Posted on 10/22/2019 2:13:06 PM PDT by Red Badger
The Canadian zoologist who led the way in debunking the claim that climate change is endangering polar bears says the University of Victoria bowed to "outside pressure" and fired her.
Susan Crockford, an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Victoria in Canada for 15 years, said her renewal application was rejected without explanation in May, despite her high profile as a speaker and author due to her polar bear research and expertise in mammal bone identification, the Washington Times reported.
Her research showed polar bear populations are stable and even thriving, contrary to the claims of climate activists that their numbers are plummeting due to shrinking Arctic sea ice.
Crockford, who earned a Ph.D. in biology and anthropology in 2004, described her expulsion as "an academic hanging without a trial, conducted behind closed doors.
In a post on her popular Polar Bear Science blog on Wednesday, she wrote: "When push came to shove, UVic threw me under the bus rather than stand up for my academic freedom."
On Monday, she noted on her blog that she was in London preparing for lecture on her 2019 book "The Polar Bear Catastrophe That Never Happened."
She said the university was supportive of her, promoting her interviews and work, until two years ago.
In May 2017, her lectures were shut down after the university's speakers bureau received a complaint of a "lack of balance," which, she said "poisoned support I might have expected from colleagues in the department."
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CLIMATE DENIER!
BURN HER AT THE STAKE!..................
To use a word that's popular at the moment, it sounds like an "academic lynching!"
Thou shalt not produce any antithetical climate data..................
Truth hurts.
Evil woman deserves to be fired!
How dare her, writing about the truth based on facts, real observations and other realities.
Ask the Eskimos.
That’s a bad idea, right?...
Lynch her!
The truth will set you free!!!..............and it did!...........
It could crawl through that window in two seconds.
Yeah, looks like graham crackers. Should have been salmon or seal.
LOL, nice.
Take off, you hoser.
Indeed. No heretics allowed in academia. The polar bears are thriving? We cannot abide any facts that undermine the narrative.
Looks like a cub.
The paw is not very big at all.
SCTV!........................
Wait till it comes back a year older!
Please refrain from showing that meme. It is close to dinner time here.
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