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Sure we can’t and shouldn’t expect a Harvard, an MIT, a Cambridge on these shores and scientists of the calibre that work in those institutions to be present here, but it would be nice to think though that the scientists that we do have, have at least some standing of quality and ability and willingness to stand up for and fight for science, scientific enquiry, scientific knowledge, the scientific method and scientific debate.
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Why, because it’s full of pretty underwhelming scientists. New Zealand science is pretty underwhelming. I understand a number of well known global scientists have indeed e-mailed in.
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Remember, the only thing necessary for the triumph of intellectual intolerance is for believers in free speech to do nothing. You can email Roger Ridley, the chief executive. Letters from members of our own Royal Society, or any distinguished academics in the sciences and humanities, pointing out the absurdity of punishing a scientist for engaging in debate about the validity of science will help. And what does it say about the Royal Society that the majority of the panel they appointed were people who had already publicly decried the letter authors. For instance, two members of the three-person panel turned out to be signatories of the ‘open letter’ denouncing Professor Cooper so had to be replaced. The witch-finders disregarded several principles of natural justice in their prosecutorial zeal. Before long, five members of the Royal Society had complained and a panel was set up to investigate. They invited anyone who agreed with them to add their names to the ‘open letter’, and more than 2,000 academics duly obliged. Two of Professor Cooper’s academic colleagues, Dr Siouxsie Wiles and Dr Shaun Hendy, issued an ‘open letter’ condemning the heretics for causing ‘untold harm and hurt’.
In a hand-wringing, cry-bullying email to all staff at the university, she said the letter had ‘caused considerable hurt and dismay among our staff, students and alumni’ and said it pointed to ‘major problems with some of our colleagues’.
The views of the authors, who were all professors at Auckland, were denounced by the Royal Society, the New Zealand Association of Scientists, and the Tertiary Education Union, as well as by their own vice-chancellor, Dawn Freshwater. Toby Young writes in The Spectator:īut the moment this letter was published all hell broke loose. The international media have picked up the story of how the Royal Society of NZ has launched a modern version of the Spanish Inquisition.