Comment on: LSU professor Ivor van Heerden sues university, says free speech rights violated in his firing

This is about academic freedom and responsibility. I you can go to an academicly acredited institution of higher learning and buy your view of the objective facts that institution should be immediately discredited and shuned by every professional organization committed to exposing the truth. This is a lose-lose for LSU. Customers buy objective truth rather a beauty context. Otherwise, academe would be just like a business with the credibility of a soap commercial.

My own research along entirely different lines that those used by Ivor indicated that the Corps was not using and has rejected using world class best practices for flood control which are to 1) put safety first and 2) to use a systems approach. As a result the Corps has ignored its own task force begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting whith found the flood protection system to be a system in name only. They have since removed the term or anything pertaining to system from their plans and doctrine and are still, along with the LA Office of Costal Restoration and Protection, following the failed and piecemeal protect planning process

Ivor is following a principled path which has safety critical consequences for those of us who live in threatened flood planes

Posted on LSU professor Ivor van Heerden sues university, says free speech rights violated in his firing on February 10, 2010, 6:07PM  on February 10, 2010, 6:07PM