To the editor:

Regarding public opinion of Kansas universities:

Universities are supposed to teach the love of the truth. This subject, applied epistemology, appears neglected in the universities supported publicly in Kansas. For example, KU philosopher Don Marquis in this forum once observed that his KU students had no idea of how science really works. As a former university professor and scientist in Kansas, I concur. True science is marked by hypothetico-deductive methods, applied with strong inference, and evaluated with Bayesian reasoning and mathematics. I wager that there are not three scientists in the public universities in the state of Kansas who can even intelligently discuss these standards, much less apply them to their research and teaching.

Historian Thomas Kuhn noted that nearly all professional “scientists” were not interested in truth, only in maintaining established “paradigms.” These despicable “scholars” killed 100,000 sailors with scurvy by censoring James Lind’s research on limes, and uncounted thousands of mothers and their newborn babies with childbirth fever, sneering at Ignaz Semmelweis and his ideas about doctors and nurses washing their hands. Millions die today with heart disease because research on mineral ascorbates is suppressed. And God only knows how many of “the little ones who love Jesus” are stumbled into sin and lost to hell, through the deeply biased teaching of evolution.

Thus, we hope and pray that the day will come when Kansans either shut down the universities or make them do what they are supposed to do.

Stephen Fretwell,

Lawrence