Revolt of the pigmies

Vincent J. Curtis

6 Apr 23

RE: McMaster students acting on evidence the university is ignoring.  Op ed.  The Hamilton Spectator, 6 Apr 23.

How many academic pigmies does it take to write a letter?  Eight, apparently, and it must have involved a lot of coordination for eight allegedly independent thinkers to agree to expose jointly how little they actually know.

The eight pigmies connected to McMaster demonstrated how little they know about investing, engineering, the alleged climate crisis, and even basic philosophy.  Anyone who can say, “evidence-based knowledge” flunks Phil 101.  Even the use of “evidence based medical and health policy” is dodgy since what else would you base them on?  But these blunders won’t stop them from blatant moral preening as they hector the president of McMaster.

All they know about the climate crisis is what they read in the funny papers, like the Spectator.  There is a thought conformance campaign going on over climate that’s longer, more sustained, and more brutal than the recent experience we had with the COVID crisis, which we are only now slowly beginning to realize.  Suffice it to say, by 2028 the climate craziness is going to implode.  The science and the data aren’t there to support a climate “crisis” based on GHG emissions.

They condemned the lack of public consultation about installation of gas powered electrical generators on campus, as if Mac didn’t have a whole engineering faculty in house, to say nothing of consulting engineers available.  A public consultation is only an opportunity for the climate drag queens to preen themselves before an unawares public.

The purpose of investing is to make money.  The aim of the divestment crowd is for Mac not to make money.  That alone ought to be reason to dismiss the eight pigmies with amusement.

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The eight authors are: Paul Deker, Harvey Feit, Atif Kurbursi, Graeme MacQueen, Don McLean, Gary Purdy, Rama Singh, and Don Wells.  They are honorary degree recipient, faculty member, emeritus faculty, and former faculty of McMaster University.