Stanford's Gestapo censors Climate Skeptics

[gdfernan]

Stanford University has forced a documentary film maker from showing excerpts from an interview with Steven Schneider. Steven Schneider was a leading proponent of Global Cooling in the 70s who has converted into an ardent Warmist (Similar to Obama's science star John Holdren). He also boasted that he would "slaughter" skeptic scientists in a debate, but when many scientists accepted his challenge he backed off.

www.climatedepot.com/a/3212/Inconvenient-Questions-Stanford-U-Bans-Climate-Film-from-Airing-Interview-with-Cooling-turned-Warming-Prof-Stephen-Schneider--You-are-prohibited

It seems as if any anti american or anti capitalist expression is venerated and protected at american higher ed institutions (Case in point, the "Little Eichmans" comment), but scientific dissent is not tolerated

[woodstove]

Schneider pulls in a lot of research dollars for Stanford. Anyone who threatens that revenue stream will be shot with a water cannon.

Meanwhile, it's not that these filmmakers coerced Schneider into answering questions. In his exuberant arrogance it never occurred to him that simply comparing his former remarks with newer ones could be done in such a way as to reveal his underlying thread of me-first alarmism.

He has tried to distance himself from the ice-age warnings of the 1970s, but the record showing him to be at the forefront of that scare is too extensive to be wiped out.

[latecommer]

Schneider is no different from all other alarmists. They simply won't debate skeptics, because they have no evidence, and speculations and unvalidated computer models just don't carry much weight in a scientific debate.

They live under the old homily that : " It is better to remain silent and let people think you are ignorant, than it is to speak and remove all doubt of the fact"