By Andrew Bolt ~
Bjorn Lomborg on the despicable campaign by group-thinking academics to shut down his proposed centre at the University of Western Australia:
Bjørn Lomborg
Opponents of free debate are celebrating. Last week, under pressure from climate-change activists, the University of Western Australia cancelled its contract to host a planned research centre, Australia Consensus, intended to apply economic cost-benefit analysis to development projects — giving policymakers a tool to ensure their aid budgets are spent wisely.
The centre in Perth was to be a collaboration with a think tank I run, Copenhagen Consensus, which for a decade has conducted similar research. Working with more than 100 economists, including seven Nobel laureates, we have produced research that measures the social and economic benefits of a wide range of policies, such as fighting malaria, reducing malnutrition, cutting air pollution, improving education and tackling climate change.
Therein lay the problem. This…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
May 18, 2015 @ 09:38:05
Typical Bolt, too lazy to find out what the real facts were. The Centre wasn’t going to look at climate science. The major problem is Lomborg’s academic credentials. His publishing is not of a high standard.
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May 18, 2015 @ 15:33:59
Good point about academic credentials, but that would require you to chain yourself to the barricades whenever a retired politician, ex-bureaucrat or businessmen was appointed to an academic post including visiting or adjunct.
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May 18, 2015 @ 21:50:17
You do not have a centre of excellence when the said person has not written many quality papers that have been published anywhere.
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May 18, 2015 @ 22:49:47
Hum. That sets a high standard for many an endowed research centres.
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May 19, 2015 @ 17:08:36
and so it should
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