Bishop Hill draws attention to a newspaper article by the seasoned journalist Christopher Booker. He published this in the Daily Telegraph on 6th October (scroll down in the article to reach it):
"Debunking climate propaganda earns you a 'fail’
Two weeks ago I described one of this year’s A-level General Studies papers
which asked candidates to discuss various “source materials” on climate
change. Drawn from propaganda documents wholly biased in favour of climate
alarmism, these contained a plethora of scientific errors. I suggested that,
if any clued-up students tore these “sources” apart as they deserved, they
might have been given a “fail”.
Sure enough, an email from the mother of just such a student confirmed my
fears. Her son is “an excellent scientist” who got “straight As” on his
other science papers, but he is also “very knowledgeable about climate
change and very sceptical about man-made global warming”. His questioning of
the sources earned an “E”, the lowest possible score. His mother then paid
£60 for his paper to be re-marked. It was judged to be “articulate,
well-structured” and clearly well-informed, but again he was marked down
with “E” for fail.
This young man’s experience speaks volumes about the way the official
global-warming religion has so corrupted our education system that it has
parted company with proper scientific principles. In his efforts to reform
our dysfunctional exam system, Michael Gove should ask for this bizarre
episode to be investigated."
The earlier article to which he refers is reproduced in my Climate Curricula page on this website, and it can also be directly reached here - again with a requirement to scroll down to find the relevant paragraphs.
Let us hope that this is investigated further by the relevant minister, Michael Gove, and by any others who could provide chapter and verse on this and possibly other examples of intellectual corruption in our climate curriculum in the UK. The possibility of moral and political corruption is also present here, since it is clear that fear and anxiety can be generated by alarming tales involving CO2, and furthermore that particular political perspectives and actions are often tagged on.
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