PragerU “University” is a conservative think tank and astroturf fake university spewing anti science nonsense on YouTube.
Promoting the policies that support an ideology is a right, but denying hard science in support of that ideology is a no-no. And that's what you'll find from PragerU, one of the web's best funded and most comprehensive attacks on climate science. Resources like this are a very real problem for science, because they have the expertise and the means to change people's minds, but lack the ethics to change those minds for the better.
These videos, a sewer stream of biased wingnut alt right propaganda with the mandatory drops of conspiracy theories, fear mongering, creationist nonsense and fossil fuels and free marked fundamentalist Ayn Rand worship, are even so creepy YouTube wont have them;
“A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Google filed by the conservative educational site PragerU that alleged the internet giant was censoring its YouTube videos.”
Judge dismisses lawsuit alleging Google censorship of conservative YouTube videos
One can only wonder how batshit crazy it takes to be rejected by YouTube. I look at this as an important step on the road to “fight fake news and conspiracy theorists by linking to reputable articles”.
YouTube will fight fake news and conspiracy theorists by linking to reputable articles
Who is this very old man in the PragerU video below (and attached to the question) attacking climate models and accusing hard working professionals for fraud?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZN2jt2cCU4
Who is this William Happer dude so eager to portrait C02 as “good for us?”
Is he funded by fossil fuels?
No kiddin’!!
William Happer, born 1939 (age 78–79), is a climate change denier and Professor of Physics at Princeton University, specialising in MRI imaging. He has no training in climate science. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of the George C. Marshall Institute and is on the Academic Advisory Council of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a denier think tank.
William Happer - SourceWatch
And let me warn you…this one is ugly!! This is after the same playbook tobacco industry used to play down the dangers of tobacco smoking.
Greenpeace exposes sceptics hired to cast doubt on climate science
“Sting operation uncovers two prominent climate sceptics available for hire by the hour to write reports on the benefits of rising CO2 levels and coal.”
“Happer wrote in an email that his fee was $250 an hour and that it would require four days of work – a total of $8,000. “Depending on how extensive a document you have in mind, the time required or cost could be more or less, but I hope this gives you some idea of what I would expect if we were to proceed on some mutually agreeable course,” he wrote.”
“Our research reveals that professors at prestigious universities can be sponsored by foreign fossil fuel companies to write reports that sow doubt about climate change and that this sponsorship will then be kept secret,” said John Sauven, the director of Greenpeace UK. “Down the years, how many scientific reports that sowed public doubt on climate change were actually funded by oil, coal and gas companies? This investigation shows how they do it, now we need to know when and where they did it.”
Greenpeace exposes sceptics hired to cast doubt on climate science
I know I didn’t have to tell you Happer is funded by the most anti science front group in the world, the one and only..
Leak exposes how Heartland Institute works to undermine climate science
This video debunks Happer so brutally you gonna need glasses::
https://youtu.be/Q6iLPQ16mXY
MY DEBUNK of HAPPERS CLAIMS:
Why Happer is wrong about climate models:
Roger Fjellstad Olsen's answer to How many past long term predictions about global warming/climate change are true versus false?
Why Happer is wrong about “C02 is good for us”.
Roger Fjellstad Olsen's answer to Why does the increase in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have ill effects on life?
Is C02 a pollutant? C02 is many things, but also a pollutant. Think of it as the oceans. When the waters are in the oceans, its all good. But if the waters in the oceans floods your home, its a bad thing .
The US supreme court ruled that carbon dioxide is a pollutant in a landmark 2007 case.
Happer is simply a talking head for the polluters industry paid to talk down the dangers of climate change and to portrait C02 as a “gift from God”. The tobacco industry had similar fake experts to talk down the dangers of tobacco smoking.
"As early as the 1950s, the groups shared scientists and publicists to downplay dangers of smoking and climate change".
Tobacco and Oil Industries Used Same Researchers to Sway Public
Here we see Happer doing his routine:
https://youtu.be/wDdoZ86lKu4
An old smoking commercial:
https://youtu.be/gCMzjJjuxQI
And am I over my head for comparing Heartland with tobacco denial?
Not all all. Are they still denying the hazards of tobacco smoking!! Im kiddin’ right?
No, im not. Tobacco giant Philip Morris have funded Heartland for a long time.
Heart of the matter
Just a few clicks away from their page on Happer, we find this:
Heartland Institute 2019:
"The public health community's campaign to demonize smokers and all forms of tobacco is based on junk science".
"The anti-smoking movement is hardly a grassroots phenomenon: It is largely funded by taxpayers and a few major foundations with left-liberal agendas."
“The association between tobacco smoke and coronary heart disease and lung cancer may be considerably weaker than generally believed.”
"There are many reasons to be skeptical about what professional anti-smoking advocates say. They personally profit by exaggerating the health threats of smoking and winning passage of higher taxes and bans on smoking in public places."
Even asbestos is harmless acording to Heartland:
"As is often the case with environmental scares, the asbestos “cure” was pushed well ahead of a complete diagnosis. Research has confirmed that asbestos workers who do not use protective breathing apparatus suffer increased health risks. For the remaining 99+ percent of the U.S. population, however, asbestos health risks are virtually nil."
https://www.heartland.org/Alcohol-Tobacco/Smokers-Lounge/index.html
https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/testimony-on-asbestos-litigation-1
Roger Fjellstad Olsen's answer to Why is opposition to climate science more common in the United States than other countries?
LETS ALSO DO A BACKGROUND CHECK ON THE HOMOPHOBIC, CONSPIRANOID ANTI ABORTION CREATIONIST BEHIND PRAGERU:
Dennis Prager is a neoconservative radio host, professional tone troll, and conspiracy theorist who believes that the United States is a Christian nation, and that it's under attack from "secular leftists" who control the media, universities, public education system, and other institutions. Despite being a fairly extreme conservative, to the point of being a weekly WND columnist, he does moderate on certain issues such as abortion and, to his credit, he does seem to know quite a bit about religion and aspects of United States history.
Dennis Prager - RationalWiki
Dennis Prager denying evolution:
“Honest atheists – scientists and lay people – must now acknowledge that science itself argues overwhelmingly for a Designing Intelligence. […] To posit the existence of a Creator requires only reason. To posit the existence of a good God requires faith.”
Why some scientists embrace the 'multiverse' - WND
Dennis Prager Thinks Gay Marriage Bigger Threat Than Bad Economy.
Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9A9sVV24gA
PragerU and their creepy anti abortion propaganda:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMwkQVpy98A
PRAGERU FUNDING :
“PragerU has been generously funded by two of the richest men in the United States, billionaire brothers Dan and Farris Wilks, who made their fortunes in fracking. Farris Wilks is also the pastor of the Assembly of Yahweh Seventh Day Church near Cisco, a conservative Messianic Israelite church that was founded by his parents in 1947. The church takes a literal approach to the Bible, considering it historically and scientifically accurate. So much so, that in fact, they think homosexuality and abortion (including in cases of rape and incest) should be convictable crimes.
Farris Wilks has called homosexuality
“a perversion tantamount to bestiality, pedophilia and incest.”
The Wilks brothers also believe in a sinister “gay agenda” that is held up by evildoers in order to curse the younger generation.
Yeah… no surprise that these are the folks funding PragerU.”
Yusoof Monawvil's answer to Who funds PragerU?
Fracking Titans Spend Millions Proselytizing School Children - Rewire.News
Fracking Titans Bankrolling Right-Wing Indoctrination Effort in Schools: Investigation
Science investigator and rational thinker Aron Raa speaks about Prager:
https://youtu.be/bkTz_4RInf0
BONUS
OTHER PRAGERU DEBUNKS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XIpTqbLR5Y
My own Patrick Moore debunk:
Roger Fjellstad Olsen's answer to Why would the founder of Greenpeace suggest there is no evidence of man-made global warming?
Brilliant rational takedowns of PragerU:
https://youtu.be/loEpgp_Q-SAhttps://youtu.be/ScugV3GnB30
Promoting the policies that support an ideology is a right, but denying hard science in support of that ideology is a no-no. And that's what you'll find from PragerU, one of the web's best funded and most comprehensive attacks on climate science. Resources like this are a very real problem for science, because they have the expertise and the means to change people's minds, but lack the ethics to change those minds for the better.
These videos, a sewer stream of biased wingnut alt right propaganda with the mandatory drops of conspiracy theories, fear mongering, creationist nonsense and fossil fuels and free marked fundamentalist Ayn Rand worship, are even so creepy YouTube wont have them;
“A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Google filed by the conservative educational site PragerU that alleged the internet giant was censoring its YouTube videos.”
Judge dismisses lawsuit alleging Google censorship of conservative YouTube videos
One can only wonder how batshit crazy it takes to be rejected by YouTube. I look at this as an important step on the road to “fight fake news and conspiracy theorists by linking to reputable articles”.
YouTube will fight fake news and conspiracy theorists by linking to reputable articles
Who is this very old man in the PragerU video below (and attached to the question) attacking climate models and accusing hard working professionals for fraud?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZN2jt2cCU4
Who is this William Happer dude so eager to portrait C02 as “good for us?”
Is he funded by fossil fuels?
No kiddin’!!
William Happer, born 1939 (age 78–79), is a climate change denier and Professor of Physics at Princeton University, specialising in MRI imaging. He has no training in climate science. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of the George C. Marshall Institute and is on the Academic Advisory Council of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a denier think tank.
William Happer - SourceWatch
And let me warn you…this one is ugly!! This is after the same playbook tobacco industry used to play down the dangers of tobacco smoking.
Greenpeace exposes sceptics hired to cast doubt on climate science
“Sting operation uncovers two prominent climate sceptics available for hire by the hour to write reports on the benefits of rising CO2 levels and coal.”
“Happer wrote in an email that his fee was $250 an hour and that it would require four days of work – a total of $8,000. “Depending on how extensive a document you have in mind, the time required or cost could be more or less, but I hope this gives you some idea of what I would expect if we were to proceed on some mutually agreeable course,” he wrote.”
“Our research reveals that professors at prestigious universities can be sponsored by foreign fossil fuel companies to write reports that sow doubt about climate change and that this sponsorship will then be kept secret,” said John Sauven, the director of Greenpeace UK. “Down the years, how many scientific reports that sowed public doubt on climate change were actually funded by oil, coal and gas companies? This investigation shows how they do it, now we need to know when and where they did it.”
Greenpeace exposes sceptics hired to cast doubt on climate science
I know I didn’t have to tell you Happer is funded by the most anti science front group in the world, the one and only..
Leak exposes how Heartland Institute works to undermine climate science
This video debunks Happer so brutally you gonna need glasses::
https://youtu.be/Q6iLPQ16mXY
MY DEBUNK of HAPPERS CLAIMS:
Why Happer is wrong about climate models:
Roger Fjellstad Olsen's answer to How many past long term predictions about global warming/climate change are true versus false?
Why Happer is wrong about “C02 is good for us”.
Roger Fjellstad Olsen's answer to Why does the increase in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have ill effects on life?
Is C02 a pollutant? C02 is many things, but also a pollutant. Think of it as the oceans. When the waters are in the oceans, its all good. But if the waters in the oceans floods your home, its a bad thing .
The US supreme court ruled that carbon dioxide is a pollutant in a landmark 2007 case.
Happer is simply a talking head for the polluters industry paid to talk down the dangers of climate change and to portrait C02 as a “gift from God”. The tobacco industry had similar fake experts to talk down the dangers of tobacco smoking.
"As early as the 1950s, the groups shared scientists and publicists to downplay dangers of smoking and climate change".
Tobacco and Oil Industries Used Same Researchers to Sway Public
Here we see Happer doing his routine:
https://youtu.be/wDdoZ86lKu4
An old smoking commercial:
https://youtu.be/gCMzjJjuxQI
And am I over my head for comparing Heartland with tobacco denial?
Not all all. Are they still denying the hazards of tobacco smoking!! Im kiddin’ right?
No, im not. Tobacco giant Philip Morris have funded Heartland for a long time.
Heart of the matter
Just a few clicks away from their page on Happer, we find this:
Heartland Institute 2019:
"The public health community's campaign to demonize smokers and all forms of tobacco is based on junk science".
"The anti-smoking movement is hardly a grassroots phenomenon: It is largely funded by taxpayers and a few major foundations with left-liberal agendas."
“The association between tobacco smoke and coronary heart disease and lung cancer may be considerably weaker than generally believed.”
"There are many reasons to be skeptical about what professional anti-smoking advocates say. They personally profit by exaggerating the health threats of smoking and winning passage of higher taxes and bans on smoking in public places."
Even asbestos is harmless acording to Heartland:
"As is often the case with environmental scares, the asbestos “cure” was pushed well ahead of a complete diagnosis. Research has confirmed that asbestos workers who do not use protective breathing apparatus suffer increased health risks. For the remaining 99+ percent of the U.S. population, however, asbestos health risks are virtually nil."
https://www.heartland.org/Alcohol-Tobacco/Smokers-Lounge/index.html
https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/testimony-on-asbestos-litigation-1
Roger Fjellstad Olsen's answer to Why is opposition to climate science more common in the United States than other countries?
LETS ALSO DO A BACKGROUND CHECK ON THE HOMOPHOBIC, CONSPIRANOID ANTI ABORTION CREATIONIST BEHIND PRAGERU:
Dennis Prager is a neoconservative radio host, professional tone troll, and conspiracy theorist who believes that the United States is a Christian nation, and that it's under attack from "secular leftists" who control the media, universities, public education system, and other institutions. Despite being a fairly extreme conservative, to the point of being a weekly WND columnist, he does moderate on certain issues such as abortion and, to his credit, he does seem to know quite a bit about religion and aspects of United States history.
Dennis Prager - RationalWiki
Dennis Prager denying evolution:
“Honest atheists – scientists and lay people – must now acknowledge that science itself argues overwhelmingly for a Designing Intelligence. […] To posit the existence of a Creator requires only reason. To posit the existence of a good God requires faith.”
Why some scientists embrace the 'multiverse' - WND
Dennis Prager Thinks Gay Marriage Bigger Threat Than Bad Economy.
Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9A9sVV24gA
PragerU and their creepy anti abortion propaganda:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMwkQVpy98A
PRAGERU FUNDING :
“PragerU has been generously funded by two of the richest men in the United States, billionaire brothers Dan and Farris Wilks, who made their fortunes in fracking. Farris Wilks is also the pastor of the Assembly of Yahweh Seventh Day Church near Cisco, a conservative Messianic Israelite church that was founded by his parents in 1947. The church takes a literal approach to the Bible, considering it historically and scientifically accurate. So much so, that in fact, they think homosexuality and abortion (including in cases of rape and incest) should be convictable crimes.
Farris Wilks has called homosexuality
“a perversion tantamount to bestiality, pedophilia and incest.”
The Wilks brothers also believe in a sinister “gay agenda” that is held up by evildoers in order to curse the younger generation.
Yeah… no surprise that these are the folks funding PragerU.”
Yusoof Monawvil's answer to Who funds PragerU?
"The Wilks brothers manage Interstate Explorations, an oil and gas field services company based out of Texas, and recently sold shares in the fracking and oil services enterprise Frac Tech, making them worth $1.4 billion each. In total, the Wilks family has donated $6,550,000 to PragerU.
"The religious right seems to believe that the education system is the perfect battlefield to win this 'culture war' taking place in America," writes Shea. "While conservatives continue to push for privatization, efforts on public schools center on curriculum. Whether by pushing creationism, lowering comprehensive sexual education standards, or refusing Common Core, with resources like Prager University and financial supporters like the Wilks, their efforts have been enormously strengthened."
Fracking Titans Spend Millions Proselytizing School Children - Rewire.News
Fracking Titans Bankrolling Right-Wing Indoctrination Effort in Schools: Investigation
Science investigator and rational thinker Aron Raa speaks about Prager:
https://youtu.be/bkTz_4RInf0
BONUS
OTHER PRAGERU DEBUNKS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XIpTqbLR5Y
My own Patrick Moore debunk:
Roger Fjellstad Olsen's answer to Why would the founder of Greenpeace suggest there is no evidence of man-made global warming?
Brilliant rational takedowns of PragerU:
https://youtu.be/loEpgp_Q-SAhttps://youtu.be/ScugV3GnB30
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