This requirement, approved by the Academic Senate, is a clear example of the university’s shift from fostering critical thinking to promoting a singular ideological agenda.
Category: Academic Freedom
Extraordinary Resignation by a Geology Professor: ‘I feel the profession…is no longer worthy of my efforts’
On Twitter, there is a openly raw admission of why academia has decended into little more than intellectual tribalism, with ‘climate change’ being at the center of the issue. Dr.…
Peter Ridd’s James Cook University “Dramatic Drop in Student Enrolment”
Perhaps a reputation for trampling academic freedom has consequences.
Peter Ridd Case: Academic Freedom Just Died in Australia
Australia’s High Court has ruled that University administrators have the right to fire academics for breach of employment code of conduct, which has precedence over academic freedom.
The Idea of Academic Freedom, Explained by Stone and Forrest*
Reposted from Jennifer Marohasy’s Blog June 25, 2021 By admin Does the principle of academic freedom protect Australian academics who engage in pointed public criticism of their academic colleagues, and university governance?…
Why The Claimed “97% Consensus” Is Meaningless
I got to thinking about how science progresses. Science is a funny beast. It’s not a “thing”, it’s a process. The process works like this: One or more people make…
A New Year’s Look At WUWT
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Today, as the result of a series of wrong turns and bad choices, I ended up at the Wikipedia entry for Watts Up With That.…
Academic Freedom? The Peter Ridd Case is Part of a Much Larger Problem with Australian Universities
What academic freedom is left in Australia, if Professor Patrick Parkinson, Dean of Law at the University of Queensland had a paper rejected, because students and peer reviewers were concerned,…
Time to Stand UP! Against Academic Suppression
CLINTEL has issued the Magna Carta Universitatum 2020. This short document is basically an aspirational code of conduct for freedom of inquiry and speech at universities.
Academic Freedom VS JCU: Reef Scientist Peter Ridd Vows to Fight On
Courageous Reef Scientist Peter Ridd needs your help. He plans to continue the battle against James Cook University, to protect the right of Australian professors to be uncollegial, their right…
Climate change now detectable from any single day of weather at global scale
Sebastian Sippel, Nicolai Meinshausen, Erich M. Fischer, Enikő Székely & Reto Knutti Nature Climate Change volume 10, pages35–41(2020)Cite this article Abstract For generations, climate scientists have educated the public that…
Crockford: European outrage over my loss of adjunct status and video of my Dutch school lecture
From Polar Bear Science Posted on December 17, 2019 | Comments Off on European outrage over my loss of adjunct status and video of my Dutch school lecture I’ve been…
