Note:
"Understanding" Australia:
China continues to build
coal fired power stations to
burn coal for cheap, reliable
energy, with some of the coal
coming in from Australia,,
while selling solar equipment
and wind turbines to Australia,
for their expensive, intermittent
electricity !
That doesn't make sense,
you might think ... well,
the following true story also
doesn't make sense:
Government funded
institutions almost always
have a pro-leftist bias.
Grant money
goes to institutes
that stifle free speech
and support leftist
"consensus science".
Australia's James
Cook University
(JCU) "research"
means the people
in charge of
JCU’s “science”
department make
sure their "research"
supports the climate
change "consensus".
JCU has a pattern of
firing people
who disagree
with the official
government positions
on climate change.
They fired Professor
Peter Ridd for daring to
say that some of the
reef 'experts' at JCU
“could not be trusted”.
The court case is about
his employment contract,
which promotes
freedom of speech,
and nothing to do with
proving or disproving
the quality of science
at the University.
JCU responded to losing
the case by changing
its employment contracts
TO MAKE SURE
academics do NOT have
the right to free speech.
That means
JCU employees
have to hide all
non-consensus
opinions.
Some staff members
have admitted that
they are afraid to use
their official JCU
e-mail addresses.
JCU research
can not be trusted.
There is
no greater sin
in academia
than interfering
with an institution’s
source of funding.
Administrators
must be paid !
BACKGROUND:
JCU wasted $600,000
in court defending
the firing, lost on
every single count,
and was ordered to pay
$1.2m to Peter Ridd.
JCU decided to waste
more money on an appeal
that's still in progress.
Peter Ridd, while at JCU,
exposed manipulated
photos of reef fish
by a JCU researcher,
Oona Lönnstedt, who had
already been caught
fabricating data
in Sweden.
Lönnstedt's work was
a big scandal in Sweden.
She deliberately fabricated
data and was fired.
The University of Uppsala
had to make an official
apology for not checking
her work before publication.
Her work was about young
fishes eating micro plastics,
which they did not do, except
in her imagination.
JCU “investigated”
and fired Ridd faster
than it investigated
Lönnstedt's work !
Other JCU researchers
claimed that “acidification”
would make reef fish
act strangely.
Professor Ridd warned
that a lot of JCU research
could not be replicated.
In January 2020,
an attempt to
repeat eight JCU
experiments failed
for all eight.