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The troubling case of Professor Ridd : Comments

By Adrienne Stone and Joshua Forrest, published 24/6/2021

Does the principle of academic freedom protect Australian academics who engage in pointed public criticism of their academic colleagues, and university governance?

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Telling porkies again?

"As eminent anthropologist Peter Sutton and archaeologist Keryn Walshe meticulously demonstrate in Farmers or Hunter-Gatherers?, released this week by Melbourne University Press, Dark Emu is “poorly researched, distorts and exaggerates many old sources, ignores large bodies of information that do not support the author’s opinions (and) contains a large number of factual errors”

Essentially Pascoe was making sh1t up.
Posted by shadowminister, Monday, 28 June 2021 10:43:07 AM
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Shadow Minister,

Ridd's findings were not on trial. His code of
conduct was. And I have already given you two
links that adequately deal with critiques of his
findings by the Australian Coral Reef Society.
Posted by Foxy, Monday, 28 June 2021 10:49:45 AM
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Pauliar,

I agree that Ardern is comparable with the Chadian dictator. But with a socialist leader one can't expect any better.

But with idiots like the pedogreens, Aus has roughly 25% of the population who shun the vaccine, especially since the competent Morrison government has largely quelled the pandemic. The only benefit of the moron Daniels is that Victorians are sh1t scared and flocking to get the vaccine.
Posted by shadowminister, Monday, 28 June 2021 2:57:25 PM
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Foxy and Bronnie are taking the legalistic approach in defending the sacking of Professor Ridd .

I love good movies, girls. And the very best movies are based upon moral issues and moral quandaries, that are central to the story in the movie. Movies like "Dirty Harry" in which the audience is confronted with the question of whether in certain situations, the torture of a suspect by a police officer is entirely justified by common sense.

This is especially true in movies based upon real life events. "In Broad Daylight" is a wonderful movie recounting the problem in Skidmore, Missouri, where a vicious criminal seemed so above the law, that he could terrorise the population of an entire town, while the forces of law and order were so hidebound by legal procedure, that they could do nothing. The movie asks the audience whether in such a situation, vigilante justice is entirely justified.

"Deliberate Intent" is another great movie describing a real life situation where a murderer used a step by step instruction manual called "Hitman" published by Paladin Press, on how to commit a murder and get away with it. James Perry, a hired murderer, used every step in this guide to murder a mother, her disabled child, and a nurse, so that her husband would inherit the childs' compensation payout. The movie investigates whether the US First Amendment protects publishers printing instruction manuals on committing very serious crime.

But the best one to illustrate the Professor Ridd controversy, is Russel Crowe in the movie "The Insider." This movie is based upon the fact that a tobacco company who claimed in court that their product was not dangerous, used a confidentiality agreement on one of their former employees, to shut him up from testifying against them in court. The employee was a scientist who the tobacco company had hired to make their dangerous product safer by removing carcinogens and other poisons from their product. Given Foxy and Bronnie's attitude, one must assume that they support the tobacco companies in their quest to shut up anybody who knows they are lying.
Posted by LEGO, Thursday, 1 July 2021 7:22:51 AM
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