Dr Peter Ridd on Academic Freedom & the Great Barrier Reef
Channel: Dave Pellowe
Date: 21/05/2018

Dr Peter Ridd is a scientist who had the audacity to publicly call for better quality assurance of the science being relied upon to determine public policy and billion dollar public expenditure. He raised the alarm last year that the science regarding the Great Barrier Reef has not been checked.

He explained that Australian coral reefs that have supposedly lost all their coral, are in fact covered in healthy coral. Reefs that are supposedly smothered in sediments are not. Reefs that have been damaged by cyclones and bleaching have rapidly recovered because these are natural phenomena.

James Cook University where he’d studied and taught for nearly 40 years objected to his public discussion of the inadequacy of research surrounding the Great Barrier Reef, and they began disciplinary proceedings for professional misconduct. Wanting to provide context and explanation around their punitive actions and to mount a strong legal defense, he also discussed that publicly and opened a GoFundMe, which James Cook University also rebuked him for and forbade any further public comment about.

You and I should be concerned about academic freedom being replaced by academic authoritarianism, because the inevitable result of universities like James Cook firing professors like Dr Peter Ridd will be the lack of accountability for bad science, science which governments will then use to manipulate us into supporting bad government.

Joining me in this episode of Pellowe Talk is former James Cook University professor, Dr Peter Ridd, to discuss the difference between science we can trust and science we should question further, what’s really going on in the Great Barrier Reef, and his personal experience as a real scientist being muzzled for questioning tyrannical science, as described by C.S. Lewis.

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• DONATE to defend academic freedom in Australia – https://au.gofundme.com/peter-ridd-legal-action-fund
• ATTEND the free speech forum in Townsville 7pm this Thursday, 24 May 2018 – https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/nq-free-speech-forum-finding-the-right-balance-of-political-correctness-tickets-45580342030
• CS Lewis’ article, Willing Slaves of the Welfare State – http://liberty-tree.ca/research/willing_slaves_of_the_welfare_state
• The editor-in-chief of the Lancet (one of the most well respected peer-reviewed medical journals in the world), that a lot of published research is in fact unreliable at best, if not completely false. – http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/05/16/editor-in-chief-of-worlds-best-known-medical-journal-half-of-all-the-literature-is-false/
• Zooxanthellae – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7cWzYqnnp8
• The facts of Peter Ridd’s firing – https://platogbr.wordpress.com/fired-details/
• CS Lewis on Scientism – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPeyJvXU68k

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