Best of the Program | Guest: Susan Crockford | 11/5/19

All right,

today is a pretty good podcast.

Little did we know the Antichrist would call in today

and rap kind of an answer to Kanye, which I thought that was

unexpected.

Unexpected.

Also, an amazing story about how Mexico has just become a

narco-state.

It is a failed state.

Susan Crawford, the woman who does all the studies on polar bears, she lost her job because

she wasn't balanced.

Holy cow, wait until you hear this.

More on Hunter Biden and what

the DNC and the State Department knew about Hunter Biden just before Joe Biden actually gets onto a plane and demands the guy being fired.

It upends

everything.

And, of course, our Elon Omar update.

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At least three American mothers and six children

from

a little American Mormon community based in northern Mexico have been massacred in an attack blamed on drug cartel gunmen.

The victims belong to the LeBaron family.

They were ambushed about eight miles apart in the Mexican border state of Sonora on Monday.

At the time of the attack, 17 of the family members were traveling in three cars from La Mora, a breakaway settlement founded decades ago in Mexico.

There are reports that some of the family members, who were dual U.S.-Mexico citizens, were heading to celebrate a wedding anniversary in the United States.

Several members now of the family have described the horrific scenes, including how gunmen opened fire on one child running away and others burning to death inside the cars that they torched.

Other children managed to escape and hide by the roadside while one of their mothers was shot in the chest as she exited the car and put her hands up to surrender.

Relatives fear

many of the women and younger victims may have been raped.

One family member described how a boy managed to hide his wounded siblings, some less than a year old, in the bushes before he ran back to the nearby town to get help after his mother was gunned down.

The motive for the attack is not yet clear, although it is possible it was an attempted kidnapping.

A family member reported receiving a phone call hearing screams before they were executed.

The group had previous run-ins with organized crime cartel in the area, including one member being killed.

One family member, however, believes the recent attack was just a case of mistaken identity.

If you look at the children that were killed,

it is absolutely horrific.

Family members...

of Ronita Maria LeBaron was driving to Phoenix on Monday with her four children to pick up her husband, and then returned to Mexico to celebrate their wedding anniversary.

Relatives say her car had broken down when the gunmen opened fire and torched her vehicle, causing the gas tank to explode.

She was killed along with her twin six-month-old babies,

her ten-year-old daughter, and twelve-year-old son, Howard.

Eight miles away in different attacks, several other family members were gunned down.

Christina Johnson, 29

Donna Langford, 43.

Two of her children, Trevor 11, Rogan 3, also died when traveling in two other SUVs.

The family members say Christina saved her seven-month-old baby Faith's life by throwing the infant to the floor of the SUV as bullets tore through the vehicle.

Seven children survived, but suffered multiple gunshot wounds.

When is enough enough, America?

When

is enough enough?

A video posted by a relative on social media shows the charred remains of the Chevy Suburban.

It had been burned following an explosion with smoldering bullet holes visible in the paneling.

The male voice said, This is for the record.

Nita and four of my grandchildren were burnt to death and shot up.

Mexico is a failed state.

It is now a narco-state.

The drug cartels are in control.

We have a failed state on our border and no defense.

We have Americans going to a very dangerous state

because we fail to recognize it.

We don't.

The media and the politicians fail to recognize the danger on our border.

Two things should happen.

These were American citizens that were gunned down.

Two things should happen.

We need to build the wall.

And we need to change our drug laws.

It is because of our drug laws we have Chicago on the other side of the border.

Just like when we had prohibition in Chicago,

it feeds these fiends.

It feeds the evil.

Now here's the problem.

We live in a society that has absolutely no responsibility, absolutely no self-control.

The drugs are not just coming from Mexico.

The drugs are also coming from China.

And if you know anything about the opium war that England levied against China back in the 1800s,

it's easy to see, oh my gosh, they're doing the same exact same thing to us.

China is using the tactic used by Britain.

Great Britain went into Afghanistan and took all the opium and started selling it across the border and got the Chinese people just addicted to opium.

That's how they won the opium war.

China had nothing they could do other than surrender.

Stop, stop, stop, stop.

What are they doing to us today?

They're shipping opium over to us in mass quantities.

They are addicting our people.

And we are empowering the worst of the worst.

These are terrorist organizations.

And we are empowering them.

When are we going going to stop playing politics?

When are we going to start actually looking at actual facts?

I saw a story today about how bad our school systems are.

That we have the worst school systems now than we've ever had.

And I thought to myself, gee, I wonder if anybody's going to look into how we had the best school systems 100 years ago.

To the worst school systems that are spending the most amount of money in the entire world.

We spend more money on our schools than anybody else in the entire world.

And yet we get the worst results.

How is that possible?

It's possible because it's all designed by the federal government and it is all nothing but a bureaucracy.

Give the power back to the people.

It is it is astonishing to me, absolutely astonishing, that

in an era where everything is customized, everything is customized,

you can soon make your Tesla and change out the bodies.

Just leave, you wouldn't need a truck this week.

Don't go rent a truck.

You just go down to Tesla and they'll just put the truck body on your car and you'll have a truck.

Everything is customizable to you.

And yet, what are we doing?

Those same people that love custom-made everything and demand it and feel ripped off if it's not customizable?

We're demanding a giant one-size-fits-all

bureaucratic state?

How asleep are you, America?

How hypnotized are you?

How dead inside are you to what's really going on?

We're enslaving our children through debt.

We're enslaving our children through

a lack of education.

They are absolute

idiots.

Our history

hasn't been lost.

Our history has been taken from us.

And we know it.

And what do we do?

What do we do?

We save our money.

We go into debt.

And then we take all of that money

and pay 400% more than we did 10 years ago

to take our little lambs and lead them right into the hands of the butcher.

Through education.

Here, kids, we've worked 18 years to shape you, to mold you, to help you learn how to think.

Let me give you right over to the hands of a butcher who's going to undo all of those things.

Oh, and we're going to go into debt doing it.

What the hell is wrong with us?

There's two other related stories here.

Let me give you this one.

Following months of national media coverage over the handling of illegal aliens in custody, Montgomery County, Maryland

is starting to reverse their sanctuary policy.

The county executive Mark Ehrlich is going to allow immigration and customs enforcement ICE agents the ability to access certain areas of Montgomery County Jail in order to apprehend illegal aliens.

County spokesperson confirmed

to the local news outlet that correctional officers have been ordered to give ICE agents clearance to identified areas of the jail to ensure that transfers are conducted in a safe environment.

Why are they suddenly changing this?

Well, because

crime started to

go off the roof.

A string of rape charges.

Criminal aliens.

Oh, we just want to be compassionate.

We want to be compassionate.

We don't need ICE.

We won't give any of these people over to ICE

until rape numbers went through the roof

perpetrated by illegal aliens.

Finally, the people have had enough and said enough.

There's a new study in California that shows that just over half

of California's registered voters

are considering leaving the state.

Again,

half,

over

half

of the registered voters in California have said, enough is enough.

You know, at some point, you run out of places to run.

Where are you going to go?

Because this insanity

is everywhere.

Yes, there are worse places.

God help the poor people who believe in law and order in Portland, Oregon.

But this is a disease,

and it is spread throughout society.

And this disease kills all common sense.

We have a choice to make,

and I'm going to lay out that choice.

Can you imagine, Pat?

Your whole whole family is off going to a wedding and they're just gunned down?

I can't.

And in separate vehicles, miles apart, too.

I mean, they deliberately ambushed.

I have to tell you,

I was at

Operation OUR

this weekend, this Saturday night in Salt Lake City, which is Operation Underground Railroad.

And

it was started by Tim Ballard, and he got up and he told the story about Gardy.

You remember Gardy and his father?

Gardy is

a kid that was kidnapped in Haiti in the church parking lot.

His dad was the pastor of the church.

And in the church parking lot, his son, who I think was seven at the time,

was kidnapped and

sold into sexual slavery.

He has not been found yet.

It's been over ten years.

They're still looking for him.

And

this father is so remarkable.

And

when I heard him talk about this, I went to bed that night and I had dreams all night, over and over and over again.

I had one of those nightmares where you wake up and then you close your eyes and you have the same dream again.

It was that my son had died

and it affected me well into the next day.

I just

couldn't get my arms around losing one of my children.

I don't know how people survive that.

But we are

losing our children

through

violence.

We're losing our children through suicide.

We're losing our children to, quite honestly, the university systems.

Their bodies still may be here, but their spirits are crushed.

What are we doing?

We all live the same kind of life where we're all struggling at night worrying about our kids, or at least I am.

Maybe it's just me, but I don't think so.

I think there are millions of parents just like me that every night you come home, you talk to your kids, and you thank God that they've come home and they're not completely destroyed by whatever this society is pushing.

And now you can't get it out of the house because electronics, it's everywhere.

Used to be that your house was a castle,

your house was a safe zone.

Tell me what's safe.

We wonder why we're having these problems.

I will tell you what the actual problem is

and how to begin to solve it in your own life.

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So, what is it that we're going through?

What is it that we're happening?

I want to read something to you from 1888.

This was commissioned by Congress

and done by the librarian of Congress in 1888.

Two English colonies that first settled in America furnish a moral lesson that is in full interest and in some respects without parallel in the history of the world.

This map, and I'll tell you about the map here in a second, it's a map of the United States.

This map represents those colonies by two trees

whose striking contrast will be apparent to the most superficial observer, but not more so than historical facts make them appear.

The student of history here can see at a glance that it would require him years of hard study to glean from textbooks, and many will see the moral of the subject here for the first time.

It is said that history repeats itself.

We do not claim that it does, but there is a similarity between the first colony of the Old World and the first colonies of the New World.

The first colony of the Old World was established in the Garden of Eden.

This is commissioned by Congress in 1888.

The first colony of the Old World was established in the Garden of Eden, Eden, where good and evil existed, and evil caused the downfall of man.

So it was in the New World.

Good and evil came here to America also.

The good to Plymouth, the bad to Jamestown.

As the tree which bore the forbidden fruit caused the curse to be brought upon man in Eden, so did the tree of slavery in Jamestown.

There was a constant warfare in the old world between good and evil.

So there has always been in the new world.

The evil of Jamestown has always been and to this day at war with the good of Plymouth.

Now remember, this is after slavery.

This is twenty some years after slavery.

Much of the trouble in the New World was caused in this way.

In 1620, each colony planted a tree, the Tree of Liberty, then quite small, planted by the pilgrims upon the Bible in Plymouth, where it received God's blessings, which accounts for its wonderful growth and excellent quality of fruit.

The tree of slavery

was brought from the Old World, and the people of Jamestown planted that.

In time of a dispute in time, a dispute arose between the two colonies as to which tree should grow large that it would

occupy all the land.

Slavery, with its attendant evils, would overshadow the land with darkness, while liberty, with its manifold blessings, would send a flood of light over the whole country.

At one time, it appeared that the tree of slavery would gain the supremacy.

But God caused that that tree soon began to lean southward.

Its friends then tried to prop it up, but it still continued to lean and showed signs that it would fall.

This made the southern man jealous and decided to murder his northern brother, as Cain of old did to his brother Abel.

For this sin, God set a black mark upon Cain and sent Father Abraham with his big emancipation acts to cut the tree of slavery down.

Isn't it interesting that it was Father Abraham,

Abraham Lincoln that did this?

It's a remarkable fact that so far the influence of the two colonies has been felt in the affairs of our country and that the Jamestown colony has been bad and the Plymouth colony good, the grand and noble thoughts recorded in the wonderful advent of

our free schools, the many blessings we enjoy today, and all that tends to elevate mankind and heirlooms handed down from the Puritans and their children, while nearly every evil which exists in the political economy of our beloved country can be traced to the pernicious teachings of Jamestown settlers and their children.

Now listen to this paragraph.

Jamestown is no more, but the colony still lives in the form of the Democratic Party.

This was commissioned by Congress, 1888, written by the librarian of Congress, 1888.

Why?

Because the roots of the Democratic Party were from the southern slave owners.

It was all about slavery.

It was not about freedom of the states to do anything.

It was about slavery.

Plymouth is flourishing, a flourishing city.

Her children now form the Republican Party of this great country.

For verification of these facts, study the history of the United States.

Now,

I am not here to tell you that the Democrats and the Republicans, that the Republicans are good and saintly and the Democrats are evil.

The infection is on both sides now.

I do believe one is much worse than the other, but the

infection is on both sides.

That's not the point of this.

The point is the map.

And the map is shown with two trees, one kind of gnarled and

bent, and it's God's curse of slavery.

And it was planted.

The trunk of that tree is in Jamestown.

And it shows

how that tree

has grown.

And the limbs of the tree are really, really

important.

The limbs of the tree are avarice, lust, ignorance, superstition, sedition, secession, rebellion,

treason,

murder, war.

God's blessing of liberty, that tree that comes from Plymouth.

The first branch is free schools, and we don't mean nobody pays for them.

What we mean is that they are free.

The people do it.

They are free of government.

Now, how can you expect a government school to teach you that you should be wary of the government?

You ever thought of that?

How could a school that is paid for by the government, who wants to churn out good citizens that respect and love the government, how could it possibly be expected to be be teaching that the government is like fire?

Free schools, intelligence, obedience to the law, knowledge, free speech, equal rights, love of country, contentment, industry, philanthropy, benevolence, sobriety, morality, happiness, patience, justice, charity, virtue, faith, truth, hope, honor, joy, peace, light, and immortality.

We are facing exactly the same.

This is the this is this is the war in heaven.

A third of God's own children, a third of the angels who knew who he was,

chose wrong, chose incorrectly.

If it can happen there, how come it can't happen here?

The garden of good and evil.

We know what happened.

The fall.

This happens all the time, good and evil.

And in America, there is a second choice.

There is the choice that we consecrate.

Look that up.

Not just dedicate.

Consecrate everything that we do.

We make that sacred.

That we're not doing it just for us.

We're doing it for our children and our posterity.

We're doing it for the freedom of all mankind.

We're doing it because

that's what God asks us to do,

to have a noble and charitable and loving heart.

Or you can go the way of Jamestown.

The people who came, including Columbus, He came over for the right reasons, but the minute he started looking for gold, he lost his way.

There is a curse on this land as well as a blessing, but the curse is only enacted on those who choose it.

Because this is a sacred land, if you choose to pursue Jamestown,

your tree will become gnarled and bent and broken.

If you choose, and we have

that dominance, that money, that fame, that everything earthly is what this country is about,

we are going to perish and sooner than most people think.

But we're a covenant land.

And if we go back to Plymouth

and we go back to the beginning and we choose, you know, there was this argument in the 1850s, which are we?

Are we the sons and daughters of Plymouth or are we the sons and daughters of Jamestown?

Well, thank God,

they chose before the Civil War.

They are the people of Plymouth, not Jamestown.

We have to make that same choice again.

and it is that simple.

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Oh, yeah.

Oh, it's time for an Ilan Omar update.

So, the Alan Mara update, here she is at a Bernie Sanders rally, and I want you to listen to this.

Go ahead.

Because that is the only way we are going to defeat Donald Trump.

And place

and place his cruel ideology in the dispens of history where it belongs.

That Muslim Brotherhood, that's great stuff.

Together, we are going to send a powerful message with this president.

Your effort

to coddle white supremacy, to ban Muslims from entering the United States, to call people at neo-Nazi rallies very fine people

will fail.

Isn't that beautiful?

Isn't that beautiful?

So tired of that lie.

And just as a matter of fact, none of us are going back.

We're here to stay.

Well, that might not be the case with you in particular at some point.

You might not be like the average Muslim that is here.

It might be a special exception made for you.

But that's only if anybody cares to, I don't know, investigate.

There's your Ilanomar update.

Ilano Mar.

Oh,

that is fantastic.

Today is the day that we, many people are going to the polls.

Big day in Virginia.

Every seat

in the statehouse is open.

Is it Virginia or West Virginia?

It's Virginia.

Did I say West Virginia?

No, well, I think you said West Virginia yesterday.

Maybe I just misheard it.

Yeah, probably that.

Every seat

is,

does that happen anywhere else?

I don't think so.

I don't either.

I thought that was wrong.

When I first read that, I was like, no, I can't be on every seat.

Every seat?

That's crazy talk.

But apparently you can.

So

we'll see what they do with it.

We were looking at some of the ballot initiatives,

and you have to go back, you know, because most of them now are just about, you know, how much money are we going to spend?

How much tax dollars do you want to spend?

That's most of the ballot initiatives state by state.

But

I like some of these.

Should we prohibit toxic waste in our drinking water?

That's a tough one.

You know, you really got to battle in the voting booth as to whether or not you want toxic waste in water.

Right, right.

Well, it was approved.

This is in California.

They said we should forbid toxic waste discharge into drinking water.

No.

How does that even get on a ballot?

How does that even get on a ballot?

You know what that is?

That is toxic waste discharge.

I think that is so broad that it just opened up everything, all these doors.

That was 1986.

I like this one.

Along with

school vouchers, sales tax, and city charter revisions, voters in San Francisco had to decide whether to allow a veteran police officer to walk his beat with a ventriloquist dummy, Brendan O'Smarty,

he of the laughing Irish eyes, whom Officer Geary picked out of a ventriloquist catalog after he was selected to work in a community policing program that encouraged officers to use creative and ingenious methods to break down barriers between citizens and police.

That's a unique way.

Sure is.

I don't know if this helps bring us closer together.

You're like, oh, dear God, here comes the guy with the vitrilography.

But they approved it.

Yeah, they did approve it.

They actually approved it.

In San Francisco.

Should we give $1 million to a random voter?

Good way to get people to vote.

I think the founders would have absolutely loved that initiative.

Oh, they would have loved it.

We're voting not for freedom, but for cash, for the possibility to become a millionaire.

Believe it or not, that was New York City.

Jeez.

And it was defeated.

It was defeated.

Fairly recently, too.

That was 2006.

I didn't even hear.

Well, we lived there, and I didn't even hear about that one.

Should we take over the Grand Canyon?

This one was on the ballot in Arizona on October 23rd.

Voters in Arizona, when they go to the polls, they will be asked to decide land ownership tug of war.

Should the Grand Canyon belong to all Americans or just the residents of Arizona?

Controversial ballot measure backed by Republicans in the state, seeking sovereign control over millions of acres of federal land in the state, including the Grand Canyon.

It's kind of a federal land grab thing.

Yeah, that's.

Should it belong to the state or should it be

federal land?

It should belong to the state.

I think so, too.

It's defeated.

Yeah.

Should Denver set up a commission to track aliens?

Denver opted against the initiative to track aliens from outer space.

Proposition known as Initiative 300 would have involved setting up a commission to monitor aliens and a website to allow members of the public to report UFO sightings.

As a result, how many aliens have sneaked into Detroit, into Denver, into Denver since?

A lot.

A lot.

A lot.

Yeah.

A lot.

They should have set up a commission.

I don't know if I'm all that surprised that it was Colorado after the drug thing,

But

should we let Roxy the miniature pig stay?

Roxy the pot-bellied pig will be moving to a new home now

that voters

have said that she wore out her welcome.

Cynthia and Tim Gaston and their two children who own

Roxy the petite pig said they're going to they'll move rather than give Roxy up.

On Tuesday, residents of the city of 20,000, about 30 miles northwest of Dayton in western Ohio, rejected the ballot proposal that would have allowed residents to keep miniature pigs as pets.

Now, I don't know why that's anybody's business.

No, but Cynthia and Tim obviously had to move.

Wow.

Sad.

Really sad.

Berkeley, among the most generous cities in the country in funding homeless services, is considering a daytime ban on sitting on the sidewalk in all commercial areas.

The city currently prohibits lying on the sidewalk, but police and city officials say the law is ineffective because people just sit up when the officers walk by.

It was defeated.

Yeah.

Of course.

Should we just start our own state?

At NAND's convenience store in eastern Colorado, the front door tells visitors gun control is hitting your target.

The farmers, the crop sprayers, mechanics, and retirees who gather for morning coffee say they've had enough of the state and its Democratic leaders.

They bristle at gun control and marijuana shops, green energy policies, and steps to embrace gay marriage and illegal immigrants.

In November, the rural county

and 10 others are going to hold a vote on whether to secede from Colorado and work to form their own state.

Remember that movement?

I remember them doing that, and it was shut down, though.

I don't think you can do that, though, can you?

I don't think legally.

You can't.

I don't think you can actually

make a state from just the borders of another state.

Isn't that what it says?

It's something like that.

Yeah, that's close.

Yeah.

I don't know exactly how you can make a state anymore.

We've always talked about the fact that Texas can divide into five states if it wants to,

but you can't just secede from a state and start another state, and you can't secede from the Union legally.

That never made sense to me.

No.

So we can start our own state in here?

What a five?

We can split into five, yeah.

Really?

Yeah, we can't secede from the Union like many people think we can legally do, but we can't do that.

But we can split into five states.

Didn't Texas have the right to its own navy?

I'm not sure about that.

I think for a while

it had a right to its own navy.

I'd have to look into that.

Yeah.

I think, I don't know when that ended, but.

Should we build a new house for the pregnant elephant?

Cincinnati Zoo officials threatened to ship off its four Asian elephants, one of them pregnant, if voters rejected a $52 million

tax levy for a new elephant house.

Yeah, bye-bye, elephants.

The elephants were

elephants were put onto a boat and shipped someplace else.

I'm paying $52 million for an elephant house.

Sorry.

Sorry.

I just.

Not doing it.

Oh, man.

I was out trick-or-treating with the grandkids, and there were these houses

in the neighborhood where the taxes, the property taxes in Texas are the real problem.

They are

really high and these people had vote yes, proposition whatever

for the school.

And it took everything in me to say, why?

Do you need a bigger football stadium?

Is that what you need?

If you need a bigger football stadium, pay for it on your own.

Yeah.

Because it's crazy.

The schools down here in Texas are insane.

But they always tell you.

It's for the children.

Do you love the children?

No.

Don't you love your children?

No.

I love the twin children.

The 12-year-old boy children.

That's what we hear all the time.

Was that a proposition?

Another children.

I've been propositioning them for a while.

You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

The author of the book, The Polar Bear Catastrophe that Never Happened, Susan Crawford, a zoologist, is with us now.

She finds herself now out of the university system, and that's going to affect a lot of things.

Welcome, Dr.

Crawford.

How are you?

I'm fine, Glenn.

Thanks.

Now are you over in Europe?

Because I know you were on a speaking tour over in Europe.

Yes, I'm actually still in the middle of that, so I'm in Germany at the moment.

And

what are you talking about on your speaking tour?

I'm talking about essentially the topic of my book, which is, you know, just explaining how and why the polar bear catastrophe that was predicted back in 2007 never materialized.

So how are you being received around the world?

Oh just

with open arms.

The people who have been organizing this tour have been phenomenal and the audiences have been very receptive and I've gotten a lot of positive feedback and a lot of outrage when they've heard about this

my losing my adjunct faculty position.

Now, Susan, I want to get into how that affects you and your work, et cetera, in a second.

But first, let's just address that.

They say this had nothing to do with you and polar bears and climate change.

They just said, and I quote, that your lectures were unbalanced.

What do they mean by that?

Yes.

I don't know.

They didn't explain further.

And if you would like, I will give you the direct quote.

Go ahead.

And so it was: while I respect issues of academic freedom, your talks at schools have generated concern amongst parents regarding balance that have been shared with various levels of the university.

Wow.

And that was the sum total of the explanation I was given.

So

this was for

my

expulsion from the Speakers Bureau.

This was not for the adjunct faculty position.

This was for the Speakers Bureau incident that happened in 2017.

So let me ask you, the people that speak about the death of polar bears, that is factually inaccurate,

were they also fired for imbalance?

For not presenting your side?

Well, of course, there isn't anyone

at my university that's in that position.

So I'm really the only one

in the entire faculty that has any expertise in polar bears.

I just can't get over the balance thing because I have not seen anyone fighting for balance.

I think American people, I think Canadians are, they're all fighting for balance.

Look, don't teach our children what to think, teach them how to think.

And you approach this as a scientist, as a zoologist and you understand polar bears and what's really happening you're not you're not you know making a coke commercial you're doing actual science

yes indeed and and and seriously one of the the issues here is that

this speakers bureau organization was a volunteer uh position so various faculty members and even graduate students would volunteer to go out and speak to community groups.

But there was no discussion that I'm aware of where we were told that we had to include a balanced presentation or what that even might entail.

So do you think this is just you are a message to other people in academia?

Toe the line or you're next?

Well, I think so.

I think that that is,

well, I don't know.

I think that if that had been their intention,

they would have admitted to

what they were doing.

But

all of the actions here have been really

the sort of smack of a bureaucracy that's trying to cover up having done something wrong.

And, you know, they're very careful with their language, refusing to put things in writing,

and now denying to other people that they had done anything wrong.

They have not, in fact, been in touch with me at all.

I haven't heard from anyone from the university over this whole incident.

So, when you are even an adjunct professor, that allows you to do

different things that somebody who's not affiliated with a university can't do.

That's correct.

And so, I would be able to do something like apply for a research grant or work with

academic colleagues were

who had research funding and that sort of thing.

So even though you're a scientist,

even though you're a scientist, you're a zoologist, you have your doctorate,

you can't go in on somebody else's study and even help them because you don't have university status.

Yes, if I don't have an academic affiliation, I can't do that.

That's insane.

That sounds insane.

I mean,

that sounds like the worst thuggish kind of union there is.

Why is that?

Do you know why that

rule was made?

I don't know why.

It's just,

it's for

a requirement, I believe, for many, if not most, of

academic funding.

And

there might be certain kinds of participation where a non-academic would be allowed, but you wouldn't be able to be, for example, at the head, you know, like tightly involved in the core of the study.

This is why adjunct status is so important.

It gives you that credential that you need.

So what does this, what are you going to do now?

What can you do now?

Well, I mean,

there's no process of appeal.

You know,

it appears that adjuncts have no rights in that regard.

And so I really don't have any other option but to carry on as best I can.

I can do the work that I've been doing on polar bears because that hasn't required getting research funding.

But as for any of my evolution research,

I think I will just have to hope that perhaps another university might offer an adjunct position at their

school.

And what is your research on evolution?

I've been looking at the role of thyroid hormone in

speciation,

in speciation as a mechanism.

So you're looking at this, talk down to me.

I'm sure I'm a doctor.

Now, one of the things, one of the things,

let's take the transformation of a brown bear into a polar bear, for example.

It's one of the

things that is, we know from genetics,

is the

transformation that led to the rise of the polar bear.

But one of the things that we know very little about is what the actual biological mechanism is that turns one species into another.

And so I've been looking at what that biological mechanism might entail.

And so I was looking at the role of thyroid hormone because it's a

hormone that has some very powerful

roles in the body, in development, in growth, in brain function, and also in control of genes.

So what this would do would be to

propose kind of a parallel system or a system in conjunction that you would have genetic change as well as a change in

thyroid metabolism function that would then change gene function.

So, have you watched it would be a real groundbreaking, it's a kind of a groundbreaking idea in evolution.

Have you watched the

video with David Galertner and I can't remember the other two scientists

where they talk about how

evolution

couldn't be because

there is no mechanism.

You have to design an animal from the first cell, not from the last cell, not from you can't make changes, otherwise the entire structure falls apart.

Have you seen that from David Glerdner?

No, I haven't.

I haven't.

Look him up.

He's a Yale mathematician, and it's not his theory.

He just started this conversation.

He's actually a big Darwin fan

and has always believed in evolution

and has just come out and read some new studies and said

the whole thing kind of falls apart.

I'd be interested in hearing somebody like you that actually has expertise in this

to look at it and tell me what you think.

But

it's a fascinating conversation with

three scientists, and I think only one of them is gleefully taking down

the origin of the species.

Susan, thank you so much.

Really appreciate you,

all the things that you have done, and I appreciate your boldness and your bravery

to stand up and speak the truth, even if it is unpopular.

And as it turns out, at your own expense.

I wish you all the best of luck.

Thank you, Susan.

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