discussion and shutting up anyone with a brain.
Posted by Barbara 2016-09-01 20:23||   2016-09-01 20:23|| Front Page Top

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