Dr. Jennifer Marohasy writes:
Peter Ridd’s trial was set-down to be heard over three days next week, beginning on Monday 12th November. Many of us have made plans to travel to Brisbane – booked and paid for accommodation – to simply be there, to support Peter as he takes on the institutions in his fight for truth, and some quality assurance of Great Barrier Reef science.
I’d been told that the case would be heard by Judge Jarrett, who presided over the proceedings earlier in the year. Now I’m told it’s all been cancelled, at least for the moment – and that Peter can wait until next year, that his case against unfair dismissal by James Cook University might be heard next year.
Over the last week I’ve posted four articles at my blog.
1. ‘Peter Ridd and the Clowns of Reef Science’ is an introduction to some of the issues, taking a bigger picture view.
2. ‘No Mud on my Barnacles’ is for those who like natural history and would like to understand more about me, and the mud at north Queensland beaches.
3. ‘The Prince and His Dump Truck’ is about some of the personalities behind the WWF Save the Reef campaign that was launched in June 2001 – including Willem-Alexander, now the King of Holland.
4. ‘Denying Comment from Experts, from the Marine Geophysical Laboratory’ is about Peter, and also Ken Woolfe who died tragically on 1 December 1999.
I’m hopeful these articles provide some background information – and also encouragement to Peter, who now must suffer through Christmas and the New Year with his life-on-hold.
Sadly the best he can hope for is a pay off , and limited degree of ‘lesson learned ‘ talk from the university and a media that does not give it any coverage at all .
The real question will be who will be brave enough to support him in his own field and who will keep they heads down and their mouth shut to keep the grant money flowing in even if in private they will admit he has right and the university wrong .
A lot of vested interest in keeping that scare going , a log of politicians who nailed their flag to that mast and a lot of university positions and the ‘research’ that goes with it depend on the money the whole thing brings in . On the other hand what is the benefit of admitting there is no doom to these people ?
To the strange Mosher, when you can predict something accurately, very often you are correct in your assumptions. Apply this to your above bizarre statement re conspiracy theories and climate science in general and you might begin to see where you are going wrong.
Did you not think he would get the runaround by the courts? I did. We all did actually. And do you believe the predictions made by “climate scientists” even though they are always proven wrong? I don’t and didn’t and no one here other than you, does…and…you are wrong, every time. Yet hear you are making a completely predictable statement copied straight from the big book of Liberal lies…as used by the MSM to deride anyone who has an idea outside their own drone like group think narrative.
Its sad really, but predictable.
The longer the delay for them to finalise it, the more he can go after them for in damages.
This is “The Process” all over again. It has all the hallmarks:
“Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested.” From its gripping first sentence onward, this novel exemplifies the term “”Kafkaesque.” Its darkly humorous narrative recounts a bank clerk’s entrapment — based on an undisclosed charge — in a maze of nonsensical rules and bureaucratic roadblocks. (From Wikipedia)
Simmer down. Peter R told me yesterday that he was told that no judge was available for the originally scheduled time. That could have lots of causes – another case might have over-run its time, maybe a judge wanted to take leave or had leave forced on him or her, or maybe a judge needed reasonably urgent medical treatment.
Yes, it’s an inconvenience in some ways, but it also means more time to prepare for the case.