Earlier this week the story of Dr. Nickolas Drapela broke. Dr. Drapela was fired from Oregon State University after being a thorn in the politics of the climate agenda at OSU.
Oregon State University Fires Scientist For Being An UnbelieverNow, Anthony Watts reports an even more egregious firing of a 35-year university professor at UCLA.
Another skeptical university professor fired – related to CARB’s PM2.5 air pollution regulation scandal
“The facts of this case are astounding,” said David French, senior counsel for the ACLJ. “UCLA terminated a professor after 35 years of service simply because he exposed the truth about an activist scientific agenda that was not only based in fraud but violated California law for the sake of imposing expensive new environmental regulations on California businesses.”
French said, “UCLA’s actions were so extreme that its own Academic Freedom Committee unanimously expressed its concern about the case.” [read the whole story at the link above]Other than a couple of professors who had their careers ruined, what's the problem? Well, how about billions of taxpayer dollars being funneled into onerous and unnecessary special interests?
If there was any doubt that honesty and integrity have been eliminated from the progressive-environmental left-wing academia, these attempts to squash scientific-based challenges should put those doubts to rest.