MASSIVE Victory For Climate Change Realism And Academic Freedom!
Posted: April 16, 2019 | Author: Jamie Spry | Filed under: Australia, Climate Change, Climatism, Great Barrier Reef, Sceptics | Tags: Climate Change, Climate Change Hoax, Climatism, Global Warming, Great Barrier Reef, James Cook University, JCU, Peter Ridd, pseudoscience, Scepticism is Science, science, Science and Environment | 2 Comments
James Cook professor’s sacking ruled ‘unlawful’ | The Australian
“BLIND trust in authority
is the greatest enemy of the truth.”
– Albert Einstein
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A BIG WIN for freedom of speech and academic freedom as former JCU Great Barrier Reef expert, Peter Ridd, wins wrongful dismissal case against James Cook ‘University’.
ALSO, a massive win for climate scepticism and the fight against sloppy, pseudoscientific ‘science’ driven by Leftist dominated academia driving the $2,000,000,000,000 US per year (2 Trillion) man-made global warming climate change agenda.
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via The Australian :
James Cook professor’s sacking ruled ‘unlawful’
A Federal Court judge has ruled that James Cook University acted unlawfully when it sacked professor Peter Ridd after he publicly criticised the institution and one of its star scientists over claims about the impact global warming had on the Great Barrier Reef.
Professor Ridd, who worked at the university for 40 years, challenged the dismissal in the Federal Circuit Court, saying the university breached its own enterprise agreement which allowed all staff to express controversial or unpopular views.
The physics professor argued that the Townsville-based university, which is renowned for its marine science expertise, dismissed him for breaching the university’s code of conduct.
Handing down his decision today, judge Salvatore Vasta said that the 17 findings used by the university to justify the sacking were unlawful.
“The Court rules that the 17 findings made by the University, the two speech directions, the five confidentiality directions, the no satire direction, the censure and the final censure given by the University and the termination of employment of Professor Ridd by the University were all unlawful,” Judge Vasta said.
A penalty hearing will be set for a later date.
At a hearing last month, Professor Ridd’s barrister Stuart Wood argued his client was entitled to criticise his colleagues and the university’s perceived lack of quality assurance processes.
In 2016, Professor Ridd emailed a journalist to allege that images given to the media by the Australian Institute of Marine Science and Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority were misleading because they showed poorly affected corals, which were selected over nearby healthy coral and used to show “broad scale decline” of reef health.
Professor Ridd claimed the use of the images was “a dramatic example of how scientific organisations are happy to spin a story for their own purposes”.
He also said his colleague Professor Terry Hughes, the head of JCU’s Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, would “wriggle and squirm” when asked to explain the discrepancies in the images.
Professor Ridd was censured again when he repeated the claims on Sky News.
After a third alleged violation of the code of conduct, Professor Ridd was sacked in April 2018.
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James Cook University @jcu censures a climate skeptic – help him fight back
Posted: February 2, 2018 | Author: Jamie Spry | Filed under: Australia, Ecofascism, Government Grants/Funding, Great Barrier Reef, Green Agenda, Pseudo-Science, Sceptics, Socialism | Tags: auspol, climate, DONATE, Freedom Of Speech, Gofundme, Great Barrier Reef, James Cook University, JCU, Peter Ridd, science, Totalitarianism | 2 CommentsMASSIVE response from defenders of free speech already through the ‘Gofundme’ page.
PLEASE try to donate even as little as $5 (a takeaway coffee).
FUNDING Professor Peter Ridd’s legal fund helps protect freedom of speech and sends a very important message to supposedly “free-thinking” institutions that suppression of thought, ideas and opinion MUST NOT and cannot be stifled because these ideas disagree with the preferred wisdom of the day or a chosen ideology. This is totalitarianism that directly undermines freedom and democracy.
DONATE today to help Prof Ridd fight @JCU and stick it to the tyrannical climate industrial complex.
https://www.gofundme.com/peter-ridd-legal-action-fund
Watts Up With That?
UPDATE: I made this a “top post” that will remain at the top of WUWT until we reach the goal. New content will appear below.
Last week we covered this ugly saga of how a colleague of the late Dr. Bob Carter has been singled out for criticism and ruin by his university: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/01/29/the-power-of-grant-money-on-display-at-james-cook-university/
Now we have this announcement from Dr. Jennifer Marohasy, reposted below.
I ask three things of our readers.
- Retweet and repost this story wherever you can, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, etc.
- To show support, buy a copy of the book in which he says the Great Barrier Reef alarmism is just that.
- If possible, donate to his campaign to fight back against the university- link below.
Peter Ridd Asks for your Help – Now
Peter Ridd and Jennifer Marohasy speaking about the need for quality assurance in science last November in Sydney.
PROFESSOR Peter Ridd is a…
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