Beyond bizarre: University of Graz music professor calls for skeptic death sentences

I expect this Prof is so gullible that when he goes on a site called Skeptical Science he believes it is balanced summary, and then he gets angry and silly and puts up emotional junk on his website. The culprits are the ones who pull the strings of their puppet.
Unfortunately the puppet-masters are very clever at manipulation, whilst honest people shy away from providing simple sound bites and oversimplified summaries of the arguments. We have to counter this malign culture by putting out simplified and truthful press releases so that our message is not drowned out by this constant manipulation of the way the debate is being framed by our enemies for the media.

Here’s Parncutt’s email address. I’m sure some of us might wish to communicate with him.
richard.parncutt@uni-graz.at

DesertYote says:
December 23, 2012 at 11:23 pm
Funny thing for a leftie to say, considering that socialism, in all of its guises, has been the greatest single cause of death of man. To them, a 100 Million deaths here and there does not matter as long as the cause is right. Now they want to condemn mankind to a future of poverty and death to satisfy their lust for power.

The same totalitarian pigs who wrapped themselves in the socialist flag would have also insisted that they were true democrats. You can’t use that as proof that all forms of socialism are bad any more than you can use it to prove that all forms of democracy are evil.

Logan in AZ says:
December 24, 2012 at 2:47 am
Ernest R. Hilgard was a famed experimental and theoretical psychology prof at Stanford who found that hypnotizability is more or less normally distributed. Thus, about 15% of the population is very suggestible…..
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Thank you for that information. It certainly explains a lot.

papiertigre says:
December 24, 2012 at 2:55 am
Why do you assume he is intelligent? …..
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BRAMS is pleased to announce that Prof. Richard Parncutt (University of Graz, Austria) is an Invited Scholar from April 18th to July 8th 2012. While at BRAMS, Prof. Parncutt will be working on a book about systematic musicology (based on a lecture series at the University of Graz) and some empirical and theoretical papers….
ABOUT RICHARD PARNCUTT
Richard Parncutt is a musicologist specialising in the psychology of music. Since 1998, he has been Professor of Systematic Musicology at the University of Graz, Austria. His publications address musical structure (pitch, consonance, harmony, tonality, tension, rhythm, meter, accent), music performance (psychology, piano, applications), the origins of tonality and of music, and musicological interdisciplinarity. He holds qualifications in music and physics from the University of Melbourne and a PhD from the University of New England, Australia. He was guest researcher with Ernst Terhardt (Munich), Johan Sundberg (Stockholm), Annabel Cohen (Halifax, Canada), Al Bregman (Montreal), and John Sloboda (Keele, England). He is or was a board member of all leading music psychology journals, founding academic editor of the Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies (JIMS), and (co-) founder of three conference series: Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM), Conference on Applied Interculturality Research (cAIR), and International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology (SysMus)…..
http://www.brams.org/en/2012/05/parncutt/

Ye 10,000 little gods, psychology AND physics….

J Cooper says:
December 24, 2012 at 3:11 am
Geoff Sherrington
I agree this person should be ignored and hopefully he will go away….
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If he was isolated madman chance met like a similar guy I ran across in Cambridge MA. then I would agree with you but he is not. He is a Professor and a well known one in his field. This type of mania HAS TO BE CALLED OUT NOW.
Vid

Poor Dick.
One minute he’s happily doing whatever a musicologist does and in the next uncle adolfs inherited dormant braincell is stuttering into life and shouting about Ubermensch, final solutions, Tod Klimawandel-Leugner!!!
We shouldnt really mock the afflicted though because as others have rightly pointed out, these people are actually dangerous.
Theyre dangerous to anyone with a differing point of view and to freedom.
For him to actually state that Breivik shouldnt face the death penalty for killing people and then try to justify that contrary held opinions deserve the death penalty purely on a belief is to my mind the symptom of a twisted mind.
Dicks rant is that of a psychopath, who else other than a psychopath would actually suggest that a child for instance should be “executed” ( as if using that word can legitimise such murders) simply for the offence of not “believing”?
The mind truly boggles at such peoples mindset.
This guy is in effect inciting murder of those on the desmoblog death list.
Im pretty sure incitement to commit murder is a criminal offence in most countries, the fact that Dicky states that opinions other than his are somehow unlawful, unreasonable or irrelevant shows how poorly vetted these “academics” are.
For sure people like Parncutt arent to be trusted around the minds of children or in fact anyone else, theyre pernicious little psychos pushing a religious fanaticism.
We should all stand against such people and what they stand for and be prepared to fight them however.

Interesting what comes out in his vitriol.While the urge to reply in kind is strong, I certainly don’t want it on the www. What is it with people who are so impressed with whatever they can think of. No self-censure seems to me a sign of a lack of conscience. Without conscience. is there a case for empathy? I guess he teaches how death camps are wrought.

leftturnandre says:
December 24, 2012 at 4:14 am
I wonder what sentence the professor would give to the advocates of biofuels, abandoning food farms for biofuel crops, thus causing famines, treatening some 11 million people….
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You have not seen anything yet. The USA grows something like 25% of the worlds food and the USDA and the EPA under Obama are sharping their blades. The much hated traceability rule has just gone into effect and the EPA is also targeting farms.

…. farms: under federal permitting requirements, sources (i.e. a farm whose aggregate emissions exceed CAA permitting thresholds) would be required to comply with costly permitting mandates and pay an annual fee for each ton of greenhouse gas emitted on an annual basis. Known as the “cow tax”, there would be a cost-per-animal outcome. EPA itself estimates that in its best case scenario, there will be over 37,000 farms and ranches subject to greenhouse gas permits at an average cost of $23,000 per permit annually, affecting over 90% of the livestock production in the United States…. [the average farmer operates at a net LOSS of ~$15,000/yr last I checked]
[this would cover field and livestock run off]
EPA’s proposed new guidance document for waters covered by the CWA, proposed in April 2011, reinterprets recent Supreme Court decisions to allow EPA to expand federal control over virtually every body of water in the United States, no matter how small. EPA’s own analysis of the document estimated that up to 17% of current non-jurisdictional determinations would be considered jurisdictional using the new guidance. Further, the guidance applies to the entire CWA, which will result in additional regulatory responsibilities for states…..
Farm Dust Regulations: EPA has been regulating farm dust for decades and may tighten the standards as part its review of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for coarse particulate matter (PM10). Tightening the PM10 NAAQS would have widespread implications for rural America, as it could be below the amount of dust created during normal farming operations, and therefore be impossible to meet. If the standard is tightened, the only option for farmers to comply will be to curb every-day farm activities, which could mean cutting down on numbers of livestock or the tilling of fields, or they may have to shrink or even end their businesses altogether….
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/10/obamas_epa_plans_for_2013.html

They are also starting to ‘show an interest’ in home gardens. I just heard there is a newly past law in NC regulating home gardens but I have not been able to track it down yet.

Austrian? Death sentences? Really?
The guy’s gone off the deep end….

“Systematic Musicology” Indeed! The “Post-Modern” Musicology of today is as rife with fraud, PC and trendy jargon as climate science itself. And, as in climate science, Marxism has invaded academic musicology (see T. Adorno). Their publications are also mired in peer-pal review.
I speak as a composer with 40 years experience in an American university school of music.