The LSU-Bradley Schaeffer Affair, All Fleshed Out
On Nov. 10, we posted a video of an astronomy class at LSU which indicated the level of left-wing indoctrination our tax dollars are funding in some instances. That video generated no small amount of controversy, particularly among those who believe it wasn’t fully indicative of the affair LSU professor Bradley Schaeffer put on.
Well, the organization which originally released the video has now prepared a more detailed presentation of what actually happened in that class. And CampusReform.org is taking pains to show that, if anything, it’s worse than advertised.
Astronomy professor Dr. Bradley Schaeffer of Louisiana State University seated his class according to their opinions on the proper policy response to global warming.
His class seating chart (see the bottom of the blog post), which ranged from “US should do nothing” to “mandatory birth control” and “eliminate all engines,” seemed — to one student — “an opportunity for our teacher to openly mock” right-leaning students in class.
As students file into the room, Dr. Schaeffer shouts his warnings to students who sit in the corner of the room that advocates no governmental action in response to global warming.
“You will not want your children, if they live, why you’re sitting on that corner, that you’re part of the the trouble, right?” he says. Then he tells another student, “Too little, too late. Blood will be on your hands.”
The seating chart for that class indicates Schaeffer’s idea of the spectrum of opinion on global warming…
With that chart, the video comes into more vivid perspective…
Today’s offering from CampusReform.org is the first of three, with additional explanations of the complete video coming in subsequent days.
Is this guy not fired/suspended yet?
actually this is highly incorrect. After being in that same class and going through this same activity, i was also openly mocked by the professor.But not because i didn’t want to do anything. But because i wanted to eliminate all engines. I even went further in trying to explain what we could do to combat global warming, and was shut down by the professor for being a communist. so yeah he mocks the students on the right but he also mocks the students on the left. It’s hilarious, that rightist blogs talk about the leftist indoctrination of youth in college. especially at LSU when there isn’t one-left leaning organization or any economic class on left-leaning principles. I do believe Professor James Stoner the chair of the Polisci department here at the university, is actually teaching classes for Glenn Beck. your an idiot. Oh and by the way. Your two-party system in american government that you view as totality is failing. have fun clinging on to your archaic beliefs as you go down with the ship!
-Horticulture Student.
Indoctrinated into the left at the start of the Iraq Occupation. (not college)
it’s “you’re” an idiot… idiot
It’s a wonderful thought that you’re subsidizing his education, no?
The fact that imbeciles such as yourself are put on an equal footing with the majority of Americans who are not swayed by the global warming fraud is evidence enough of Schaeffer’s imbalanced presentation.
By the by – if you plan on attacking someone’s intelligence it’s custom to take pains to use proper grammar in doing so. “Your an idiot” doesn’t create a very authoritative presentation.
Cool. I’ll openly mock you too. Elimination of engines would mean the mass starvation of tens of billions of people. You aren’t an idiot — you’re evil.
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hey it’s Schaefer not Schaeffer, great story, campusreform.org is a great site
the fact that you have to correct my grammar sways from the argument, an argument you can’t fully express or win. the reactionary pseudo-populist movement happening in a minority part of the population right now is ridiculous. Would you like to hearken back to the golden age of the founding of the Constitution? Were there engines back then? Nope, absolutely not. Why do you think i’m majoring in Horticulture? to start a farm and be self-sufficient from government nut-jobs such as yourself. To not have to fund wars, the subsidization of corporatism and the over-all ridiculous economic imperialism we’re forcing all over the globe. Calling me evil is throwing moralist values into it. Guess what? Hate to burst your buttons. There’s no god, and no good and evil. I almost feel like idiots like you want the rapture to come. So as the earth’s temperatures raise an average of 2 or 3 degrees Celsius, you guys can celebrate as you think your god comes down and saves you from the heathens. Guess what? not gonna happen and you guys will die from starvation, lack of water, and the desertification of the soil…. with the rest of us. It’s selfish people like you, Spurred on by capitalism and a sense of entitlement brought about by the idea of private property that is ruining the world, but that’s ok. I’m sure the average age of a comment poster here on this page is about 50. So the younger generation will outlive you and correct your wrongs. the truth is you people are afraid. Afraid of dying? afraid of minority-majorities? afraid of change? i don’t really know, but unfortunately you guys are making as much racket and causing as much damage as you can on your way out. take a back seat., and let the younger generation lead.
-horticulture student
not indoctrinated by TV, indoctrinated by books.
In other words, you’re incapable of understanding the forces which have shaped human progress but perfectly capable of hatred for those who disagree with you.
You’re at the same time ignorant, stupid and evil. The rest of us are right to be afraid, as people like you have done a tremendous amount of damage throughout history.
did you just repeat what i said? I thought you guys didn’t like the word “progress” as far as shaping it. do you mean the invention of automatic weapons and those toys plunging us into WWI. how about the idea of eugenics creating racism and eventually the holocaust. would that be human progress? or you must simply mean the engine itself, which made us addicted to oil and has had us intervene in several foreign areas including but not limited to…. iran other parts of the middle east and southeast asia. I’m sorry. let’s go back further. You must not be talking about human progress and American economic policy before the 20th century. Because that was only on the backs of slaves. I’m sorry i don’t see much human progress. I people pacified by television, gadgets and consumerism. No one takes an active approach to anything as far as civics go. Unless its sensational stories such as this one, for which thank the earth i’ve provided a red herring for, being as these comments are now more interesting then the story itself, but i digress. You sir. are a pacified human being. with your house, two car garage and neckties. You vote, and you feel good about yourself. You have a flat screen TV and you watch your netflix on it. You have a couple beers, you take the edge off. you probably don’t sleep with your wife, and you call it a night. when was the last time lived? how many more years do you have? wake up. and go crazy.I don’t hate anyone. I feel bad for you and i hope my life is never like yours as such where i would sympathize with you. but i don’t hate you. you are my brother. I’m by no means a communist or a fascist (i don’t know why i have to distinguish between the two. but for some reason i’m sure you think they’re right next to each other on the Hans Slomp project) my political philosophies have yet to be tested and are themselves rather new, they will emerge when this civilization becomes too heavy and collapses on itself. Americans think they’re eternal, and the final evolutionary epoch of government, as did the romans, the turks, the chinese dynasty and every other civilization that has collapsed. Again i don’t wish harm to any of you. your doing it yourself! i don’t have to expedite this. your doing it yourself! maybe if any of you were a little more introspective you could turn the tide of history. but your not and this epoch is on its death rows. hate to break it to you. bush crippled capitalism. it ain’t soming back. and because of your increasingly poor decisions, your children will be worse off then you. for the first time in american history a selfish generation has made it worse for their children. I see this. and i’ll make damn sure it won’t be worse for mine.
and thank the earth you guys aren’t subsidizing my education. I’m not from this state. If anything i contribute more to your economy than you contribute to mine. have fun you guys! I got my whole life ahead of me. you guys got a couple of decades we’ll see who wins out in the end. Your selfish ideologies are alienating you from your children and the youth.
haha i’m sorry. i can’t stop laughing in your faces as you people ignorantly bring about the change you don’t want. By not ceding anything, your gonna lose everything. It won’t come from inside America but from continents like asia, and south america, and africa. the very continents you guys are rejecting as poor and lazy and ignorant. this is too funny. I haven’t spoken with people like you in so long. the salt of the earth. intolerant, ignorant and as bigoted as ever.
This prof is a truly an idiot outside of his field.
For those who are unaware the following:
Union of Concerned Scientists is an office with a few administrators and several dozen PhD’s who advise. There is no vast huge union as it pretends.
As of 2006 there were ONLY 200 (more or less) actual Climate Scientists WORLDWIDE. and the vast majority were completely quiet about Glowarming.
Mann et al’s “Hockey Stick” theory has been completely and utterly destroyed. That paper actually threw out any data which would disprove the theory. After being disproved the website Mann had posted it on suddenly removed the data.
IPCC is corrupt and NOT a single member of its various panels of scientists are allowed to review any papers other than those published by glowarmers A number of various chapter heads have resigned as a result of the phoniness of its reports.
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For the third time I will ask the Young Conservatives of Louisiana to post the full, 50 minute video of this lecture to place the correct context. By cherry picking statements a good editor can make anyone appear to be wild and outrageous. I know that the full video will clear Schaefer’s name. I also know that your refusal to post the full video shows that you agree with my previous statement
We have access to the full video. We’ve watched it. It doesn’t disprove anything CampusReform.org has said. And after the third installment of the excerpt, we’ll be posting the full video in which we can hear Schaefer’s lecture on global warming and readers are welcome at that time to decide whether they believe he offered a “balanced” presentation.
This blathering jackdaw presumes to present three arbitrary and artificial categories of approach to the so-called “global warming” issue — there are a number of arbitrary items in the middle box, but there are only three boxes — like all elitist control freaks, in imposing his views on others, he lacks the capacity to accept the tremendous diversity that characterizes humans.
I note that early on, a student (one from the far liberal side of the room) asked him where HE would sit in the room, and he responded, “I don’t know.” But he then presumes to berate others for THEIR choices.
As long as our young are being “taught” (propagandized) by people like this, who have no grounding in pragmatic life achievements — in actually making things happen for humanity — we can expect crazier and crazier cultural trends with each succeeding generation.
And he cites as authority for his argument a freaking bomb of a movie called “Waterworld”?
This freak has NO PLACE teaching ANYONE!
FIRE HIS ASS NOW!
Earth to Schaeffer — the legislature is looking and listening. Cuts in higher education are hanging in the balance.
Go to your telescope. See that giant axe descending?
It has your name on it!
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Should really watch the entire video where he ‘picks on’ people on both sides of this issue—
http://vimeo.com/16649140
He also made fun of the ‘liberals’ for wanting to get rid of the gas engine in the video…. but go ahead and just edit that out and only show what supports your silly cause.
You neocons wouldn’t understand a class situation like this since you never went to anything past 5th grade— this type of discussion is meant to get the kids to THINK and discuss the issue at hand.
Go outside and stay there all this week since you don’t believe in climate change– let me know how that works out for ya!
Climate change IS real and IS happening and mankind is greatly to blame — but go ahead and just pray that your friend in the sky sends the jesus down to take you away soon so it won’t matter anyway… lol