Dear JF Aus,

If the judge determined it germane to the case then it of course he should be allowed. If it was instead deemed irrelevant to the case then of course it shouldn't.

Look Ridd was first cautioned over two years ago about following the rules of his employment. He kept wilfully infringing those rules including publishing "Private and Confidential" information of a Go Fundme page of all things.

There are proper channels for raising issues of academic misconduct or inadequate data etc. Ridd is a fringe character but there is no indication that he was prevented from using those channels. There is on the other hand very good evidence he decided to operate outside those rules and now he has taken umbrage at the cost.

So if the decision doesn't go your way then it is the fault of a weak judge?
Steele Redux,
it's not a matter of it going his way, it's a matter of right vs wrong & a weak Judge would make the wrong decision so as not to rock the boat.

If a Judge is under-informed due to news media gagging of evidence and consequently cannot determine what is relevant or not, crime or dangerous negligence will likely continue unchecked.

I submit dysfunction of GBRMPA associated science is relevant and so is opinion of a physicist who may happen to be in opposition to biologists. Different fields of science often compete and struggle for research resources due to inadequate funding for all fields, a motive for opposition.

Eccentric humans are known for wilful behaviour. Many scientists are eccentric, also very intelligent. Yes as you say, Ridd is a character.
What Dr Peter Ridd is or is not personally seems irrelevant to his court case, especially if there is substance to his insight to whether GBRMPA associated science is quality science.

Yes there are proper channels for raising issues of academic misconduct but what are consequences when fundamentally important issues are shunned because of lack of so called scientific evidence, data? E.g. There is no scientific evidence world fish populations are severely and generally depleted, as no scientists counted or measured original populations and counting the remaining re data is impossible. Now there are not enough oily fish left in the whole world to viably feed industrial animal production including aquaculture.

Fact remains the ABC news media has not informed the public and members of the Judiciary, that Australian east coast longshore current flow is transporting southern municipal sewage nutrient over-load pollution through seagrass nurseries and into GBR waters, feeding algae damaging ocean food web supply and coral, and that the total load from all point sources is not measured or assessed in GBRMPA associated science.

Evidence of substance indicates GBR science measuring sediment, not the dissolved nutrient load from all point sources, relevant science is not functioning as it should.

Dr Peter Ridd-linked physics may be suppressed or not heard, proper solutions to GBR and world coral damage not urgently identified and put in place.
Surely all this should be brought out into the open, why not?

Go check your facts JF Aus.

The CSIRO "The East Australian Current flows south along the east coast of Australia from near Queensland’s Fraser Island to Tasmania".

Hell even Wikipedia agrees.

Hasbeen,
I suggest you post a link or source to evidence proving your claim I am incorrect.
I don't need to check such fact but I will post further evidence.

Google: ron boyd abstract sediment dispersal.

Note the last sentence states there are two currents off Australia's east coast flowing in opposite directions.

I have thorough understanding one is the longshore current that flows northwards, and the other is the East Australian Current that flows southwards. And neither start at Fraser Island.

If the Australian public ABC reported relevant new information news of substance about the ocean, both currents would be generally understood, less people would go missing, and nutrient pollution linked coral damage on the GBR would be reduced and not blamed on farmers.

And believe it or not effective employment and business generating water management solutions could then be seen and put in place

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