TRUTH IN ACADEMIA Published Monday, June 17, 2024 NO MEETING THIS WEEK NEXT MEETING June 26 MARK McCLOSKY BOB LINN Pressing forTruth in Academia TRIUMPH The most profoundly important message of last Wednesday’s meeting was that the earth is a theater of victory for the Church. More than thirty years ago, George Soros initiated a well-funded strategy to capture the mind of the Evangelical Church. He sought them as a partner in his politically-based climate movement's hysteria. The faithfulness of one man, Cal Beisner, employed the power of the pen to bring the Soros mission to its knees. Dr. Beisner, a theologian with a Ph.D. in history, teamed with seventy of the world’s leading climatologists, natural scientists, economists, philosophers, theologians, and policy experts to address the hard science of climate. The men above, proponents of truth and human flourishing, are part of a much larger team who have known the victory which all God's people should learn to expect. They are a model for us. The globalists in search of power lost the control they sought for the church's support of their political agenda. See the report they wrote regarding their failure to penetrate the church here. Dr. Beisner is mentioned prominently especially on page six. The climate posture of the World Economic Forum (WEF), the United Nations (UN), the White House, and our Oklahoma public schools are indefensible in the face of scholarship. Last week, I wrote about Dr. Patrick Brown, who stated publicly that he removed much of the important research from his submission to Nature Magazine so that it would appear to comply with the publication's political posture of a soon-coming climate catastrophe. In the same article, I noted the famous article by Dr. John Ioannidis of Stanford titled: Why Most Published Research Findings Are False. DR. JULIAN SIMON Challenging Disinformation in Academia In 1995, Dr. Julian Simon mused about the widespread disinformation at all levels of academia, government, and the media regarding planetary issues. He often challenged the doomsayers of eschatological tragedy to wager on their dark forecasts versus his optimistic ones. Because they would never wager, he asked: Do they really believe the dire forecasts they make, or do they just make statements they don’t believe in order to scare the public and mobilize the government to do their will? See his book, The State of Humanity. THE FAILED ANALYSIS OF THE 1980 GLOBAL REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES RONALD REAGAN Page one of the 1980 Global Report 2000 to the President stated, in part, that: The world in 2000 will be more crowded, more polluted, less stable ecologically, and more vulnerable to disruption than the world we live in now. Life for most people on earth will be more precarious in 2000 than it is now. Dr. Julian Simon and Dr. Herman Kahn in their book, The Resourceful Earth, A Response to Global 2000, (1984) restated that paragraph, contradicting each point as follows: The world in 2000 will be LESS crowded (though more populated), LESS polluted, MORE stable ecologically, and LESS vulnerable to disruption than the world we live in now. Life for most people on earth will be LESS precarious in 2000 than it is now. The world’s people will be richer in most ways than they are today. A decade later (1995), Dr. Simon published his nearly 700-page The State of Humanity. Dr. Calvin Beisner was the managing editor. In the book, Dr. Simon reflects on the contrast of the doomsday report given to President Reagan in 2000 and the optimism of his own: The years have been kind to our forecasts – more importantly, the years have been good for humanity. Our species is better off in just about every measurable way. There is stronger reason than ever to believe that these progressive trends will continue indefinitely. The complete failure of the dire forecasts of the doomsayers, starting in the 1960s and continuing through the 1980 Global 2000 Report until now should confer credibility to our optimism. Regrettably, however, the doomsayer’s failure has not reduced the frequency of forecasts of doom or sapped the reputations or influence of forecasters. They all have an equally atrocious record. Speaking of climate issues, he states: The record of the doomsayers in forecasting such matters is atrocious. Remember that only a decade or so before the global warning scare got going – in the middle 1970s-the very persons and institutions that now scold us about taking action to reduce global warming were raising the alarm about global cooling. That is, it took only about a decade for the switch from one scenario of doom to the opposite. The worriers about cooling included Science, the most influential scientific journal in the world, quoting an official of the World Meteorological Organization; the National Academy of Sciences worrying about the onset of a 10,000 year ice age; Newsweek, warning that food production could be adversely affected within a decade; the New York Times quoting an official of the National Center for Atmospheric Research; and Science Digest, the science periodical with the largest circulation, writing that: “The world’s climatologists are agreed on only two things: That we do not have a comfortable distance of tens of thousands of years to prepare for the next ice age, and that how carefully we monitor our atmospheric pollution will have a direct bearing on the arrival and nature of this weather crisis. The sooner man confronts these facts, these scientists say, the safer he’ll be. Once the freeze starts, it will be too late.” Now, ask yourself: How reliable could the evidence for the cooling alarm have been? And in connection with that answer, how reliable could be the evidence for the warming alarm of the 1990s, given that it is mostly composed of exactly the same records over many centuries that made up the evidence for the earlier cooling alarm? During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ~ George Orwell. As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said, "Don't live by lies." God bless. ______________ GOVERNOR KEVIN STITT VETO On the last day of session, Speaker Charles McCall and Mark McBride promoted a bill that removed from Ryan Walters the authority over federal funding of education. Section 15 of the legislation (SB1122) placed that authority not under the legislature, but under the Speaker of the House and the Pro Temp of the Senate. Section 16 of SB1122 placed restrictions on Ryan Walter's ability to communicate with the public. Restrictions non-existent on any other state agency including the Oklahoma Legislature itself. This concern over Ryan's public presence in spite of the fact that the expenditures for public communication under Ryan Walters is $200,000 per year compared to the $800,000 Joy Hofmeister spent in her last year in that same office. Last Friday morning, the Governor vetoed both sections. You may see the Governor's comments in his letter here. _________________ TINKER FEDERAL CREDIT UNION IS SHOWING ITS VALUES Ryan Walters and the State Department of Education do not mesh with the cultural values Tinker Federal Credit Union (TFCU) wishes to support, so they are removing their support of the upcoming INSPIREOK event. Like the National Teachers Association (NEA/OEA), TFCU values lie elsewhere. IF YOU MISSED LAST WEEK . . . DR. CAL BEISNER Watch Dr. Beisner speak here. Watch the entire meeting here. COMING!!! 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