There are none so dumb as ... they that will not learn!
I was a freshman student at this not so fine institution in 1969. We were being told by professors and professional alarmists that we were in the middle if a new ice age and hundreds of millions of people were going to perish. I am proud to say that my BS meter went into full oscillation mode and I believed that that the whole exercise was designed to impress we baby faced students and accrue more power to the proponents of this obvious baloney. It is now fair to say that I was right and the BSers were wrong. This is now happening again, but from the other way around.
It would be interesting to review the archives of the non esteemed Daily Collegian newspaper from that time to see what insights that group was laying on gullible people at that time. I wish I could check it myself.