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fun thing, there was an actual expect on polar bears, an adjunct professor at UVic who had published a lot of papers and done seminars about how Polar Bear populations are rebounding and actually thriving, the opposite of the doomsday claims of misinformed climate alarmists of the 90s who tried to make polar bears into the mascot for endangered species. Its only logical of course, because the real threat to biodiversity is human overpopulation and encroachment on animal habitats, of which climate change is just one symptom, not the disease. And humans don't live in antarctica, so polar bears have a better time than most other mammals. So in the end it kind of got egg on the faces of the greens who wanted to claim polar bears were going extinct

anyway, the liberal university fired her for it
https://polarbearscience.com/2019/10/16/uvic-bows-to-outside-pressure-and-rescinds-my-adjunct-professor-status/
https://polarbearscience.files.***/2019/10/crockford-uvic-21-oct-2019-gwpf-briefing-45.pdf

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Her 'research' on polar bears is not peer-reviewed. Strike 1. Her actual expertise is in animal bone identification, not in polar bears. Strike 2. She's a full on climate change denier. Strike 3 and she's out.

Some academics believe that a degree in something will make you an expert in everything (Jordan B. Peterson being another example). Academics should stay in their lane when actually making claims.

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Her 'research' on polar bears is not peer-reviewed. Strike 1. Her actual expertise is in animal bone identification, not in polar bears. Strike 2. She's a full on climate change denier. Strike 3 and she's out.

Some academics believe that a degree in something will make you an expert in everything (Jordan B. Peterson being another example). Academics should stay in their lane when actually making claims.

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For Santara:

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