VINDICATED: Researcher punished for exposing climate fraud beats UCLA

[Vigilante]

What a fucking LAME EXCUSE....They could see all those CLIMATE CHANGE GRANTS just flying out the window IF DRAGGED THROUGH COURT!!!!!

The College Fix ^
School says it’s purely a financial decision – trial ain’t cheap Scientific research at universities is supposed to involve inquiry into established theories and hypotheses. That is, unless they question environmental regulations. One UCLA science researcher, a 34-year veteran of the school, found himself out of a job in 2011 after examining the data underlying diesel regulations proposed by a California regulator and exposing the shoddy credentials of a lead author of that regulator’s report. James Enstrom secured victory in a two-and-a-half year legal battle against UCLA last week when the school agreed to settle the case. The school...

 

[Vigilante]

 

[Billy_Bob]

It is refreshing to see some courts looking at the real issue and dealing a death blow to the AGW lie. In this case the court was not going to be favorable in its decision to the school so they backed out and settled. The White House didn't want negative press or an official judicial response in the news about AGW. Rumors are many about the school being warned not to allow this to get into the press negatively this spring. So they settled.. All for the good of the agenda...

 

[Crick]

From the end of the OP's article:

Speaking about the settlement, UCLA told The Daily Bruin that it did not target Enstrom for his political beliefs.

It said that “Enstrom’s presence as a researcher for decades, despite his minority positions defending diesel emissions and tobacco, demonstrates” that UCLA promotes academic diversity.

A spokesman told The Fix that UCLA settled the case because it would cost “far less than the legal costs of a trial.” Enstrom’s settlement includes “some other incidental campus services, such as eligibility for parking and email, associated with his retiree status.”

College Fix reporter Matt Lamb is a student at Loyola University-Chicago.
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So, Enstrom worked at UCLA for years despite minority positions on diesel exhaust and tobacco. How does that gibe with your contentions regarding the school? And why wasn't this reported by a student at UCLA? Why was it reported by a student over a thousand miles away?

 

[Crick]

Here is a list of some of Enstrom's fine work:

http://people.healthsciences.ucla.edu/institution/personnel?personnel_id=66099

 

[Crick]

A slightly different take on the Enstrom-UCLA conflict

"In fact, Enstrom did so much work for Big Tobacco that when the United States Department of Justice summed up its civil RICO case against the cigarette makers [PDF] at the end of a months-long trial in a lengthy legal filing, Enstrom got his own chapter — one of just three scientists singled out by DOJ out of many dozens of tobacco-funded researchers for having been vital to the industry's efforts to sow confusion about the health effects of smoking." ibid

Tobacco Gun for Hire James Enstrom Willie Soon and the Climate Deniers Attack on Merchants of Doubt DeSmogBlog

"In fact, Enstrom did so much work for Big Tobacco that when the United States Department of Justice summed up its civil RICO case against the cigarette makers [PDF] at the end of a months-long trial in a lengthy legal filing, Enstrom got his own chapter — one of just three scientists singled out by DOJ out of many dozens of tobacco-funded researchers for having been vital to the industry's efforts to sow confusion about the health effects of smoking." ibid

Thirty years worth of pro-smoking Enstrom research funded by cigarette makers: Legacy Tobacco Documents Library Basic Search

Quite the fucking hero. You know he's giving advice to Willie Soon about suing the universities that employ the people who wrote the book on which the film Merchant of Doubt is based. Twins.

 

[Manonthestreet]

Seems like a small settlement...... I mean emotional distress is always expensive.......

 

[Crick]

I wonder how the university could have taken away his "title" as a "retired researcher".