7 October 2019
Climate Change: The Facts — And How You Can Help To Spread Them
As the editor of the last book — and the next — in the Institute of Public Affairs’ Climate Change: The Facts series I spend a lot of time pondering the nature of ‘facts’. A fact is something that has become known as true. A fact may be dependent on accumulated knowledge. Facts are considered superior to an opinion or
15 February 2018
Censure Of Professor Peter Ridd Over Comments Of Scientific Integrity A Troubling Development
Academic freedom is one of the core values of our society, which is why the case of Professor Peter Ridd is so troubling. The attack on Professor Peter Ridd’s academic freedom to discuss scientific integrity may very well mark the end of the Enlightenment at one of Australia’s universities. Ridd has been issued a “Final Censure” by James Cook University
2 February 2018
The Extraordinary Resilience Of Great Barrier Reef Corals, And Problems With Policy Science
The following is an excerpt from Peter Ridd’s chapter in Climate Change: The Facts 2017, published by the IPA in 2017. :A PDF of the full chapter is available here, and the book can be purchased here. The Great Barrier Reef is often used to show the imminent crisis we are supposedly facing from climate change. It is photogenic, the
1 February 2018
Professor Peter Ridd Standing Up For Scientific Integrity Against James Cook University
James Cook University is threatening scientific integrity by seeking to censor one of its academic staff members, Professor Peter Ridd, according to John Roskam, the Executive Director of the Institute of Public Affairs. “The university should not be attempting to silence the scientific debate about the impact of climate change. Professor Ridd is a world expert on the Great Barrier
