Ashli Babbitt was an Air Force veteran who served our country for 12+ years and won awards for her service in Iraq.
Ashli Babbitt was 5-foot-2, weighed 115 pounds, and was unarmed.
Lt. Michael Byrd shot her in the neck for the crime of trespassing despite the fact that armed cops were right behind her.
4 years later, 0 consequences.
The easiest way to manufacture a consensus is by silencing scientists who don’t agree with a pre-approved storyline by threatening to blacklist them from employment, cutting their funding opportunities and/or trying to get their current employers to fire them by organizing pressure campaigns. It is just professional cancel culture.
That’s why most scientists who speak out against the sounding climate change alarm are nearing retirement age or are already retired. Most just play the game for 30-40 years until they are financially secure enough to risk it all. I know quite a few academics in my field who privately agree with my efforts, but pretend not to and play the game until they too inch closer to retirement.
As a prime example, Dr. Judith Curry was once hailed as a hero in the science “community” because of a paper she co-authored that happened to be published in Science Magazine less than two weeks after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 which found that tropical cyclone frequency and intensity had increased globally over the preceding 35 years, and linked it to more favorable thermodynamics caused by global warming.
🔗 https://t.co/hVt7WnhKoA (open access here: https://t.co/wMQRIT4wvE)
After the Climategate email leaks from the University of East Anglia in 2009, she got to see firsthand — as did everyone else — the sausage-making that went into manufacturing scientific consensus on global warming. More specifically, the emails revealed how lead IPCC authors conspired to avoid FOIA requests, withhold their data from researchers who had questioned their research findings and methods, and conspired to exclude studies from their synthesis review of the literature that contradicted messaging IPCC authors wanted to adhere to.
Many atmospheric scientists, Dr. Curry included, began to question consensus and the IPCC’s process, and performed their own audits of the broader science by dipping their fingers into areas beyond their narrow focus of expertise to familiarize and educate themselves on it. She then reevaluated her position, like any good scientist would, and ever since has been treated as a heretic by jerks in the scientific community who are lauded by professional institutions as “leading experts” on the cutting edge of science.
Other scientists have been subject to academic bullying including my friend Dr. Roger Pielke, Sr. (who is the smartest meteorologist I know); his son Pielke, Jr.; my dear friend Dr. William Happer, Dr. Willie Soon, Dr. Richard Lindzen, Dr. John Christy, Dr. Roy Spencer, Dr. Cliff Mass and the late Dr. William Gray.
While I’d say that a majority of “climate scientists” are good people — at least I’d like to think they are — most of them just keep their heads down and go along with the storyline of doom because they know what they have to say to get funded, get published in prestigious journals, collect accolades for their work at, say, AGU, and have lucrative careers in academia at major universities with six figure salaries.
While they may be good people, those who play the game lack integrity in calling out the bullying that goes on behind the scenes and on social media. And, that is a major problem.
The media wasn’t allowed to tell you this Jihadist flag waved from the truck a terrorist used to kill 15 Americans until an hour or so ago, but if you were on X, you knew this 12 hours ago.
Stop watching corporate media and listening to its lackeys.
Elderly man arrested in Britain for “causing anxiety” with a social media post. This is insane.
Thank God there is a constitutional right to freedom of speech in America!