Oregon State University chemistry professor Nicholas Drapela was fired without warning three weeks ago and has still been given no reason for the university’s decision to “not renew his contract.” Drapela, an outspoken critic of man-made climate change, worked at the university for 10 years.
In the early years of his career, he published a number of textbooks, received a promotion to senior instructor and, in 2004, received a Loyd F. Carter award for outstanding and inspirational teacher.
In 2007, Drapela began giving talks on his own climate change skepticism. He often and openly questioned the science behind man-made global warming.
Drapela told the Daily Caller he was “blindsided” when the department chair called Drapela into his office to fire him on May 29.
“He read a prepared statement and took my key,” Drapela said, adding that he was given no reason in this meeting as to why he was being let go.
The timing of the termination was odd because Oregon State University was still in session, with finals approaching.
The good professor was endangering government grants. You can’t teach science when the school is getting paid for junkscience.
We had Paterno and we now have this. What is the world coming to?
There is far too much slaying of the denial straw dog. I can’t see the difference between Orly Taitz and John Kerry. Climate Science is a religion.
Considering how famously difficult it is to fire a tenured professor in an American University, this is concerning. Indeed, the tenure system was devised for this very situation, to protect a professor whose academic work causes difficulty for the university. At the very least, they could have provided him with a reason, grasping as it was. The way it was done is simply insulting.