This is a video produced by the Free Congress Foundation during the 1990’s. The film examines the little known but highly influential Marxist group known as the Institute for Social Research (aka Frankfurt School). German Marxist philosophers gathered in Frankfurt, Germany in the 1920’s to give new life to Communist thought when most of the predictions made by orthodox Marxists of how international Communism would be achieved did not come true.

How Marxism is taught in most colleges and universities is due to the efforts of the Frankfurt School. Political correctness is one of the ideas floated by them helped spurn such Leftist causes such as anti-Vietnam organizations and the environmentalist movement. Ex-Marxist David Horowitz is also interviewed.

Dilbert creator, Scott Adams wrote a post on his blog yesterday that is well worth reading in entirety: The Non-Expert Problem and Climate Change Science

Adams notes:

It seems to me that a majority of experts could be wrong whenever you have a pattern that looks like this:

1. A theory has been “adjusted” in the past to maintain the conclusion even though the data has changed. For example, “Global warming” evolved to “climate change” because the models didn’t show universal warming.

2. Prediction models are complicated. When things are complicated you have more room for error. Climate science models are complicated.

3. The models require human judgement to decide how variables should be treated. This allows humans to “tune” the output to a desired end. This is the case with climate science models.

4. There is a severe social or economic penalty for having the “wrong” opinion in the field. As I…