There is dumb in this world, and there is university researcher dumb, which takes dumb to a whole other level. It’s the kind of dumb that pretends to be backed by science dumb. The kind of dumb put together by researchers who have never lived in the real world dumb. The kind that ignores the laws of physics and thermodynamics dumb.
Most importantly, it is the kind of dumb that either ignores or has no real knowledge of the current events and geopolitical dynamics impacting the topic of your research dumb.
That, friends, is what we know as university researcher dumb.
That is the brand of absurd dumbness that the increasingly woke editors at the Wall Street Journal decided would be a great fit on their Energy New pages on Friday. It comes in the form of the piece excerpted here, headlined, “The Clean Energy Revolution is Unstoppable.”
Oh, my, the headline alone belies a level of dumb that almost boggles the mind. Just wait until you get into the bowels of the piece, though, because you really ain’t seen nuthin’ yet.
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