While the Anti Defamation League turns a blind eye to their own home grown hypocrisy and ugliness, Lawrence Torcello comes up with even more.
Via Delingpole at Breitbart:
Scientists who don’t believe in catastrophic man-made global warming should be put in prison, a US philosophy professor argues on a website funded by the UK government.
Lawrence Torcello – assistant professor of philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology, NY, writes in an essay at The Conversation that climate scientists who fail to communicate the correct message about “global warming” should face trial for “criminal negligence”. (H/T Bishop Hill)
What are we to make of those behind the well documented corporate funding of global warming denial? Those who purposefully strive to make sure “inexact, incomplete and contradictory information” is given to the public? I believe we understand them correctly when we know them to be not only corrupt and deceitful, but criminally negligent in their willful disregard for human life. It is time for modern societies to interpret and update their legal systems accordingly.
More here: http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/03/13/US-Philosophy-Professor-Jail-Denialist-Climate-Scientists-For-Criminal-Negligence
What next, numbers tattoed on our arms because we hold an opinion different from Torcello?
From their Vision and Mission page:
Integrity and Ethics: Does what it takes to deliver on commitments made to the department, college, or division and to constituency groups. Builds personal trust and relationships inside and outside the university by doing what one says he or she will do when it is promised.
Respect, Diversity and Pluralism: Provides a high level of service to fellow members of the RIT community. Treats every person with dignity. Demonstrates inclusion by incorporating diverse perspectives to plan, conduct, and/or evaluate the work of the organization, department, college, or division.
Apparently “treating people with dignity” only applies if you are part of the RIT community.
If you want to complain to the Rochester Institute of Technology about Mr. Torcello, here’s the places to do it:
http://www.rit.edu/fa/humanresources/aboutus
http://www.rit.edu/cla/philosophy/Torcello.html
If you choose to lodge a complaint, be sure to be courteous and factual, we don’t need to surrender the moral high ground to anger.
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As I pointed out at BH, RIT is funded by (among others) two major plastics companies and Toyota. So no conflict with BIG OIL there then…..
Has anyone ever seen those documents?
It’s a sad commentary on the state of philosophy when PhD’s in it demonstrate that all of their learning has imparted no more wisdom to them than that of a common thug.
Now why do we never see a climate scientist of the global warming persuasion ever speak up against these types of totalitarian ideas? Shame, shame. Is it because you guys need all the help you can get and where it comes from doesn’t matter?
Thanks to Anthony for this exposure. I am all in favor of publicizing these types and showing the world what they are all about.
I’m glad this guy has a nice job in academia where he can’t do any real harm. (Full disclosure: I am an academic type as well.)
I mean, really – where else would you put someone like this? He may have no skills or education connected to a job in the private sector, so it’s academia or government for him.
Have some faith in the kids. In my experience, students roll their eyes when this type of prof tries to indoctrinate them. So please don’t write the President of RIT. Leave the Ass. Prof. where he is, and hope he gets tenure. He’ll turn more young minds against him than he’ll win over.
This so-called Prof of Philosophy teaches at the “Rochester Institute of Technology”—-and after a quick look at the curriculum at this institute, one can see there are NO hard science courses, nor any mathematical courses that is generally considered to be necessary for any evaluation of scientific evidence. Well, it does have the necessary curriculum for liberal arts students—sociologists, psychologists, and so on….the people that study “feel good” type of science.
chris y says:
March 14, 2014 at 6:31 am
I’ll repeat previous comments made by others that private institution RIT is a very highly regarded (and expensive at $45.6K per year) undergraduate school for Engineering. Their co-op program is excellent.
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IS highly regarded? You need to make that past tense.
Was is more like it. It has fallen like MIT, Stanford, Harvard amoungst others who were elite universities…
Are various writers thinking Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, rather than this Rochester school? Rensselaer IS a engineering school long famous in civil and structural work, with graduates going all the way back to the 1860’s and 1870’s such as Roebling.
Just change the name of his department to The Ministry of Truth and we would all know where he is coming from…
What’s the Rochester Institute of Technology? First time I’ve ever heard that name, and the initial impression is not good. Is it an educational organization?
Ed Zuiderwijk says:
March 14, 2014 at 6:47 am
“Perhaps we shouldn’t worry too much about toads when adulated by the likes of Chloe Sumner who reacts at the conversation.”
Ed, that will likely be the barking mad Chloe Sumner who left this comment over at the Daily Telegraph today:
There really is no hope of getting through to some people and you wonder at the waste of the tax-payers’ money in paying teachers to teach these people. sheesh! Like I said, barking!
Assistent professors of philosophy are always the go-to guys when there are questions concerning climate. Right?
Probably just me but this guy looks like the poster boy for stranger danger day.
Happy to be behind bars for telling the proven truth. Inquisition back on its fours?
That is an ppropriate amendment.
More seriously, I guess if you are a philosophy student at RIT and you happen to say that, given the harsh winter they have suffered, you wouldn’t mind a little more warming, or that CO2 is what plants use for making wood, then you can kiss your degree goodbye.
RACookPE1978 says:
March 14, 2014 at 8:05 am
Rochester Institute of Technology is a very fine, well regarded institution. It usually ranks in the top 15 of engineering and science schools. Founded in 1829, it is also home to National Technical Institute for the Deaf. It also has a strong curricula in Imaging Science.(PhD). Being as how Rochester, NY is also the home of Eastman Kodak this is not surprising. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is also another fine institution. The two schools are not related.
Bob Diaz says:
March 13, 2014 at 11:41 pm
RE: Scientists who don’t believe in catastrophic man-made global warming should be put in prison …
Sure, let’s go back to those happy days where people who thought that the Earth went around the Sun were thrown in prison. The “scientific consensus” back them said the Sun went around the Earth and we all saw that Scientific Consenses is NEVER wrong!!!
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While I like your sentiment, your basis is untrue. Who was thrown in prison for theorizing that the earth went around the sun? Not Galileo. Not Kepler. Not Copernicus. Not Newton. The “Church persecuted science” line of thought is a myth. Do some googling of real science historians, rather than popular anti-religion zealots.
(Note: Galileo was put under house arrest for using heliocentricism to question the authroity of the Bible. No prison, and not for science.)
the conversation says
“We aim to help rebuild trust in journalism. All authors and editors sign up to our Editorial Charter. All contributors must abide by our Community Standards policy. We only allow authors to write on a subject on which they have proven expertise, which they must disclose alongside their article.”
https://theconversation.com/uk/who_we_are
what is his expertise?Looks like he is promoting co2=main driver of climate as a certainty?
he says “an organised campaign funding misinformation ought to be considered criminally negligent”
yes and given the climategate emails who might be doing that?.
Could you point me to this documentation please? The only “documentation” I’ve ever seen was from Peter Gleick – and that was falsified. Wait a minute, wasn’t he in charge of “Ethics” too?
Hilarious, George
For those of you who don’t understand the background, the Chinese written language is pictographic, not alphabetic. Additionally, the written language is not pronunciation dependent (i.e. all dialects can be written with the same character set).
Maybe the long winter got to him, among other things.
I don’t know why we waste our breath on an ‘assistant professor’ at some no mark US university.
We’ve heard this kind of language before.