Day: February 3, 2010

Mann Gets Cover From PSU In Global Warming Scandal

Penn State has released a report regarding the claims that Dr. Michael Mann, who heads the university’s Penn State’s Earth System Science Center, did very dishonest things to convince the world that man-made activities were causing a catastrophic warming to Planet Earth.


PSU addressed the claims that Mann:
  1. Participated in fabrication, falsification, plagiarism or other practices that seriously deviate from accepted practices within the academic community for proposing, conducting, or reporting research or other scholarly activities
  2. Showed callous disregard for requirements that ensure the protection of researchers, human participants, or the public; or for ensuring the welfare of laboratory animals
  3. Failed to disclose significant financial and business interest as defined by Penn State Policy RA20, Individual Conflict of Interest
  4. Engaged in, directly or indirectly, any actions that seriously deviated from accepted practices within the academic community for conducting research or other scholarly activities? 
The committee exonerated Mann on all allegations but the fourth about which it said further investigation was needed.
Mann came under fire after emails were leaked — the PSU board uses the word “purloined” — from the University of East Anglia’s Hadley Climatic Research Centre in the United Kingdom that showed leading climate researchers playing tricks with data and conspiring to stifle dissenters regarding the global warming catastrophe story.
Mann’s emails were among those released.
The most significant allegation was Number 1. That the Penn State review board couldn’t come to see that leaving out data points that would change the entire meaning of a graph goes way beyond “trying to construct an understandable graph for those who were not experts in the field” as per the PSU report indicates a serious decline in academic standards. 

Why Does The Left Hate Fox News?

Why Does The Left Hate Fox News? — Fox and Friends this morning featured a report that solid intelligence was obtained from the “underwear bomber” who attempted to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 to Detroit on Christmas, and that he has been cooperating with investigators.

Fox indicated that the reason for the cooperation was that the rather gentle handling  Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab received during his arrest caused his Nigerian family to support the FBI in encouraging the cooperation.
 
The story was given good play and treated as significant and could be considered  vindication for the Obama Administration’s policy regarding the treatment of terrorists captured in these situations, a policy which was roundly criticized by conservatives.
 
So why does the left hate Fox News? 
 
It’s not because Fox is unwilling to criticize conservatives because it does.
 
It’s not because Fox is unwilling to give liberals a voice because it does.
 
It’s not because Fox is unwilling to give liberals credit for success because it does.
 
It’s because Fox is willing to criticize liberals — which is something no other broadcast news organization is willing to do.
 

 

Here are seven huge flaws in the way liberals think as per John Hawkins:

 

1) Liberals believe they can change human nature.
2) Liberals believe we can talk everything out with our enemies.
3) Liberals don’t have enough respect for our culture and traditions:
4) Liberalism is a fundamentally immoral political philosophy (i.e. they believe that those who agree with them are on the side of the angels regardless of how they behave and those who disagree with them are evil regardless of how they behave or their reasoning. This means they are willing to defend those ranging from the blatantly corrupt such as Barney Frank or Charles Rangle to the tyrannically brutal such as Che Guevera or Hugo Chavez.
5) Liberals believe merely being liberal makes them good people.
6) Liberals have too much faith in government.
7) Liberals have minimal interest in whether the programs they support work or not.

 

The liberals who hate Fox are no different than members of a cult. They hate Fox not because it is unfair or dishonest but because it dares criticize their comfortable religion.