James Cook University (JCU) is probably best known to most people (to the extent it is known at all) for its shameful attempt to suppress academic freedom in the case of Professor Peter Ridd. Now comes a case in which highly touted, peer-reviewed and published JCU research has been shown to be, well, not reproducible. Unfortunately for JCU, this crushing finding was made by researchers at a different Australian university, so the "Ridd solution" of sacking the critic(s) is not available. James Cook University Researchers Refuted: “Ocean Acidification Does not Impair” Fish behaviour By P Gosselin on 27. June 2021 Share this... Die kalte Sonne’s latest video here looks at a recent paper on ocean acidification and the impact it had been claimed to have on the behavior of coral fish. Lower ocean pH level affecting fish? Earlier research beginning in 2009 by Prof. Philip Munday and Danielle Dixon of Australia’s James Cook University suggested that that “ocean acidification” was having dire effects on fish behavior, thus prompting the IPCC to claim in a 2014 report that it could lead to “profound consequences for marine diversity” and the media to put out a series of climate doomsday reports. But the alarming research results of Munday and Dixon have since been seriously challenged by a group led by fish physiologist Timothy Clark of Deakin University in Geelong, Australia in a recent paper: A year ago the researchers published the results of a comprehensive 3-year study in the journal of Nature in a paper titled: “Ocean acidification does not impair the behaviour of coral reef fishes“. . . .
