Richard Lindzen
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Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, universities treated that as something you could not discuss.
The notion that you wanted to have a defense against nuclear.
But the point was –
In academia, you could not discuss defensive issues.
I mean, at MIT, you had all sorts of people saying, you know, you shouldn't try.
It's silly.
It's impossible, and so on.
What was the point of that?
I mean, you have a problem.
You try and solve it.
If you probe, I think, into these issues, you realize that climate is an extreme case, but politics interfacing science is not new.
You know, I've often mentioned, I mean, my family emigrated here from Germany in 1938.
But when Hitler came to power in 1933, every university in Germany got rid of everyone who had Jewish blood.
before Hitler even asked.
So universities are not bastions of independent thinking.
What could be done to make them more so?
You know, the Canadians did something that I thought had potential.