In some places, young
scientists took legal action.
Not exact matches
The risk of
legal attack on any individual
scientist is small, but there are
actions researchers can
take to protect and defend themselves against politically - motivated attacks.
• Educate researchers about their
legal rights and responsibilities on issues surrounding their work; • Serve as a clearinghouse for information related to
legal actions taken against
scientists; and • Recruit and assist lawyers representing these
scientists.
To carry out this suicide mission they choose 4 brilliant, easily - corrupted
scientists, of whom only one is still alive today to
take legal action.
5) False premises are routinely thrown around as facts, i.e. that skeptics engage in death threats (although this is little more than an allegation by one climate
scientist under investigation at the time) with no
legal action taken to support it or any publication of emails etc..
Jacobson has even suggested that he might
take legal action against NOAA
scientist Christopher Clack and twenty coauthors whose critical evaluation of his work was published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in June.
While the risk of
legal attack on any individual
scientist is small, there are
actions scientists can
take to help reduce the risk of attack, especially from invasive FOIA requests.
The release of the AGU paper without agreement of its membership gives the best opportunity for skeptical
scientists to assert themselves.Act now and do it with
legal advice.Do not resign from AGU but encourage other skeptical
scientists to join pronto.Judith Curry and Pielke Senior should circulate a dissenting motion and request a general vote of all membership If AGU do not allow your
actions to proceed
take them to court Publicise your position and develop a plan to go with this.
We also serve as a clearinghouse for information related to
legal action taken against
scientists, which can inform strategies for — and outcomes of — future cases.