{"id":50499,"date":"2019-12-21T23:18:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T07:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=50499"},"modified":"2019-12-21T23:18:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T07:18:05","slug":"professor-fired-for-disputing-global-warming-wins-800000-in-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/professor-fired-for-disputing-global-warming-wins-800000-in-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor fired for disputing global warming wins $800,000 in lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50500\" src=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Great-Barrier-Reef.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Great-Barrier-Reef.jpg 680w, https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Great-Barrier-Reef-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The whole \u201cglobal warming\u201d nonsense (hint: cooling is more credible) really is remarkable. Time and again when I bring this up with my low-information friends, I\u2019m told (among other talking points to be sure) how scientists by and large agree the world is burning up into a cinder unless we do something about it right now. The fact that it\u2019s been 20 straight years of being told the ice caps will be gone in 10 years unless we do something doesn\u2019t seem to shake their beliefs in the slightest.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the reason why scientists \u201cagree\u201d on global warming to any extent is because they are mostly employed by the government, at least indirectly in our higher education system. On many campuses, if you dispute the narrative, you\u2019ll quickly find yourself off campus in short order, and the people kicking you off don\u2019t see any problem in doing so even as they shout how they support freedom of expression.<\/p>\n<p>These incidents never make the mainstream news, but allow me to highlight one:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/climate-skeptic-professor-awarded-800000-compensation-after-university-fires-him-unlawfully_3071558.html\">Physics Professor Awarded $800,000 Compensation After University Fires Him Unlawfully for Views on Great Barrier Reef<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Global warming is blamed for pretty much everything bad that happens, of course, the better to scare people into supporting it. The Great Barrier Reef, a massive coral ecosystem near Australia, certainly has its problems (like all coral systems, and I rather suspect polluting the ocean is the main factor, but I digress), but this one professor dared to dispute that global warming was the issue.<\/p>\n<p>(Incidentally, my favorite \u201cit\u2019s global warming\u2019s fault!\u201d accusation concerned the die-off of horseshoe crabs, whose populations have dropped off sharply recently. Although this 400 million year old species has endured much hotter and much colder climates than today, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/10\/101004101330.htm\">global warming is still blamed for hurting them<\/a>. It\u2019s nuts.)<\/p>\n<p>So, this professor disputes the latest blame being laid on the latest nonsense. Was he professional about it?<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThere is perhaps no ecosystem on Earth better able to cope with rising temperatures than the Great Barrier Reef,\u201d Ridd wrote in the publication. \u201cIrrespective of one\u2019s views about the role of carbon dioxide (CO2) in warming the climate, it is remarkable that the Great Barrier Reef has become the ecosystem, more than almost all others, that is used to illustrate and claim environmental disaster from the modest warming we have seen over the course of the last century.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Do note that he\u2019s willing to concede there\u2019s been some warming. He also criticizes how the research is being done:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI have highlighted just a few examples of questionable science\u2014the list is long,\u201d Ridd continues, adding that in his view, current scientific practices and institutions are unreliable and in need of reform.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There is a huge, and I mean gargantuan problem in \u201cscience\u201d today, and I\u2019m not just talking about pseudo-subjects like gender studies, or qualitative subjects like psychology. Even \u201chard\u201d sciences like physics and chemistry have a reproducibility problem: the study can be peer reviewed and published, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/science-under-scrutiny-the-problem-of-reproducibility\/\">but can\u2019t be reproduced when someone else tries it<\/a>. Well over half of peer reviewed studies do not get the same results when someone else tries them.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, at this point, when you hear the results of a scientific study, you may as well flip a coin to determine if you should believe it. Mathematically, you are better off flipping a coin, in fact.<\/p>\n<p>So, the professor isn\u2019t exactly saying much here when he says what we\u2019re doing in science is \u201cunreliable\u201d\u2014flipping a coin is as unreliable as it gets, and produces more reliable results today than \u201cscience.\u201d That\u2019s demented.<\/p>\n<p>His university responded as most universities do when a professor disputes the narrative: they fired him. Yes, he had those job \u201cprotections\u201d you supposedly have as faculty, but they\u2019re worth very little when you try to work through the kangaroo campus court system.<\/p>\n<p>The professor wisely takes his complaint to court instead of the kangaroo campus system (I remind the gentle reader I was part of this system: it\u2019s a joke). How\u2019d that work out?<\/p>\n<p>In a judgment (<a href=\"https:\/\/platogbr.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/09\/ridd-v-james-cook-university-no.2-2019-fcca-2489.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) issued on Sept. 6, the Federal Circuit Court of Australia ruled to award Ridd \u201cthe sum of 125,000 AUD [$82,000] by way of pecuniary penalty\u201d plus \u201c1,094,214.47 AUD [$750,397.39] as compensation for loss\u201d that the former James Cook University employee suffered at the hands of the educational institution.<\/p>\n<p>While I\u2019m happy for the professor, the gentle reader should take little comfort that other universities will start behaving\u2014I\u2019ve seen time and again that despite these kinds of judgments, university \u201cleaders\u201d won\u2019t change their ways. They don\u2019t pay the price, you see, the university does, and that usually just means the cost is passed on to the taxpayers to pay for their continued supply of misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>A quick overview of just how far off the rails the university was in firing the professor:<\/p>\n<p><em>In its decision, the Federal Circuit Court listed a total of 18 \u201ccontraventions\u201d of legal acts that the university had in April been found guilty of, including imposing a gag order on Ridd \u201cto keep the disciplinary process confidential;\u201d trying to prevent him from making jokes about his ordeal by directing him to refrain from \u201cmake[ing] any comment or engag[ing] in any conduct that directly or indirectly trivialises, satires or parodies the University taking disciplinary action against [him];\u201d and, finally, firing him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To further reinforce the point about how the leaders won\u2019t learn anything from this:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe fact that JCU has not removed either of their press statements (despite my judgement) is almost tantamount to an attempt to ensure that Professor Ridd does not obtain employment in this field,\u201d Judge Vasta noted.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The judge further suggested the university\u2019s conduct bordered on \u201cparanoia and hysteria fuelled by systemic vindictiveness\u201d and Ridd must have felt he was being persecuted.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The professor\u2019s career in academia is ruined, he\u2019ll be basically unemployable, so the massive judgement is quite fair. Meanwhile, the \u201cleaders\u201d of the university who have destroyed this man for daring to question the narrative? They\u2019ll continue to reap massive pay and benefits, and I promise the gentle reader not a one of them will be fired for their clear and documented transgression, and all will continue to rise up through the ranks in the higher education system.<\/p>\n<p>Honest, there\u2019s a real reason why our scientists agree to whatever the government wants them to say.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.professorconfess.blogspot.com\">www.professorconfess.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The whole \u201cglobal warming\u201d nonsense (hint: cooling is more credible) really is remarkable. Time and again when I bring this up with my low-information friends, I\u2019m told (among other talking points to be sure) how scientists by and large agree the world is burning up into a cinder unless we do something about it right [&hellip;]\n&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/professor-fired-for-disputing-global-warming-wins-800000-in-lawsuit\/\" class=\"more\">learn more&rarr;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":50500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[8120],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-50499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-higher-education","tag-climate-change-3"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Professor fired for disputing global warming wins $800,000 in lawsuit - World leading higher education information and services<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/professor-fired-for-disputing-global-warming-wins-800000-in-lawsuit\/\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Professor fired for disputing global warming wins $800,000 in lawsuit - World leading higher education information and services\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The whole \u201cglobal warming\u201d nonsense (hint: cooling is more credible) really is remarkable. 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