The Global Leader in Science
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Trumpian anti-science is really insane when you think about it because it is a global power that is choosing quite specifically to not train its future leaders for reality because reality might be slightly inconvenient to some other rich people. Add to that Trumpian anti-education and, well, I think China is going to be the true global superpower here in about 5 minutes.
A science professor says he was fired from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, for refusing to ignore the human causes of climate change, and is now suing the institution in federal court.
Dr. Adam Kalkstein, a professor of geography, told The New York Times that the dean of West Point’s academic board, Brigadier General Shane Reeves, in a meeting last year ordered him to remove everything about human contributions to climate change, as President Trump sets the agenda as commander in chief. Kalkstein told Reeves that such a change would be immoral, and possibly illegal. When Reeves suggested Kalkstein resign, Kalkstein declined, after which the dean stormed out of the room.
“We’re only telling cadets part of the story. We’re lying to them, deceiving them. It would be like trying to teach the law without being able to even mention the Constitution,” Kalkstein reportedly said during the meeting, according to Stars and Stripes.
Six months later, Kalkstein, a tenured professor, was told his contract wouldn’t be renewed, and on Monday, he sued the institution in the Southern District of New York, alleging that his First Amendment rights were violated. The lawsuit states that the institution’s order would require Kalkstein “to omit a massive, fundamental, essential component of the court and to defy science.”
According to the Times, Kalkstein is a conservative Republican who believes military cadets need to know the truth about climate change for national security reasons rather than social justice. He wrote a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth arguing that knowing the causes of climate change was important for competing over resources in the Arctic and understanding why sea ice was melting.
The fact that Kalkstein identifies as a “conservative Republican,” whatever that means to him, is mildly amusing of course…I guess it was OK when the commies were getting fired for quoting Charlie Kirk’s words on social media or whatnot, but not for him to be for telling the truth. Well, whatever, but to just deny that climate change exists as a standard of governmental policy, well, again, what exactly is the future of the U.S. anyway?