Ridd’s case is a dramatic illustration of the free speech crisis in Australian universities, not least around matters as politically and emotionally charged as climate change. It will determine, in effect, whether universities have the ability to censor opinions that threaten their sources of funding. It is one of the most important cases for intellectual freedom in the history of Australian jurisprudence.
The Ridd case has resonated around Australia — and has attracted significant attention worldwide — for good reason. It confirms what many people have suspected for a long time: Australia’s universities are no longer institutions encouraging the rigorous exercise of intellectual freedom and the scientific method in pursuit of truth. Instead, they are now corporatist bureaucracies that rigidly enforce an unquestioning orthodoxy, and are capable of hounding out anyone who strays outside their rigid groupthink.
Link doesn’t work for me. I get a subscription page instead.
Ditto for me.
Here’s a bit of a background: https://ipa.org.au/peterridd
You can see a great article about this on WUWT.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/05/30/peter-ridd-versus-prestige-and-clown-fish-beyond-that-mudflat/
Australia is swamped with little Mao’s infiltrating the country through “student visa’s”/ never leaves quietly watching, reporting, and spreading communist global ambitions.
“There were more than two million Chinese students in Australia in 2019…..”,
https://www.statista.com/statistics/430276/number-of-chinese-students-in-australia-by-education-sector/
Hmm … “a professor who had criticised scientific research about the climate change impact on the Great Barrier Reef”.
From here: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/16/james-cook-university-professor-peter-ridds-sacking-ruled-unlawful
Sounds like the green environ-mentalist religionists can’t handle the truth. To ban, sack, get rid of somebody they don’t agree with is the only way to proceed since they don’t have, can’t come up, are devoid of a valid argument.
hb nails it.
Cook University is just leading the way.
The long march looked so good,so smart and so intellectual when it started.
Occupy key institutions,kill them and wear their skin as cover for your “great Plan”.
Except once they become occupied,they stop being “Key Institutions”.
Public has very well developed BS detectors,so now these centres of learning are well ignored credential mills.
Employer ignore their product,or plan “reeducation/safety training for those they do hire.
The only places the well indoctrinated are welcome,is in government(Another formerly key institution) and the HR divisions of corporations so big they have crony status in government .
The Peter Ridd saga has exposed James Cook University as beyond useless.
“The institutes of higher learning learn their own hard lesson.”
The *real* question is whether they *will* learn anything in the short term. ‘If you can’t be a good example you will have to be a horrible warning.’
So tell me: is Oberlin a good example or a horrible warning? I think it is a good example of what not to do, and a horrible warning to the rest of ‘higher learning’. And I also think that the warning will be not only be ignored it will be anathematized such that only the ‘heretics’ will acknowledge its existence. Ayn Rand was right: You can avoid reality but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality
Must remember to buy more popcorn.
Paywalled. Nice try.
The virus will fix everything.