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University Offering Free Online Course to Demolish Climate Denial

posted by CoolHand on Sunday April 26 2015, @01:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the denial-is-a-river-in-egypt dept.

aristarchus writes:

So, it has come to this! Universities are now offering courses on how to argue against climate change denialists! (Note, even mentioning such courses could be illegal in Florida, but fortunately this is in Australia.)

Starting 28 April, 2015, the University of Queensland is offering a free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) aimed at “Making Sense of Climate Science Denial”.

You know you've made it when they start teaching about you in college! Well done, climate change deniers!!!
And a MOOC? Hmmm, is there a "certificate" one might earn?

 
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  • (Score: 2) by fritsd on Sunday April 26 2015, @04:50PM

    by fritsd (4586) on Sunday April 26 2015, @04:50PM (#175374) Journal

    You mean they have a course on how to be a specific kind of dick?

    No.

    A chemist can follow a course on pharmacochemistry, that doesn't make it a course on "how to poison people".

    A physicist can follow a course on ballistics, that doesn't make it a course on "how to shoot people".

    And a psychologist can follow a course on climate change denialism as a social/psychological phenomenon, that doesn't make it a course on "how to be a specific kind of dick".

    I bet there are also theology courses on the Bhagwan [wikipedia.org] or on Lou de Palingboer [wikipedia.org], that doesn't make it a course on "how to be a rich and sexually gratified religious leader". Hm.. maybe that topic needs further study...

    I think this exemplifies the distinction between a university and a technical highschool: a university also teaches those subjects that are not of immediate or obvious use, like molecular quantum chemistry or cosmology or philology.

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