This is a video of presentation given in July at the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness conference in Houston, which I also had the honor of attending. Note the beginning of his talk where he points out these two blog posts (Part1 and Part2) of a fellow who calls Dr. Soon an “enemy of the planet” and “prostitute” among other things.
The irony is that the writer (Dr. Douglas Craig) is a practicing psychologist. One wonders how he treats patients he might disagree with when we see him write hateful vitriol like that.
From my viewpoint, the blogger needs a refresher on the code of ethics for the American Psychological Association: http://www.apa.org/ethics/code/index.aspx?item=3
In particular:
Principle B: Fidelity and Responsibility
Psychologists establish relationships of trust with those with whom they work. They are aware of their professional and scientific responsibilities to society and to the specific communities in which they work. Psychologists uphold professional standards of conduct, clarify their professional roles and obligations, accept appropriate responsibility for their behavior and seek to manage conflicts of interest that could lead to exploitation or harm.
Here is the video from DDP, compare for yourself how Dr. Craig conducts himself -vs- how Dr. Soon does:
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Boy, Douglas Craig pulls no punches. I guess he forgets that in ‘real life’ he is a psychologist.
Well then, is the correct term for someone promoting the AGW gospel: AGW pimp ?
Indeed, he shouldn’t have used language like that. Calling somebody a prostitute is simply unacceptable.
Perhaps the monitors at WUWT will remember this when they allow through similar or worse comments about Michael Mann and his scientific colleagues.
@Bob – I’m with you – name calling on either side of an issue does nothing to improve the process of arriving at truth. That being said, I’d suggest that the appropriate standard of discourse for a professional giving a formal presentation presentation might be different (and perhaps should be higher) than for a comment on a blog.
“Michael Mann and his scientific colleagues?
That’s a bit of a stretch describing them as ‘scientific’ – grant addicted, data manipulating, opportunists would be much more apt.
“Michael Mann and his scientific colleagues.”
Thanks for the Monday morning laugh. Mann and his colleague are no more scientists of anything,let alone climate,then I am JP Morgan.Your one brain cell must be getting really lonely.
The definition of delusion just got a medical update.
In fact, a situation where someone is incorrectly diagnosed as delusional but turns out to be right has just been named the “Martha Mitchell Effect” in honor of the wife of US Attorney General under Nixon, John Mitchell, who was telling the inside story to journalists and editors before Watergate broke and maintaining her husband’s innocence. She was sedated to shut her up in 1972. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/04/the-concept-of-delusions-gets-a-big-but-unnoticed-overhaul/
The new definition encompasses
Dr, Craig, whose ravings are unbecoming a doctor to begin with, may have to face the music from his own profession.
Moving goalposts!
My comment wasn’t about his scientific qualifications (which IMO are excellent, but that isn’t the point). The article above complains about Willy Soon (a WUWT friend, I think) being called a prostitute – but ignoring the fact that WUWT uses much worse language about the people it doesn’t like.
‘Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander’ as they say …
A prostitute is someone to who takes money in exchange for sexual services.
What does one call someone who takes money in exchange for faking up scientific-sounding results?
Mann et. al. are not scientists, they’re activists. And I’ve never heard anyone call them prostitutes… but I have to admit, it’s probably pretty appropriate.
By the way, if you want “enemy of the planet”, just check out the horrific damage being done by wind turbines, aka bird slicer/dicer/clubbers. People putting those things up, now THEY’RE enemies of the planet.
Bob,
“‘Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander’ as they say …”
Except that’s not the actual saying. Try again, or better yet take your foolishness elsewhere, like Thinkprogress.com. That sounds more your speed.
Re: Bob Tuner:
Hang around here awhile. If you can avoid 3-monkey syndrome, you will eventually receive enough education to reverse that discrepant attitude.
What many Warmists fail to observe about sceptical scientists is this: They can make their lives a whole lot easier and get more funding by jumping on the bandwagon. No loss of income likely, increased income most probable. Warmists would embrace them with open arms and lavish funding upon them. All they have to do is accept the dogma.
Hey Bob, so what examples do you have of people here using worse language than “enemy of the planet”?
Mr Turner, Mann repudiated his qualifications when he chose to become and remain an insttutional co-dependent ( a term that also could be applied to prostitutes, but at least they provide a service. Note, I didn’t call Mann a prostitute. Readers of WUWT are well aware that correlation doesn’t equal causation…)
Psychologists, hmm. When I was passing through university and appropriately arrogant, psychologists were viewed generally as wannabee psychiatrists that didn’t make it into medical school….
Only in the world of the Looney left do you call prostitutes ‘sex workers’ and scientists prostitutes.
I have to say though as with Lewanksey and Grieg all psychologists tend to be of a lefty background my ex sister in law being a good example. It’s like a CSE compared to an ‘O’ Level. Also lefties always look for reasons to blame the world i.e. capitalism and are never concerned with biological reasons on victim.
By the way good lecture by Willie. Not sure about sea level proof regarding Pevensey Castle as I know much land in the SE of England was reclaimed with drainage.
Brilliant presentation from Willie!
MUST WATCH: Willie Soon Smashes CO² Sea-Level-Rise Alarmism http://wp.me/p3Bc8A-8P
Clearly, Craig is a racist!
No doubt he subjects his patients to electroshock therapy when they don’t give him the “correct” answers on climate related questions. I’m thinking something similar to Bill Murray’s character in the opening scene of Ghostbusters:
Dr Soon is a straight talker and certainly understands reality.
> Note the beginning of his talk where he points out these two blog posts (Part1 and Part2) ….
Those links go to webcitation.org which interferes with everything you might look at on the target site. Craig’s page is a blog at
where he has at least ten blog articles about PBS giving you air time on that PBS Newshour report last year. It looks like a cross between SkS and Bill McKibben:
I didn’t continue.
I did continue this, but the tease is adequate, though I’ll note “The [third] thing I know about Stanford is that smart people go to school there and it is hard to get into.” I figure that someone had only heard of Stanford University twice by age 25 or so, and then only in the context of football games is not worth following about complicated science.
Very informative lecture by Willie Soon. Trying to measure such small changes in a massive system is impossible. The same with temperature changes. 0.75 degree C change since 1850? I would suggest this could be within the error margin and there has been no warming.
Were all doomed! but wait, according to the ice charts, it’s not melting fast enough to end the world. Also, if global warming equals no days in the 90’s here in Ky for Aug. I welcome it. 🙂
All humans report to the disintegration chambers, your destroying the planet with CO2
“Dead trees and climate change (1)
By Doug Craig on July 8, 2013 10:48 PM
My older brother Jim sent me the above picture he recently took of a few dead trees in Colorado, deceased lodgepoles that stand like a million monuments across the ancient, sacred Rockies; silent sentries that no longer breathe but remind us of what once was before the beetles were unleashed by runaway climate change. The photograph is beautiful and haunting, a work of art to be admired like surreal corpses in a mortuary, a memorial to a world we once had and pissed away. Here is how NBC News tells it: “Tiny, winged bark beetles have been the ecological…
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I thought I might add, there was a bark beetle outbreak in the German National Park in Bavaria 6 years ago after storm Kyril uprooted thousands of spruce trees there. The policy of the park is to let nature take its course, and it looked like a moonscape of dead trees for a while; until young spruce and other trees took over.
The dead trees still serve as habitat for rare woodpeckers and rare insect and fungi species that don’t find a place in a managed forest. It is about the only “secondary Ur forest” in Europe.
DirkH says:
August 5, 2013 at 5:32 am
“I thought I might add, there was a bark beetle outbreak ”
And just so you know, I heard a report about this forest today on ultra green German state radio. Not some evil capitalist propaganda organ; but on a radio program that is a living embodiment of Political Correctness of the most Leninist sort.