Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The university choices faced by my fellow Queenslanders leave much to be desired if you want to avoid being indoctrinated to global warming mantras. Here is a rundown of choices.
My native Australia prides itself on the quality of its educational offerings. We have a range of fascinating options for students seeking a higher education.
If you like living and studying in the sunshine, the premier University in Queensland is The University of Queensland, which supports scientists like John Cook, who produced the infamous 97% climate consensus survey, which you aren’t allowed to examine in detail.
If University of Queensland is not quite your thing, you could elect to attend James Cook University, which recently ejected Bob Carter, even taking away his library pass. http://joannenova.com.au/2013/06/jcu-caves-in-to-badgering-and-groupthink-blackballs-politically-incorrect-bob-carter/
If you want to be educated in Sydney, home of the year 2000 Summer Olympics, your choice might be Macquarie University, which recently terminated skeptic Murry Salby, under some in my opinion rather strange circumstances – stranding Salby in Paris, after holding a meeting in his abscence. http://joannenova.com.au/2013/08/murry-salby-responds-to-the-attacks-on-his-record/
If Macquarie is not quite to your taste, but you like New South Wales, you could try the University of New South Wales, home of the Ship of Fools. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/01/22/spiritofmawson-ship-of-fools-apologize-for-mess-face-recovery-costs/
Of course, if you set your sights on the very pinnacle of Australian academia, you could try the Australian National University, whose director of the Australian National Centre for Public Awareness of Science recently demanded we should ignore the facts when it comes to climate science. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/03/15/australian-national-university-forget-the-climate-facts-we-need-opinions/
If you fancy the cooler Mediterranean climate of Australia’s southern coast, Melbourne University might be your choice – the Melbourne University which hosted to the Gergis study, $300,000 worth of effort which lasted 3 weeks before it had to be pulled due to a major flaw. http://joannenova.com.au/2012/06/300000-dollars-and-three-years-to-produce-a-paper-that-lasted-three-weeks-gergis/
If none of these Universities meet your requirements, you could go West, and try the University of West Australia, former home of our old friend Lewandowsky. UWA’s vice chancellor recently refused to release data to McIntyre, because he didn’t like McIntyre or something. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/04/03/a-stunning-revelation-from-a-uwa-vice-chancellor-paul-johnson-over-access-to-lewandowsky-poll-data/
So, which Australian university would you choose for your kids?
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Well Tasmania has been very green, and has suffered from it financially. Now I have forgotten what I was about to write. Ah. Do you honestly think UQ would sue an American? They would have to hire an American solicitor or lawyer I would think. Not cheap.
Well it is quite terrible that corrupting the data is considered science. William McBride got the Nobel Prize for discovering that thomilamide caused infant dreadful deformations. But he put in some research paper again and his assistant noticed the data did not coincide with the experiments, he mentioned this and McBride more or less told him to forget it, so he dobbed him in, and he was struck off the medical register. He admitted it though, but ruined his practice.
“Charles Nelson says:
May 18, 2014 at 4:07 pm
Immediately on gaining power it abolished ‘The Climate Commission’ through which the likes of Tim Flannery was paid $100,000 a year to predict that Brisbane would run out of water in 2009!”
Well said that man. However, just to be accurate, Flannery, his first degree was English Lit, was paid AU$180,000 for a 3 days per-week part time job at the commission. He was also on the board of directors of a geothermal energy company, and like Gore, has purchaced a very posh sea/river side property that, according to him, will be under a couple of meters of water in a few years. And some people think that was value for our tax money.
“teapartygeezer says:
May 18, 2014 at 9:04 pm
This is the 2nd time in two days I’ve heard him described as a ‘scientist.’ When did he attain that status?”
If memory serves, he did study physics at Ph D. level but did not complete the course in favour wanting to be a cartoonist (A poor one at that) and to work on the SkS blog.
Charles Nelson says:
May 18, 2014 at 4:07 pm
Australia is an amazing and beautiful country but its population is very vulnerable to Global Warming propaganda for a number of fairly obvious reasons.
Charles, don’t run down your fellow aussies like that. I have worked with and socialised with many antipodeans and find them the most educated, erudite and competent managers of all.
The peoples of aus are no less educated than those of europe. Just watch some of the TV interviews with the unwashed masses of the UK & europe and you will note a much more gullible people than in Auz.
It’s not Australia that is the problem… it’s Universities. Many all over the world are just shady gravy-train fishing expeditions disguised as research institutions. I graduated from Brunel University in London and can honestly say that is a fine University… However not all have the same integrity and standards and some simply can not resist easy money… Human by nature are greedy , some more than others.
Bottom line , theiris shed load of cash to be had in researching AGW , if the research produces the ‘correct results’
So of course universities are going to chase it even if it mean holding their noses while they do so.
A good day will be when the climate ‘science’ departments start lying people off , for that will tell us the cash has gone has the political will slipped away , and it will mean many worthless ‘scientists’ will find themselves unwanted and unloved , can you image anyone outside of this area giving Mann a job?
The bad news is the ‘leaders’ of this little happy gang have made cash and got their tenor so their safe. It’s the ‘minor players’ that will take the fall and all those poor souls that rushed into studying this area expected an easy life and good careers.
My daughter is looking at Newcastle Uni for her Post Grad. Any thoughts? I have discouraged all my kids from UQ, this is not the first major ethics fail in the last few years.
There is at least a diversity of views here at UTAS – which is as it should be! Stuart Franks, Garth Paltridge and others of varying persuasions.
Burnie is a bit of a struggle town: an industrial city in decline. Try Hobart, especially with MONA (Museum of Old and New Art – Google it!) or Launceston.
Good points, Aynsley. UTAS is present in both Hobart and Launceston (as well as the Cradle Coast). AS for MONA… a bit highbrow for me, but stunning nevertheless.
I musta dodged a bullet when I went to Queensland University of Technology, instead of UQ, mind you that was 30 years ago. Even then I remember being urged to work “key words” into grant applications, so nothings changed on the grant chasing front, just the key words change – the trendy key words of the day “Climate Change”.
Ahh, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
I can remember Griffith University in Brisbane a looong time ago, studying science to fill in the time between drinks. I recall being under the tutelage of one Dr Ian Lowe. The last time I said that out loud, the support group applauded …
Ian Lowe.. he was the strange fellow we met at a party who berated us about the ecological threats imposed by citizens driving cars in Brisbane, and then called a cab to take him home. These proponents of CAGW at least have the smarts to see a money grabbing opportunity. I wish I knew what the NEXT BIG THING will be to inhibit economic growth and scare the pants off the populace, if I did I’d be planning how to make a financial killing from it and the hell with ethics.
BTW Univ of New England and Sydney were my alma maters and each at the time was fantastic, because of the people within the departments where I studied. Which Uni depends on what subject, and if the subject is to be soft (eg history, anthropology, social sciences, journalism, environment, the arts etc) it is naive to expect that the departments teaching these will be free of bias. There is less room for belief systems to be promulgated in science, engineering, accounting and medicine and hopefully these faculties are set up in most universities to train people how to think and reason.
rockdoctor04
… These proponents of CAGW at least have the smarts to see a money grabbing opportunity. I wish I knew what the NEXT BIG THING will be to inhibit economic growth and scare the pants off the populace, if I did I’d be planning how to make a financial killing from it and the hell with ethics. …
You wouldn’t be able to do it – if you were capable of doing it, you would already be doing it.
To obtain money through a mechanism you knew was a lie, or at least a mechanism you didn’t want to question too closely, you would first need to develop an overwhelming sense of personal entitlement – you would have to be comfortable with continuously helping yourself to the fruits of other’s labour, through coercion and fiat rather than through trade, and you would have to believe that it was right and proper for you to do so.
Bush Bunny:
‘Well it is quite terrible that corrupting the data is considered science. William McBride got the Nobel Prize for discovering that thomilamide caused infant dreadful deformations.’
McBride won several awards, but never a Nobel.
Yes Eric, you are right. I’ll stick with being able to sleep straight in bed at night.
Cheers
Yes Aynsley you are correct, he was struck off and found guilty of medical fraud, but reinstated in 1998.
Most uni’s today are little more than post-adolescant daycare combined with Barrista career training.
What do you do with that degree in Feminist Studies? You keep those Latte’s comin, baybee!
Feminist studies would be a unit included in a BA. It could part of a social science major. That would be for budding psychologists. I think it would be a worthwhile unit. Actually BA also include archaeology and palaeoanthropology, and some units are in the science degree. Useful if you get a grant to dig somewhere or work for the National Parks and Wildlife department. They wouldn’t take me on digs, because of my age and fitness. Some of the regions they go too are isolated, and as the late Prof Mike Morwood told me once, yes they do hear crocodiles splashing not far from the camp site, then a walk was 5 kilometers away from the rock art they were studying, up hill etc. No thanks the crocs would frighten me as they can come on land.
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