32 Replies to “Keeping Up With The Fruit Fly Guy”

  2. Just some narrow minded pinhead with his walnut sized brain who like Al Gore is trying to sell us snake oil called Climate Change

  3. He is a tenth level maggot, who knows for a fact that all man made claims of climate global disturbance warming change are bogus but it pays good and he has enablers and has made a fortune telling the tale so he keeps perpetuating it.

  4. He’s a hard-core commie who passes himself off as an expert on things he knows nothing about simply because he has a Ph. D. and who doesn’t hesitate to let everyone know he thinks he’s better and smarter than them because he has a doctorate.
    To those of us who are equally as educated and intelligent as he is, and who actually have expertise in the subjects he blathers on about, he’s a royal pain in the proverbial, an over-educated, clueless windbag.
    He’s a good example of why academic tenure should be abolished.
    Who indeed.

  5. He’s an arrogant, temperamental, elitist, asshole who owes his fame and fortune to unaccountable government jobs (UBC and CBC) who gave up science when he left the world of fruit flies and genetics for the world of watermelon theocracy specializing in mass indoctrination. His major achievement is misinformation on an industrial scale.

  6. Fruit fly guy has gone batty,he looks mad, possessed, the maggots are already feasting on his brain.
    In the TV ad paid for by the Wynne government of Ontario he looks frightening which is why the kids in the ad look scared, his appearance and what he tells them is a double whammy.

  7. I remember when he had his TV show on CBC in the early 1970s (“Suzuki on Science”, I believe it was called). He was dressed like a hippie and spent much of his on-air time bashing the U. S., particularly with respect to what was happening in Viet Nam.
    Later he was the host for “Quirks and Quarks” when it first went on the air. I didn’t listen to the show for the first 2 years because of his attitude and arrogance. Even after I did, I often didn’t like how he conducted himself. Some of the topics covered by the show were controversial and, in one or two cases, bordered on being in extremely bad taste.
    I don’t remember anything like that happening after Jay Ingram took over as host.

  8. as Dirty Harry would say, “a legend in his own mind”
    B, I’v dealt, worked with, or for about 20 PHD’s, and Suzuki would be the outlier. Most of those I worked with were easy to get along with, genuinely smart, and criticism didn’t bother them. A few were arrogant pricks, and one of those dreaded the day he pissed me off:-))

  9. You guys have to cut Suzuki some slack. I believe his parents lost their property during WW2 (around Leamington, ON–now the home of many millionaire farmers), when the Japanese in Canada were rounded up and put in internment camps. He’s just sticking it back to Canada any way he can now. Not that I condone what he’s doing, but he’s looking for pay back and it’s usually a bitch.

  10. People with closed minds who think only their opinions are right like Gore and Suzuki will not accept criticism on any of their ideas. Smart people do and delve further into whatever is being critiqued. It’s time we demand Suzuki be taken off our payroll at the CBC.
    If fools with agendas like Wynne of Ontario continue to use him to scare kids and buck up her money making agenda on the climate change farce we need to yell bloody murder or we are doomed to another generation of this crap and more money into a black hole.

  11. Suzuki is living proof that today’s universities with their anti-freedom ideas could all be shuttered tomorrow thereby producing an immediate improvement in the intellectual climate.

  12. Oh, puhleez. I am old enough and was in the field and knew of Suzuki when he was the fruit fly geneticist (he was a contemporary). Any victimization on behalf of his parents is an acquired one. He’s simply a product of the Age of Aquarius who never grew up. He discovered (or rather his ego did) that there was gold in them there hills when he found out the CBC, amongst others (the Age of Greenpeace) were willing to shell out for angry young boomers. He’s a surfer – been riding the wave ever since.

  13. His anger comes from the hole he’s dug himself into. The oceans have absorbed the heat??? Oh really! On what level of thermodynamics is that scientifically explained? Even the choir should be having a hard time with that one.

  14. That would be a rather lame excuse for his behaviour.
    Many of us came to this country as members of despised ethnic minorities and put up with a lot of prejudice and abuse when we got here. Rather than seeking revenge, we used those opinions as an opportunity to show that we were as good and, in some cases, better than our detractors.
    I look back on my experience as a chance to build character and overcome adversity. Our family took advantage of what this country had to offer and prospered.

  15. As I’ve said earlier, I don’t condone what he’s doing–but you cannot discount (or know) the shame/anger passed to him by his parents. It’s an Asian cultural trait that few Occidentals know about or understand. The closes understanding of it is “you shamed my family so I will exact revenge on you”. Where “you” is a person or the entire nation that brought them to shame. That’s why they killed all the male heirs of a vanquished foe in the old days.

  16. I think I have too much time on my hands because I found myself pondering this the other day…..
    IF Suzuki were to announce tomorrow he now had grave concerns over the validity of GW science, would his sycophantic media actually investigate his claims or would they rabidly turn on him like they treat the rest of us skeptics? I suspect they would claim he had a breakdown then hide him away from the public as protecting the narrative is always job #1.
    Anyways, I think MMGW is NOT scientifically valid and Dr. Suzuki is a hateful and arrogant crybully. Thought I better make those points while it’s still legal to do so.

  17. Then, shouldn’t his beef be with Imperial Japan ? Not the Western Republics that SAVED the world for little David ?
    My very first job after college was working for a Japanese-American whose “revenge” after being exiled to a Tule Lake internment camp and watching his father lose his prosperous Salinas, CA farm … was to earn a degree from UCBerkeley, start his own business, and raise 4 highly (post graduate) educated children and re-take the American Dream. He would be disgusted by David Suzuki.

  19. I’ve dealt with my share of university professors while I was a student. Most seemed to be decent chaps and they would speak largely of things they knew about. If there was something where their knowledge was hazy, they would either say that they didn’t know or make an educated guess with the understanding that their answer was speculative.
    Fortunately, at least in my experience, they were the majority.
    There were a few who were arrogant, pompous asses who had enormously high opinions of themselves, believing they could do no wrong. They thought that even a sneeze should be regarded as a major pronouncement.
    Some thought that having tenure was a license to do whatever they liked and were accountable to nobody as, by having that status, they had a job for life. (My own Ph. D. supervisor was like that.)
    Unfortunately, Dr. Fruit Fly appears to fall into this category.

  21. Suzuki is a very wealthy man. It would be interesting to find out where all that money came from.

  24. To people of a certain age, Suzuki was Mr. Miyagi (of Karate Kid fame). Wise, calm, harmless appearing yet a fearless defender of the young and weak. Such are stereo types. In short, he was made in Hollywood.
    And, while it is true that Japanese culture does have values relating to shame/humiliation, Suzuki is a product of Western Culture, Canada in particular. So I’m not buying the “it’s a cultural thing” in his case.

  25. Suzuki and Gore are no more “pinheads” than Al Capone or Pablo Escobar.
    They know exactly what they are doing,and THAT is; getting very rich off of their game.
    I didn’t find this article very “shocking” or sensational, The Rebel seems to be reaching a bit lately for alarming headlines.

  29. No,it’s about the U of O’s treatment of Suzuki,and I was responding to SP’s comment that Suzuki is a pinhead.
    Suzuki was born in Vancouver in 1936,and interned in B.C., probably about 1942, so his suffering in the camp in Slocan is questionable, probably more like an adventure to a little kid.
    After the War,his family moved to Ontario,where his Father must have been quite successful,as he could afford to send our Dave to some pretty good schools.
    That figures, an eastern upbringing has ruined many a good Western boy.
    Along with his degrees, DS has 28 honorary degrees. His genius is recognized world wide,maybe it’s his genius for making money out of nothing.

  30. Yes, waiving a fee in lieu of a chef seems just right, not at all excessive.
    One should be reminded of how those dreadful kangaroo-riders embarrassed him on Australian television.

  31. Just another con artist just like Al Gore making his money through lies,fabrication and junk science him and gore need to be marooned on some island together

  32. Three of our kids are U of O grads. None of them brag about it, and the oldest is downright ashamed.

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