Your Higher Ed Tax Dollars At Work
On a day when a few hundred students protested at Louisiana’s state capitol in an effort to stave off cuts in funding to public colleges, we have an example of what it is we’re actually funding.
This was uploaded to YouTube on Monday after a rather interesting lecture sesssion by Dr. Bradley Schaeffer, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at LSU…
Whether Schaeffer’s accusatory global-warming rants have anything to do with astronomy or not, they apparently earn him a salary of $92,000 per year, with three months’ vacation.
To think a public university does not have waste which can be cut is intellectually dishonest.
How interesting! An astronomy professor should know better than anyone that the sun has cycles within cycles, and that they are poorly understood. For example: In 2008 there were 266 days where no sunspots were observed. Some said the solar cycle had hit bottom. Then it went even lower in 2009 corresponding to the coolest August on record.
The hippies have been trying to link industrial activity (which they hate) to climate since at least 1971. It didn’t work then and it doesn’t work now. For a so-called “scientist” to sit in front of his class and spew that shit is fraud; a firing offense.
Charlie
Interestingly enough, Schaefer spent quite some time talking about the sun’s cycles and how they don’t account for the net rise in global temperatures. Of course, this heavily edited video didn’t have time to include such scientific discussions but only focused on his quirky behavior.
Actually, the author of the article has it wrong. Professors are typically paid for 9 months and have to earn the other 3 months through grants. So technically, yes, Schaeffer does get three months “vacation”, but it is without pay.
OK so he gets paid 92K for 9 months of work…six one half dozen another
Dr. Schaeffer is one of many LSU science professors who preach this Eco-Marxism. I should know because I was a research student at the LSU Dept of Chemistry. My prof was a CA liberal who sat in the hammock in his office all day. This is why I left LSU. They are now the “flagship” of overpriced loony liberal professors and wasteful spending.
Look, I’m all about conserving – I drive a Prius for heaven’s sake! Don’t ram it down the throats of students in an astronomy class though! If someone is interested in the topic, he will enroll in the class. ASTRONOMY should be taught in an astronomy class. C’mon LSU, it’s time to dump this “professor.”
Wonderful. A great example of blanketing generalization in order to make the cuts to higher education look like a good thing while ignoring that despite this guy’s antics, LSU is a surprisingly conservative institution overall. The only thing “intellectually dishonest” here is using this video with its ominous, terrifying music as some kind of general idea of how money is “wasted” in higher education. I suppose the next time we see a similar video made by liberals at a Republican rally cherry-picking comments we can assume that the vast majority of conservatives are dumb and possibly racist.
A debate needs to be made but I’d prefer it to be done the “right” way and not with sensationalistic mud-slinging.
It’s obvious what the man’s problem is…..he’s from Massachusetts
This is an attack of the person, not the professor’s ideas.
I was in that class, in fact I was one of the speakers in the debate. This video is heavily edited to make Schaefer look bad. That is NOT what the class was like at all. The video cuts out all the hard facts he presented and the majority of the debate. While I agree how Schaefer treated the last speaker was unfair, the rest of the class was informative and logically sound. For the “Young COnservatives” to edit this video this way is a slanderous LIE.
The class was informative, educational, and in know way was trying to push a political agenda or “indoctrinate” students. The video shows Schaefer’s emotional pleas but leaves out his logical science. This is a misrepresentation of an excellent professor and I am ashamed that my classmates would lie like this.
Uhh yeah. His edited comments ie the conclusion that India and Paki will nuke us defies a rational rationale. Hell you can put baby puppies on the projector screen and do the same thing. Hype all hyperbole. You were punked, with eyes wide shut.
The majority of the overblown statements presented in this video were exaggerated examples used to make a point. It was obvious, sitting in the lecture, when Schaefer was speaking science and when he was using hyperbole. I’d like to encourage the Young Conservatives of Louisiana to post the entire, unedited, 50minute video of the lecture and debate to put the whole thing in proper context
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Dr. Shaeffer is an excellent teacher from whom I have had the pleasure of learning. It is interesting that the comments written seem to express an outrage about a teacher of science presenting a commentary on something directly related to his field. There are many impassioned debates in other classes (English, law, philosophy) on related topics. How unfortunate that a teacher who actually has knowledge on the subject is criticized while others who have taken only the basic science classes required for their undergraduate degree are allowed to debate something of which they know nothing. Put the shoe on the other foot for a second. As has been mentioned, LSU is, for the most part, a conservative university. I majored in agriculture and was constantly hit by professors’ opinions on the “falsehood” of global warming, liberal politicians’ “evil agendas”, and the mechanisms by which hippies have ruined our country. So, why didn’t I try to have those professors fired like some who have commented below have suggested? It is because I consider it an act of cowardice to try to get rid of those who have a different opinion than myself. Listen to the whole lecture, study your astronomy from someone besides Glenn Beck, and then form an opinion for yourself. How unfortunate that a man who is one of the foremost experts on astronomy can’t talk about the damn sun.