Letter to Emanuel Pastreich I

Something is rotten in the state of Academia I

Letters from Vienna #158

Letter to Emanuel Pastreich I

Something is rotten in the state of Academia I

Dear Emanuel,

I was surprised to see you write: “Yale University where I studied, where I learned so much from thoughtful scholars in a vanished age, has been reduced to a brothel, to a criminal syndicate that promotes lies. This grotesque study (“insights into post-vaccine heart inflammation cases”)[1], no doubt secretly funded by a classified Homeland Security budget, is the last nail in the Yale coffin. Rest in peace!”

A day later I read the words from Darwin K. Hoop (with whom I also correspond): “The rot at Harvard covers the earth in a demonic stench. It’s simply egregious that no one has called for this place to get the “death penalty” the way they used to destroy corrupt football programs at major universities.”

“The very idea that there apparently exist no organized efforts to make it pay for its own eugenicist studies and that it receives billions in federal grants and loans is unfathomable to me. All of the Ivies are class warfare colleges first and foremost, places where the taxes of the many are privatized to serve the interests of the least needy and, certainly, the least deserving. This is a school that is about the enslavement and destruction of the 99% and a veritable temple of Baal for the loyalist/house slave class who want nothing more from their lives than to join this beastly club.”

“The PED program should have been national news for months. Gates’ role in this hasn’t seen the light of day. I’m glad that people are finally grasping Gates’ depopulation agenda, but perhaps two dozen people have the vaguest clue about this longstanding agenda to transform the underclass into mostly sterile, obligate, cognitively attenuated slaves who have been stripped of their human and familial essence. Perhaps it’s too complex and/or psychopathic for most to grasp.”

This “rot in the state of academia” is hardly new.

In 2010 “The Boston Globe” reported: “Harvard University psychologist Marc Hauser — a well-known scientist and author of the book “Moral Minds’’ — is taking a year-long leave after a lengthy internal investigation found evidence of scientific misconduct in his laboratory.”

“The findings have resulted in the retraction of an influential study that he led. “MH accepts responsibility for the error,’’ says the retraction of the study on whether monkeys learn rules, which was published in 2002 in the journal Cognition.”

“Two other journals say they have been notified of concerns in papers on which Hauser is listed as one of the main authors.”

“It is unusual for a scientist as prominent as Hauser — a popular professor and eloquent communicator of science whose work has often been featured on television and in newspapers — to be named in an investigation of scientific misconduct. His research focuses on the evolutionary roots of the human mind.”

“In a letter Hauser wrote this year to some Harvard colleagues, he described the inquiry as painful. The letter, which was shown to the Globe, said that his lab has been under investigation for three years by a Harvard committee, and that evidence of misconduct was found. He alluded to unspecified mistakes and oversights that he had made, and said he will be on leave for the upcoming academic year.”[2]

On the 16^th of November 1999 Professor Phil Jones (Climatic Research Unit
School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia) wrote an email that has since become notorious:

“Dear Ray, Mike and Malcolm,

Once Tim’s got a diagram here we’ll send that either later today or first thing tomorrow.

I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e. from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline. Mike’s series got the annual land and marine values while the other two got April-Sept for NH land N of 20N. The latter two are real for 1999, while the estimate for 1999 for NH combined is +0.44C wrt 61-90. The Global estimate for 1999 with data through Oct is +0.35C cf. 0.57 for 1998.

Thanks for the comments, Ray.

Cheers
Phil”[3]

There have been innumerable examples of academics “massaging the data” such as:

“From: Tom Wigley [...]
To: Phil Jones [...]
Subject: 1940s
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:25:38 -0600
Cc: Ben Santer [...]

Phil,
Here are some speculations on correcting SSTs to partly explain the 1940s warming blip. If you look at the attached plot you will see that the land also shows the 1940s blip (as I’m sure you know).
So, if we could reduce the ocean blip by, say, 0.15 deg.C, then this would be significant for the global mean – but we’d still have to explain the land blip. I’ve chosen 0.15 here deliberately. This still leaves an ocean blip, and I think one needs to have some form of ocean blip to explain the land blip (via either some common forcing, or ocean forcing land, or vice versa, or all of these). When you look at other blips, the land blips are 1.5 to 2 times (roughly) the ocean blips—higher sensitivity plus thermal inertia effects. My 0.15 adjustment leaves things consistent with this, so you can see where I am coming from.
Removing ENSO does not affect this.
It would be good to remove at least part of the 1940s blip, but we are still left with “why the blip”…”[4]

Equally egregious is another email:

“From: Kevin Trenberth
To: Michael Mann
Subject: Re: BBC U-turn on climate
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009
Cc: Stephen H Schneider, Myles Allen, peter stott, “Philip D. Jones”, Benjamin Santer, Tom Wigley, Thomas R Karl, Gavin Schmidt, James Hansen, Michael Oppenheimer

Hi all

Well I have my own article on where the heck is global warming? We are asking that here in Boulder where we have broken records the past two days for the coldest days on record. We had 4 inches of snow. The high the last 2 days was below 30F and the normal is 69F, and it smashed the previous records for these days by 10F. The low was about 18F and also a record low, well below the previous record low.

This is January weather (see the Rockies baseball playoff game was canceled on saturday and then played last night in below freezing weather)…

The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t. The CERES data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate.”[5]

I’ve long been aware of fundamental problems with academia, which is one of the main reasons I never became an academic. I was reminded, for example, of the weaknesses in the “economics” I learned at school when I watched the documentary: “Inside Job”[6], which explored the systematic corruption of the financial services and the conflicts of interest of academic research. I’d suggest that you also read Steve Keen’s: “Debunking Economics”, which is excellent…

Equally compelling and of incredible significance is the book: “The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine” by Jon Jureidini & Leemon B. McHenry. As the authors put it: “The pharmaceutical industry’s responsibility to its shareholders means that priority must be given to their hierarchical power structures, product loyalty, and public relations propaganda over scientific integrity. Although universities have always been elite institutions prone to influence through endowments, they have long laid claim to being guardians of truth and the moral conscience of society. But in the face of inadequate government funding, they have adopted a neo-liberal market approach, actively seeking pharmaceutical funding on commercial terms. As a result, university departments become instruments of industry: through company control of the research agenda and ghostwriting of medical journal articles and continuing medical education, academics become agents for the promotion of commercial products. When scandals involving industry-academe partnership are exposed in the mainstream media, trust in academic institutions is weakened and the vision of an open society is betrayed.”[7]

Given the fact that academia has long been corrupt (or perhaps always been so) it’s up to independent, intelligent, critical thinkers such as yourself, Matthew Ehret, Darwin K. Hoop etc. etc. to start filling in the gaps. Given the (undue) length of this letter I’ll continue my theme at a later date…

Best,

Michael

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[1] https://news.yale.edu/2023/05/05/yale-study-reveals-insights-post-vaccine-heart-inflammation-cases?utm_source=YaleToday&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=YT_Yale%20Today%20Alum%20no%20Parents_5-11-2023

[2] http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2010/08/10/author_on_leave_after_harvard_inquiry/

[3] https://archive.md/6p2r4#selection-1573.1-1612.0

[4] Ibid

[5] Ibid

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[7] https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o702