UPDATE: University of Oregon responds, see Update #3 below.
I’ve been purposely ignoring this ugly pronouncement related to “Planet Under Pressure“, because well, it was just so beyond ugly and it brought up visions of the Soviet politburo defining political opposition as a mental illness. As Andrew Bolt put it, Something is sick, and it’s not the sceptics.
But now there’s been a cover up, and I have the goods.
Apparently, the maelstrom of embarrassment and public ridicule created by Kari Marie Norgaard, professor of sociology and environmental studies at the University of Oregon was too much for the University to bear. So, in the best Soviet style, they rewrote history, as if nobody would notice, without so much as an apology or update. I find it amazing in this day an age that University types still don’t understand the Internet and that disappearing things like this only makes it worse for you.
Now you see it:
Source: Google Cache which says: This is Google’s cache of http://uonews.uoregon.edu/archive/news-release/2012/3/simultaneous-action-needed-break-cultural-inertia-climate-change-respons. It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on Mar 29, 2012 21:42:11 GMT. The current page could have changed in the meantime
Now you don’t:
The words “and treated” have now been sanitized from the University’s press statement, which is located here:
I hope that the University of Oregon Alumni are made aware of this.
h/t to Christopher Monckton
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UPDATE: It seems Norgaard herself has been “disappeared” from the University of Oregon web server. In the ORIGINAL press statement that I got from Google Cache, there’s a link to Norgaard’s faculty page, a portion of which I used in my third paragraph above.
Here’s the screencap, I put yellow highlight either side of the link to her page:
That link goes to: http://sociology.uoregon.edu/faculty/norgaard.php but that gives a 500 Internal Server error now:
Although she still appears of the sociology faculty page listing at:
http://sociology.uoregon.edu/faculty/index.php
…that link is dead as well, but other faculty members on the same page have working links.
And, further, the link from the original press release has also been removed in the revised one, note the missing link underline between the yellow highlights on Norgaard’s name:
Curiouser and curiouser.
Again, Google Cache is your friend:
What a bunch of rank amateurs. Maybe they’ll soon go from being called The Mighty Ducks to “The Mighty Schmucks”.
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UPDATE#2 – It gets worse. As pointed out in comments, apparently her official uoregon.edu email address has been replaced on the Sociology Faculty page. On the Google Cache for that page, as it appeared on Mar 28, 2012 19:55:22 GMT, the “send email” link for Norgaard goes to a uoregon.edu email address. On the current page, it goes to a yahoo.com email address. If they were trying to shield her from hateful email, why shift it to a private email account?
Something is going on behind the scenes that we aren’t privy to yet.
UPDATE#3 4/3/12 2PM PST
UO responds:
I asked Jim Barlow, director of science and research communications, University of Oregon when and why the sentence was changed. Here’s his response:
“I intended the original first sentence of the news release to function as a play-on-words on our researcher’s message about recognizing and addressing cultural inertia. Unfortunately, the word “treated” became the focus of the story, leading to inaccurate portrayals. In an effort to shift the focus back to the actual topic of the conference presentation, I chose at midday Monday to remove the word from the version of the news release that appears on our website.”
Source:
http://cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/call-climate-skeptics-be-treated-removed-universitys-press-statement (h/t David L. Hagen)
No mention of why her faculty page disappeared.
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My husband is a skeptic and a U of O alum and those folks call here all the time asking for money. Can’t wait until the next time they call.
These aren’t the press releases you’re looking for. Move along.
The activist branch of climate “science” has morphed into a social “science” where hypothesis and theory become vehicles for loopy untestable flights of imagination. Nothing can be tested and nothing disproved. How is it so attractive to so many seemingly intelligent people? Is it because academics live in echo chambers where every utterance is its own justification?
“where to put the lever to shift the weight.” I may have a suggestion.
I’m glad you’re spreading this far and wide. Just like the No Pressure video (and the mentality behind it) these people will go just as far as they can, up to and including carrying out such pernicious plans, if they think they can get away with it. This is just testing the water. The only real antidote, before the bullets start flying, is to drag it all out into the public arena for everyone to see and judge. One of the (many) reasons I have such a high regard for Lord Monckton is his unrelenting determination to ensure that each and every green totalitarian lunacy sees the light of day. At least then we can’t say we weren’t warned.
Looks like her school page is down also (http://sociology.uoregon.edu/faculty/norgaard.php)
Everbody elses page on staff works fine. Hmmm.
And if you click on Kari Norgaard’s name on the faculty list at http://sociology.uoregon.edu/faculty/index.php to view her curricula vitae, you get an Internal Server Error message. Out of the two dozen faculty members listed there, that only happens in her case. A coincidence? More sanitizing in process?
a) U. of Oregon integrity, b) memory hole. Some dis-assembly required.
That’s not all – they have removed the link to her faculty bio, and from the cached version I get an “internal server error”.
That’s not all they changed: in the google cache version there’s a link to Norgaard’s faculty bio page – that’s missing in the new version.
Plus, attempting to access the link via the cached page results in a 500 “Internal Server Error”.
REPLY: Yes, shortly after publishing I did link checks in the story, and I’ve done an update. – Anthony
Out, damned spot! out, I say!
Ha,ha,ha… its a sickness. Wow, psychology and sociology major careers could be made just on the topic of mass mania, the transmission of memes, and the inherent weakness of the human spirit when faced with peer pressure. If I was one of those majors I would laying out my research papers for the next decade..
I am personally offended by the attitude that questioning the official party line/lie is a mental defect. I fear for the future if these fanatic true believers get more power than they already have. It feels a if we are in a race to prove AGW is false before they enact their polices. I am in the process of searching for a college to send one of my children to. Needless to say, that one is off the list. I would appreciate suggestions for which top 100 universities is safe to send a child to.
The email address at the bottom of their news release (uonews@uoregon.edu) is phoney. No such address.
Why are we not surprised?
A click on Kari Marie Norgaard’s link brings this response:
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
I sincerely hope the University of Oregon did not misconfigure Prof. Norgaard permanently.
Maybe the men in the white coats came and got her?
Treated how? Sent to reeducation camps till we learn the errors of our ways, no matter how long it takes?
She’s been “treated” then?
Her bio page contains contact info. Maybe they’re simply protecting her privacy by blocking it. Based on photos of her that have been published, I expect that she is receiving some vicious emails.
REPLY: That may well be, but she’s a public employee, and that comes with public responsibility for your actions. If they were concerned they could have put up a note explaining why. – Anthony
Born in Eugene a liberal arts college town and grew up across the river in Springfield a logging community. Students at the UofO protested against logging pushing bills that made loggers remove the fallen trees from the streams. As Boy Scouts across the river we planted trees before the laws required it with out a greeny in sight. Years later we put trees into the stream to protect the fish habitat. The story is the same different actors. How long will it be until they come to the conclusion of opposed one more time. I would question if they would ever get it right but that is not the real goal. Speaking of goals stick to football.
Nice work. Was reading this earlier when published and thinking about what a mess our colleges are. Then to top it off there is at the heart of our educational institutions covert activity to cover the embarrassing acts of those who attempt remold the minds of the blind. An obvious admission that there are serious problems with who is hired and worse, who is doing the hiring.
It is a travesty folks are paying for such crap.
” The social organization of denial” caught my eye, so I got bunch skeptics together to figure how to refute this, ….
wfrumkin in the NW OSU is not a bad choice for science. Their Oceanography and Nuclear programs are not to badly influanced. Earth science is less twisted and the only renewable they have realy worked on is wave energy. The wave will never realy prove out but it is not wind or solar at least.
[snip – that’s a private email, not related to her University of Oregon affiliation and thus not public, so I won’t be publishing it here no matter how much I disagree with her – Anthony]
Of COURSE it is in the best Soviet style. It’s the same people. It is the global socialist movement. It’s a wonder The Internationale didn’t start playing when you landed on the page. Climate change is absolutely vital to implementing the global socialist agenda.