News out of California and that bastion of truth, UCLA. A respected academic is being forced out for speaking the truth about environmental issues. His "crime":
Dr. James E. Enstrom’s peer-reviewed research challenged California’s
status quo by contending that exposure to fine particulate matter, like
diesel particles, does not kill. The majority of his colleagues believe
the particles cause lung cancer and death, a popular belief that Enstrom
said ignores evidence to the contrary.
Pulling back the curtain:
Enstrom charged in 2008 that his colleagues exaggerated the adverse
effects of particulate matter in order to justify expensive diesel fuel
regulations to the California Air Resources Board (CARB). Enstrom
testified in the same year to the state Senate that the lead contributor
to the CARB report, Hien T. Tran, paid $1,000 for his Ph.D. from a fake
university, and members of a CARB panel had exceeded their mandated
three-year term limits by decades.
Shortly after Enstrom revealed the misconduct, UCLA began sending him
notices of termination and has refused to compensate him for more than a
year’s worth of work.
You see, only true believers are allowed. Otherwise you are banished to the hinterlands.
“The facts of this case are astounding,” said David French, senior
counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice and one of Enstrom’s
lawyers. “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.”
Interestingly, there's support for Enstrom within the university, just not at the top:
The UCLA’s Academic Freedom Committee, made up of professors and
students, unanimously expressed concern in 2011 that the School of
Public Health’s decision to lay off Enstrom “may represent a violation
of academic freedom.”
Read the whole story at the
Daily Caller. H/T to
Moonbattery.
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