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

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: 1) by khallow on Monday April 27 2015, @04:47AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 27 2015, @04:47AM (#175582) Journal
    That particular study is deeply in error [thegwpf.org] with a variety of flawed and possibly fraudulent procedures in there. For example, there was never a formal criteria for deciding what was a climate paper, what was meant by "expressed no position" (a number of skeptical papers were classified as "expressed no opinion"), and the emails of the reviewers was leaked indicating a variety of unscientific procedures associated with the paper (such as advertising the paper before the research was completed, basing decisions about a work's validity for inclusion in the research on the perceived ideological positions of the authors, and collaboration between reviewers).

    You should ask yourself why someone felt the need to produce such a work or why it was disseminated so widely?
  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Monday April 27 2015, @03:34PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 27 2015, @03:34PM (#175742) Journal
    Reading over the linked paper, it appears that the discussion was on a blog which was open to the outside world, not email.