Marohasy on Counterpoint
On Counterpoint Michael Duffy interviewed Jennifer Marohasy on her recent Quadrant Online essay “The Murray: a fresh perspective”.
Listen to the Counterpoint audio here…
Read Jennifer’s essay “The Murray: a fresh perspective” here…
An edited version of this essay appeared in The Weekend Australian, 2-3 October, 2010.
Academics and others who dare to question the majority view are brutally told the science has been settled. Many such dissenters from catastrophist orthodoxy have lost their jobs, been denied promotion, or subjected to constant harassment and ridicule. This not the way science should be done
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