[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."
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Note that it's not actual science profs making this edict, but migrants from the philosophy department.
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09/01/2016 6:16 Comments ||
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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.
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Not sure I appreciate how climate change plays into medical humanities. But maybe I could take the course on line.
Posted by: Bobby ||
09/01/2016 7:37 Comments ||
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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.
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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. ||
09/01/2016 10:02 Comments ||
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You don't question a zealot's religion. That's just good manners.
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Posted by: regular joe ||
09/01/2016 10:49 Comments ||
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Check out their pictures - homely looking bunch of butch dykes professers.
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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.
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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.
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“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 ||
09/01/2016 13:13 Comments ||
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“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
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So from the class Title, I can assume this is about how to use Webmd.
Posted by: Charles ||
09/01/2016 13:20 Comments ||
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Once you start using affirmative action & collegiality as criteria for tenure, the game is over.
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 ||
09/01/2016 13:37 Comments ||
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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.
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"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.
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[New American] Hundreds of American and British prisoners of war held captive by North Korea at the time of the Korean Armistice Agreement in 1953 that ended hostilities were never released and likely suffered years of inhumane treatment in POW camps. An August 23 article in the Daily Star, a British tabloid with a circulation of 424,000, speculated that some of these POWs "could still be alive at the mercy of maniacal Jong-un."
Any POWs held in 1953 would now be at least 80 years old.
The Daily Star article cited "top secret documents" that provided evidence of hundreds of soldiers, including British, were "abandoned by governments who wrote them off as missing in action."
The primary document cited in the Daily Star article was a U.S. Air Force memorandum prepared for the director of the CIA on March 16, 1954, by Air Force Chief of Staff Nathan Twining, who later became chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The memo stated, in part:
1. An unknown but apparently substantial number of U.S. military personnel captured in the course of the Korean War are still being held prisoners by the Communist Forces. These individuals will not necessarily be retained by North Korea or Manchuria, but be held elsewhere within the Soviet orbit....
4. It is therefore requested that requirements be placed on appropriate operating organizations for clandestine and covert action to locate, identify, and recover those U.S. prisoners who are still in Communist custody.
The Daily Star writer noted that there is no evidence to suggest that General Twining’s mandate to locate, identify, and recover the POWs ever happened. The report then went on to cite and display a top secret CIA "live sightings report" from 1997 that stated: "There have been numerous report of both American and British POWs in North Korea. One of the most compelling reports received over the years was a sighting reported to DoD by a Romanian in 17 Feb 1988."
The article went on to refer the book American Trophies by investigative historian Mark Souter, which was about the abandonment of American POWs. Sauter told Daily Star Online: "The evidence shows allied POWs from Korea, reportedly including some Brits, were kept by the communists after the Korean War. Reports are continuing to escape from North Korea of Caucasian POWs who are still alive."
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Two grown sons of an American who defected to North Korea during the Korean war. One is a high ranking officer there and both have starred in N. Korean films.
#2
I knew a couple of fellows who were assigned to the DoD POW/MIA effort in the Pentagon many years ago. The closer they came to the truth, the harder their superiors isolated them and pushed them away. Eventually they were reassigned to other duties.
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Watched the Senate Select committee hearings on POW/MIA years ago. You had to be crazy not to be made crazy by what came out.
As a friend of mine remarked, how come Chuck Norris and Sly Stallone knew this stuff twenty years earlier?
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"I believe that presidents up through and including George Bush have known Americans were left alive and in violation of the law, these high officials and certain of their appointed subordinates have continued and perpetrated a cover up of this reality."
[Daily Caller] LONGVIEW, Wash. -- In the morning, the industrial site nestled along the Columbia River is eerily quiet. 'Unexpectedly' to some possibly. 'Don't cry for me Argentina.'
Lori Black is one of the first employees to arrive most days. She knows the site well, has worked there for 12 years. Five years ago, Millennium Bulk Terminals acquired the 540-acre site. Officials planned to convert an old aluminium smelter into a profitable industrial export facility. They restored a wetland area in one part of the site to show their commitment and began the permit process to export coal.
That was four years ago.
Today, there are more birds and fish on the site than workers, and the coal terminal project has yet to be approved. The project’s environmental approval process is nearing the longest in the history of Washington state.
[The Hill] President Obama’s former physician said that he believes Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton should have a neurological examination due to her history of brain injury.
During an interview on CNN, Dr. David Scheiner argued that Clinton’s note from her doctor isn’t enough. The letter details that Clinton had follow-up testing in 2013 that showed a full recovery from a concussion and that she tested negative for clotting disorders.
"I think she should have had a neurological examination, a thorough neurological examination in 2016," Scheiner said Tuesday night. "We know what happens to football players who have had concussions, how they begin to lose some of their cognitive ability. I think both of them should release their records."
Scheiner also critiqued Donald Trump’s health, saying he believes the GOP nominee needs to release real medical records that include information like height and weight. He also panned Trump’s doctor's note, which the doctor said was written in five minutes.
"I think you need real details, I think you need actual medical records," he continued. "I’d like to know his height and weight. He looks a little bit overweight to me."
The interview comes as Trump has been calling into question Clinton’s health, saying earlier this month that she "lacks the mental and physical stamina to take on" the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Breitbart News, the conservative site whose executive editor recently joined Trump's campaign as its CEO, has also published stories about these rumors.
Last week, an NBC report revealed that Trump’s long-time doctor spent five minutes writing his letter last year that claimed the real estate mogul would be the healthiest president ever elected and that he wrote it while a limo sent by Trump’s campaign was outside the doctor’s office. Following that report, Trump on Sunday said that both candidates "should release detailed medical records."
"This is arguably one of the most important things Dr. Bornstein ever wrote and he showed absolutely no concern for the public to whom it was really meant to read," Scheiner said in the Tuesday interview.
[PJ] An American Muslim who investigated the historical evidence for Islam and Christianity discovered an astounding truth: the evidence is "entirely incompatible" with Islam, while it supports the three greatest arguments for Christianity.
"It was not just that history did not support the traditional narratives of Islam, but rather that history proved to be entirely incompatible with Islamic origins," writes Nabeel Qureshi (emphasis his), author of the book No God But One: Allah or Jesus? A Former Muslim Investigates the Evidence for Islam & Christianity. The book, released Tuesday, provides a deep investigation of the key differences between the two faiths and delves into the historical evidence (or lack thereof) for each.
Qureshi investigates five basic claims, each disputed by either side. He asks the question of whether there is enough evidence that "an objective observer" would conclude in favor of Christianity or Islam. The arguments for Christianity: that Jesus died on the cross, that his disciples believed he rose from the dead, and that he claimed to be God. The arguments for Islam: that Muhammad is a prophet of Allah, and that the Quran is inspired by Allah.
As the Quran is the "why" of the Islamic faith, I will begin there, and move to Muhammad. Then, I will dive into Qureshi's arguments for Christianity.
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Is Ishmael the illegitimate son of Abraham and Hagar in this version?
Does this interpretation of the Islamic religion include paying jizya, slavery, dhimmitude, supremacy over others, and murder of enemies (anyone who disagrees with Islam)?
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[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.
"I believe that presidents up through and including George Bush have known Americans were left alive and in violation of the law, these high officials and certain of their appointed subordinates have continued and perpetrated a cover up of this reality."
[PJ] An American Muslim who investigated the historical evidence for Islam and Christianity discovered an astounding truth: the evidence is "entirely incompatible" with Islam, while it supports the three greatest arguments for Christianity.
