Academic freedom
is dead, as it was under Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and Mao. The right of
climate professors to follow wherever science and logic lead them is now being
ruthlessly suppressed – and this time throughout the once-free West. Seven
case histories. First, professor X. He cannot be named for fear of reprisals. A
university approached him, invited him to travel halfway around the world, paid
his airfares and accommodation, offered him a senior professorship and research
facilities, and sent him home telling him a contract would be in the post. Then the government discovered professor X
had once written an influential paper questioning the climate “consensus.” More
than a year after he was offered the job, the vice-chancellor and the dean
continue to say the contract will be with him any day now. But he has good
reason to suspect that will not happen unless and until the government changes……ToRead More
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