The Corruption of Science by Our Educators

When I went to school back in the 60′s and 70′s, I remember we were encouraged to question, examine and explore EVERYTHING, not just in science, but in other subjects as well.  In fact, I remember one of my favourite high school teachers — Ted Bridle — really pushed us to look at things in ways that was not conventional or necessarily the accepted view.  

This has stuck with me for my entire life and I always appreciate the fact that he got us to strive to be different.  I’ve had a disdain for blind lemming followers my entire life, so whether it’s just a natural part of my personality that was bolstered by Mr. Bridle, I don’t know.  That’s why the first time I heard Al Gore say that the “science was settled”, my brain immediately went into high alert. 

This is the reason that this particular news article out of Britain bothers me so much.  Any time our kids are moulded into little Stepford wives, I have a major problem with it.  Our schools are no longer education facilities, but have become Liberal indoctrination centres.  30 years from now, I imagine all students will be wearing grey uniforms with their hair tightly tied back or cut short, snapping to attention whenever their ‘teacher’ barks a command.

Instead of being progressive with our schools, we’ve actually digressed a hundred years or so, to a time when you didn’t dare question religion.

We’ve seen the results of one whole generation that has come through this indoctrination process.  Is it too late to correct the harm that is being done to their minds?  – DQ

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Christopher Booker — The Telegraph (UK) — April 12, 2014

Brainwashing about global warming percolates throughout the education system

Not often does a senior Cabinet minister declare that a policy long pursued by his own department is “against the law”. But that was the response of Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, to a report exposing just how profoundly our education system has been hijacked by promoters of the official group-think on global warming.

Expanding on a theme touched on here more than once over the years, the report for the Global Warming Policy Foundation by Andrew Montford and John Shade shows how generations of schoolchildren have been taught to accept as gospel nothing but a propagandist, Greenpeace-type view of the global-warming scare, so one-sided that it makes a mockery of the requirement under the 1996 Education Act that pupils only be taught in a balanced way, allowing them to form their own view of the evidence.

So relentless is this brainwashing that it percolates throughout the curriculum, so that even exam papers in French, English or religious studies can ask students to explain why the world is dangerously warming up, or why we must build more wind turbines. In 2012, I described an A-level general studies paper set by our leading exam board, AQA, asking for comment on 11 pages of propagandist “source materials”, riddled with basic errors.

A mother wrote to tell me how her intelligent son, after getting straight As on all his science papers, used his extensive knowledge of climate science to point out all their absurd distortions.   Continue reading here….