Day 31: Skinner Horror Files The ultimate trouble with Skinnerian “scientific, research-based” standards, outcome-based methods, and “common core” results If we as parents and citizens believe that the same “scientific, research-based” standards[2] applied to research in education and psychology are those applied to medicine, geology, or engineering, we are sadly mistaken. If we believe that […]
Archives for October 2014
Shaping Mankind’s Behavior
Day 30 : Skinner Horror Files The Horrible Truth Comes Out! In 1982, just as the Skinnerian machine was rolling full-speed ahead into the classrooms of America, THE COMPLETE WORKS OF FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER: A CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW was published.[1] In a treatise entitled “A Christian View of Philosophy and Culture: Back to Freedom and Dignity,” noted […]
Smart Growth a Dumb Deal for the Poor
In 1880, he was noticeable. Dressed in long coat and top hat, his one hand wielded a magic wand punctuating the elixir in the other. His concoction cured all from headaches, to “kidney trouble.” Today’s snake oiler is college educated, marketing savvy and lends an infectious passion to Smart Growth, the 21st Century solve-all. He […]
It’s Not Fearmongering or a Conspiracy Theory when Elitists Are on Record for 95% of the Population to be Eliminated
“If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.” ‑Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh, leader of the World Wildlife Fund Recently, we have posted a couple of articles at D.C. Clothesline that question the narrative of the current Ebola outbreak. D.C. Clothesline is […]
Secret Gopher Map Reveals Washington Agency’s Power
Fifth in a series on a new ESA listing. The author states there may be more coming in this series. A secret 2013 Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife map that was accidentally placed in Thurston County Planning‘s public files has been obtained by Watchdog Wire. The map purports to show locations of the newly […]
Hornbeck’s Horrors
Day 29: Skinner Horror Files Part 2: Trick or Treat? As mentioned in yesterday’s post, David Hornbeck’s “draft” plan for Iowa’s education transformation initiative, leaked to the press and dated September 19, 1990, told the whole story. It was a most comprehensive explanation of the Skinnerian totalitarian system applied to society. For the next 25 years Hornbeck […]
The Free Trade Deception Almost No One Understands
The seventh round of U.S./EU (TTIP) negotiations [began] September 29 in Chevy Chase, Maryland. If you have heard about the two huge free trade agreements — theTrans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) — being negotiated by the Obama administration, you probably think they have something to do with an attempt to […]
Skinner Arrives on Your Doorstep
Day 28: Skinner Horror Files Trick or Treat? In the Fall of 1990 a document was prematurely leaked to the Iowa public. This document was a landmark guide to understanding the direction that education reform would take in the decades to come. It was never intended to be reviewed by the public, but was supposed to remain […]