{"id":35890,"date":"2019-04-16T10:44:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T14:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35890"},"modified":"2019-04-16T10:44:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T14:44:39","slug":"the-court-gets-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35890","title":{"rendered":"The Court Gets It Right"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Guardian<\/a> is reporting today that an Australian court ruled James Cook University had unlawfully sacked a professor who had criticised scientific research about the climate change impact on the Great Barrier Reef<\/a>. Peter Ridd was a professor at James Cook University in Australia before he was fired for his criticism of some of the research on climate change.<\/p>\n

The American Thinker<\/a> posted an article today noting the following:<\/p>\n

The greatest “tell” for non-scientists evaluating the likelihood that the anthropogenic global warming\u00a0theory<\/em>\u00a0is a fraud is that instead of critically examining the facts, warmists try to silence skeptics, with some of them even\u00a0demanding jail<\/a>\u00a0for the thought-crime of questioning their unproven\u00a0theory<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0So thorough has been the pressure to keep the fraud going and keep the\u00a0billions of dollars a year<\/a><\/em>\u00a0in research funds flowing to universities and other research institutions pushing the party line that skeptics are under threat of firing \u2014 and some have been fired.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Guardian explains:<\/p>\n

Judge Salvatore Vasta ruled on Tuesday the 17 findings made by the university, the two speech directions, the five confidentiality directions, the no satire direction, the censure, the final censure and the termination of Ridd\u2019s employment were all unlawful.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…Judge Vasta said the university has not understood the whole concept of intellectual freedom.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c[The] university has \u2018played the man and not the ball\u2019,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cIntellectual freedom is so important. It allows academics to express their opinions without fear of reprisals. It allows a Charles Darwin to break free of the constraints of creationism. It allows an Albert Einstein to break free of the constraints of Newtonian physics. It allows the human race to question conventional wisdom in the never-ending search for knowledge and truth.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Townsville-based university\u2019s provost professor, Chris Cocklin, noted the judgment does not refer to any case law.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe disagree with the judgment and we maintain we have not taken issue with Dr Ridd\u2019s nor any other employee\u2019s rights to academic freedom,\u201d Cocklin said in a statement.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cDr Ridd was not sacked because of his scientific views. Dr Ridd was never gagged or silenced about his scientific views, a matter which was admitted during the court hearing.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The case has been adjourned for a further hearing to award a penalty.<\/strong><\/p>\n

My biggest problem in science classes was jumping to conclusions without examining all the facts. I think the entire concept of man-made global warming rather than natural climate cycles is a result of that sort of thinking.<\/p>\n

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