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Professors advise students to drop class if they question climate change
2016-09-01
[Wash Times] DENVER -- The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs is coming under fire after three professors warned their class that there would be no debate on human-caused climate change and that any students who disagree should drop the course.

The professors, who are team-teaching the fall online course Medical Humanities in the Digital Age, issued the memo after some students expressed concerns about the first online lecture on climate change, according to the College Fix, which obtained a copy of the email.

"The point of departure for this course is based on the scientific premise that human induced climate change is valid and occurring," said the professors. "We will not, at any time, debate the science of climate change, nor will the ’other side’ of the climate change debate be taught or discussed in this course."

"Opening up a debate that 98% of climate scientists unequivocally agree to be a nondebate would detract from the central concerns of environment and health addressed in this course," they added.

For those who disagree with the course’s premise, "we respectfully ask that you do not take this course, as there are options within the Humanities program for face to face this semester and online next."
Posted by:Besoeker

#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  

#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  

#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  

#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  

#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  

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

#15  â€œIt 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  

#14  â€œThe 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  

#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  

#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  

#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  

#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  

#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  

#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  

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

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

/s
Posted by: regular joe   2016-09-01 10:49  

#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  

#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  

#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  

#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  

#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  

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