Climate Science and Labor Law
What happens when scientific integrity runs into political interference? More specifically, can a scientist, fired by the Trump administration for doing her job, successfully sue for wrongful termination?
We’re about to find out, as Maria Caffrey (pictured), who alleges she lost her job with the National Park Service because she refused to eliminate mentions of human-caused climate change from a report, goes to court.
We all need to hope that this asinine period of U.S. history is short-lived, and that it never happens again.
Craig,
You completely lost any sort of objectivity you once possessed.
Maria Caffrey was not “Fired” ! She was always a contracted temporary employee hired for a specific program. That program terminated and her contract expired.
Quite unbidden, Maria Caffrey decided to write an activist report of her own, completely unsubstantiated and totally irrelevant.
She was informed she would not be rehired as there was no funding program for the project she wished to pursue. National Park Service didn’t need her services.
Caffrey admits her lawsuit is just a publicity device to advertise her “integrity and belief in science”.
She also admits lying on her application form, but claims justification in the name of advancing science.
After reading her paper, which she had hoped would be the basis for obtaining a PHD, the report appears little more than a mis-mash of already know material with conjecture and emotive material substitutes to overcome any actual research.
Caffrey is free to publish what ever papers she wishes, but as a student. What she is not entitled to is insist the National Park Service provide her with a sinecure at the taxpayers expense to finance her private academic career.