As an aside (a related aside)
.... lets say you are the chair of "the department of <<<whatever the hell they call the environmental studies programs>>>" at some strong, but not great academic school. Say Virgina Tech, or Texas A&M, or University of Maryland, or ... whatever.... Question: what would be the way to catapult your program into truly elite status? Perhaps being THE skeptic school. No?
The university of Chicago was an elite school for economics in the 50s and 60s, but it became one of the most dominant schools in the world by being the site of the "chicago school of thought" when the EVERYONE was 1960s style "Keynesian". THey were the skeptics. They won (through the 80s and 90s at least) as skeptics.
You would think that there would be a top, or near-top school that would position itself as THE skeptic school in the current debate.. and perhaps there is--as I have said, i don't follows these issues very closely. BUT most of the sheer crap that gets blogged and then dutifully posted on forums like this comes from "Professor" (emeritus) Skeezits at east-north-dakota-state-community-college-of-animal-husbandry.
Why is that?
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