The Way Scandal

[skyrider]

Like all scandals....there are the perpetrators, the enablers and the victims.

Had wierwille not meshed it so inclusively in those early years with "serving God"......I would like to think that I would have sniffed it out much more quickly. But I didn't. When I saw some disturbing things in 1978, 1979 and years follwing, I kept DENYING WHAT I SAW. After all, twi was conditioning me that one of the four fronts of the adversary was....ME.

I simply was not seeing things clearly.

I shouldn't be thinking evil of twi leadership.

The mog-wierwille constantly walks with God.

Even though some of my close friends/co-workers were leaving hq staff.....they just didn't have the commitment level to really serve the Lord. Right? Twi has always been a revolving door. But I would focus on the good, and refuse to murmur or dissent, because that's what I was taught. If twi's research is in error, they SAID they'd fix it. Right?

If only I'd been paying closer attention.....

Yeah......I woulda got out earlier.

Yeah......I shoulda got out earlier.

Yeah......I coulda got out earlier.

But I didn't......

So that's one of the reasons why I've posted here at GS for the past 10 years to help others see THE WAY SCANDAL. Perhaps, it's of little consequence to do so.....but I hope that my contributions help others dismantle this hoax to the point where it holds no power anymore.

I won't get fooled again.....!!!

BESIDES.......others in life see scandals as well.

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Harold Lewis is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Here is his letter of resignation to Curtis G. Callan Jr, Princeton University, President of the American Physical Society.

Anthony Watts describes it thus:

This is an important moment in science history. I would describe it as a letter on the scale of Martin Luther, nailing his 95 theses to the Wittenburg church door. It is worthy of repeating this letter in entirety on every blog that discusses science.

It’s so utterly damning that I’m going to run it in full without further comment. (H/T GWPF, Richard Brearley).

Dear Curt:

When I first joined the American Physical Society sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the money flood (a threat against which Dwight Eisenhower warned a half-century ago). Indeed, the choice of physics as a profession was then a guarantor of a life of poverty and abstinence—it was World War II that changed all that. The prospect of worldly gain drove few physicists. As recently as thirty-five years ago, when I chaired the first APS study of a contentious social/scientific issue, The Reactor Safety Study, though there were zealots aplenty on the outside there was no hint of inordinate pressure on us as physicists. We were therefore able to produce what I believe was and is an honest appraisal of the situation at that time. We were further enabled by the presence of an oversight committee consisting of Pief Panofsky, Vicki Weisskopf, and Hans Bethe, all towering physicists beyond reproach. I was proud of what we did in a charged atmosphere. In the end the oversight committee, in its report to the APS President, noted the complete independence in which we did the job, and predicted that the report would be attacked from both sides. What greater tribute could there be?

How different it is now. The giants no longer walk the earth, and the money flood has become the raison d’être of much physics research, the vital sustenance of much more, and it provides the support for untold numbers of professional jobs. For reasons that will soon become clear my former pride at being an APS Fellow all these years has been turned into shame, and I am forced, with no pleasure at all, to offer you my resignation from the Society.

It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare. (Montford’s book organizes the facts very well.) I don’t believe that any real physicist, nay scientist, can read that stuff without revulsion. I would almost make that revulsion a definition of the word scientist.

So what has the APS, as an organization, done in the face of this challenge? It has accepted the corruption as the norm, and gone along with it. For example:

1. About a year ago a few of us sent an e-mail on the subject to a fraction of the membership. APS ignored the issues, but the then President immediately launched a hostile investigation of where we got the e-mail addresses. In its better days, APS used to encourage discussion of important issues, and indeed the Constitution cites that as its principal purpose. No more. Everything that has been done in the last year has been designed to silence debate

2. The appallingly tendentious APS statement on Climate Change was apparently written in a hurry by a few people over lunch, and is certainly not representative of the talents of APS members as I have long known them. So a few of us petitioned the Council to reconsider it. One of the outstanding marks of (in)distinction in the Statement was the poison word incontrovertible, which describes few items in physics, certainly not this one. In response APS appointed a secret committee that never met, never troubled to speak to any skeptics, yet endorsed the Statement in its entirety. (They did admit that the tone was a bit strong, but amazingly kept the poison word incontrovertible to describe the evidence, a position supported by no one.) In the end, the Council kept the original statement, word for word, but approved a far longer “explanatory” screed, admitting that there were uncertainties, but brushing them aside to give blanket approval to the original. The original Statement, which still stands as the APS position, also contains what I consider pompous and asinine advice to all world governments, as if the APS were master of the universe. It is not, and I am embarrassed that our leaders seem to think it is. This is not fun and games, these are serious matters involving vast fractions of our national substance, and the reputation of the Society as a scientific society is at stake.

3. In the interim the ClimateGate scandal broke into the news, and the machinations of the principal alarmists were revealed to the world. It was a fraud on a scale I have never seen, and I lack the words to describe its enormity. Effect on the APS position: none. None at all. This is not science; other forces are at work.

4. So a few of us tried to bring science into the act (that is, after all, the alleged and historic purpose of APS), and collected the necessary 200+ signatures to bring to the Council a proposal for a Topical Group on Climate Science, thinking that open discussion of the scientific issues, in the best tradition of physics, would be beneficial to all, and also a contribution to the nation. I might note that it was not easy to collect the signatures, since you denied us the use of the APS membership list. We conformed in every way with the requirements of the APS Constitution, and described in great detail what we had in mind—simply to bring the subject into the open.<

5. To our amazement, Constitution be damned, you declined to accept our petition, but instead used your own control of the mailing list to run a poll on the members’ interest in a TG on Climate and the Environment. You did ask the members if they would sign a petition to form a TG on your yet-to-be-defined subject, but provided no petition, and got lots of affirmative responses. (If you had asked about sex you would have gotten more expressions of interest.) There was of course no such petition or proposal, and you have now dropped the Environment part, so the whole matter is moot. (Any lawyer will tell you that you cannot collect signatures on a vague petition, and then fill in whatever you like.) The entire purpose of this exercise was to avoid your constitutional responsibility to take our petition to the Council.

6. As of now you have formed still another secret and stacked committee to organize your own TG, simply ignoring our lawful petition.

APS management has gamed the problem from the beginning, to suppress serious conversation about the merits of the climate change claims. Do you wonder that I have lost confidence in the organization?

I do feel the need to add one note, and this is conjecture, since it is always risky to discuss other people’s motives. This scheming at APS HQ is so bizarre that there cannot be a simple explanation for it. Some have held that the physicists of today are not as smart as they used to be, but I don’t think that is an issue. I think it is the money, exactly what Eisenhower warned about a half-century ago. There are indeed trillions of dollars involved, to say nothing of the fame and glory (and frequent trips to exotic islands) that go with being a member of the club. Your own Physics Department (of which you are chairman) would lose millions a year if the global warming bubble burst. When Penn State absolved Mike Mann of wrongdoing, and the University of East Anglia did the same for Phil Jones, they cannot have been unaware of the financial penalty for doing otherwise. As the old saying goes, you don’t have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing. Since I am no philosopher, I’m not going to explore at just which point enlightened self-interest crosses the line into corruption, but a careful reading of the ClimateGate releases makes it clear that this is not an academic question.

I want no part of it, so please accept my resignation. APS no longer represents me, but I hope we are still friends.

Hal

Harold Lewis is Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, former Chairman; Former member Defense Science Board, chmn of Technology panel; Chairman DSB study on Nuclear Winter; Former member Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards; Former member, President’s Nuclear Safety Oversight Committee; Chairman APS study on Nuclear Reactor Safety

Chairman Risk Assessment Review Group; Co-founder and former Chairman of JASON; Former member USAF Scientific Advisory Board; Served in US Navy in WW II; books: Technological Risk (about, surprise, technological risk) and Why Flip a Coin (about decision making)

Tags: American Physical Society, Hal Lewis, resignation

[waysider]

"I kept DENYING WHAT I SAW. After all, twi was conditioning me that one of the four fronts of the adversary was....ME."

[Twinky]

One of the outstanding marks of (in)distinction in the Statement was the poison word incontrovertible, which describes few items...

The poison word...great phrase.

Looks like every collegiate body cult has its poison words....that describe little but serve greatly to differentiate and divide opinion.

(Doncha just love it when you get your quote marks wrong and have to edit?)

Edited October 10, 2010 by Twinky

[waysider]

The whole thing seems like a cheap cartoon, in retrospect.

Edited October 11, 2010 by waysider

[Broken Arrow]

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Edited October 11, 2010 by Broken Arrow

[skyrider]

Point by point, thread after thread.......GS takes off the mask of The Way Scandal.

Just like the professor of physics letter of resignation where he lays bare his reasons for RESIGNING....

1. Major issues ignored and a systematic silencing of debate

2. Elitism and bullying tactics to marginalize the truth

3. Manipulation, fraud, and other forces at work

4. Attempts to bring the subject into the open

5. Refusal of Council to address petitioners and abuses

6. Secret and stacked committees organized against us

SOUND FAMILIAR..??

And this physics professor gave 67 years of his life to this.........

[cheranne]

When I saw this post the first thing that came to mind was... Which One? I ask myself all the time WHY do I care anymore!!!

I see I am not alone at trying to prevent people from the damage of The Way International........my family tried to warn me in 1978,there were signs all over the place

of error,after Jonestown there was big question marks in my head,but the teaching by The Fat Rat at Emporia on The Psychological Hoax cleared that up and made us all (((STAND)))))ha ! More like LEAN on nothing else but WAY TRIBE,who all of us who sat in that auditorium were like hit with radiation to mind numbing thought patterns

of the teachings of "whatever" Leadership said especially Dr. Fat Rat..

Before I knew it I put all things behind me,listened to teaching tapes non stop,way productions music,and PFAL drilling a hole in my head like the coal mines in west virginia!

How could I be so self fish not to go WOW, I talk about it in a letter I sent to Dr. Weirwille on Love Letters.Cl@dette reads it and I am sooooooo excited to go out Wow

like a kid on too much sugar! Like a speed freak.

Said good bye to my dad and didn't talk to anyone else family members or not ..nothing was gonna stop me from Serving....and going down further and further into the PIT, drilling myself a hole so deep ...I may have as well dug a grave and threw myself in it,had I know in what the furture held, and the spiritual warfare had JUST began!

Thinking I was on the (((right side)))) the true believers....all 9 all the time I see how I was like hooked up like a battery charger via PFAL....on the field having all our needs met...well we didn't need much and the musk ox stood in a circle to protect us!

Boy ...........we were slammed dunked into this whole buisness,from the night I walked into my first twig after gettting a buzz at local bar(as if i was preparing my brain for the damage that was going to occur that night with the Change film(remember that...such a nice commercial..info commerical set to Way Production music,so nice and

beautiful....I want that!

Shhhhhhhhheeeessh

I had never opened a bible and just took the class and thought ....Oh okay I will take this with a grain of salt and a shot of tequila!

Don't ask questions, Don't write down questions ..................why didn't they just put a big L on our foreheads. So now that we have WISDOM!!!! ASK QUESTIONS

all you college people that were like me and if they say well........just take the class...you gotta take the class.

I can't believe I sold my 12 string guitar to have money for that stupid class!

Edited October 11, 2010 by cheranne

[Ham]

The four fronts of da adversary..

I think they were distractions, or explanations of evil which had another face- da mog..

[OldSkool]

The four fronts of da adversary..

I think they were distractions, or explanations of evil which had another face- da mog..

Ha!

Yep the ole' huckster sure worked all four of them, didn't he?

[Ham]

Oh yeah!

gawd forbid it was the guy quoting the bible and barking orders..

da mog should have been the first front, if they were honest..

but he was immune from that.. for the most part.

The WORST I heard any say in the organization- "well, his walk isn't exactly perfect.."

[OldSkool]

The WORST I heard any say in the organization- "well, his walk isn't exactly perfect.."

Good lord, that must be the euphemism of the ages. Considering his granddaughter confirmed the "rumors" to me I would say it was well known that he was a sexual predator.

[excathedra]

good frikkin lord i didn't just deny what i saw, i denied what i experienced

[excathedra]

ps. for some reason it did help me when vp died

maybe it was that father figure thing -- i have to think about it

i know i never thought of craig as my father lol and i only thought of geer as a halloween type movie figure -- the others just you know, you've seen one mog, you've seenm them all

[waysider]

- the others just you know, you've seen one mog, you've seen them all

I took the liberty of rephrasing this:

"If you've seen one "MOG", you've seen too many."