Dr. Peter Ridd is an Australian physicist, author, and former professor at James Cook University, North Queensland, Australia. Dr. Ridd, who also worked at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, is also the foremost expert on the barrier reef and the research and study of living coral. In May of 2018, Ridd was dismissed from the university for research concluding that bleaching in the coral reef was not a condition of climate change.
James Cook University took exception to Ridd’s conclusions and fired him for “serious misconduct” citing that he allegedly breached the university’s employment contract by publicly communicating his research results which were deemed against university policy as well as other employees who maintained an opposing view. Ridd took the university to court basically citing the abolishment of academic freedom, abrogation of freedom of speech, and truth in research.
In that court case, Ridd prevailed and was awarded a $1.2 million verdict for lost wages. Naturally, the university appealed all the way to the Australian Federal High Court. In that court, the verdict was overturned.
The court resolved that Ridd breached the university’s employment code of conduct and thus the firing was permissible. While such a judgment effectively removes academic freedom, you can be assured that in the vast majority of upper academia, any proponent climate change research, observation, or prospectus would be fully tolerated if not encouraged – irrespective of validity or employment codes of conduct.
The university claimed it was never their intention to silence Ridd, but that the firing was merely based on the code of employment – yeah right? Academia, in their haste and waste, to access taxpayer funding and grants for studies, research, and other expenditures, many of which are nonsensical or impractical, are opposed to any resolutions or declarations that are against progressive government policies and the NGOs they hide behind. How innocent they endeavor to maintain their prejudicial moves and motives.
This case is conclusive evidence of academic pretense.
Now, in its latest study, survey, and research of the coral off of the Great Barrier Reef, the Australian Institute of Marine Science independently asserts that record coral cover shames climate alarmists. For years alarmists and activist government-funded scientists have been claiming that anthropogenic climate change has damaged the coral of the reef beyond repair. Dr. Peter Ridd not only lost his job but lost it over truth and honesty.
Released just this month (August 2022), I link the report “The Good News on Coral Reefs” by Dr. Ridd and sponsored by the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). Official data released on August 1, 2022, reveals that “Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is in excellent health, with coral cover reaching record levels for the second consecutive year”.
This again; is to the absolute egregious shame of upper academia and their vast majority of politically progressive professors and administrative officials - yet never an apology, a correction, or an admission of error.