Reddit reviews Polar Bear Facts & Myths: A science summary for all ages

University dumps professor who found polar bears thriving despite climate change This summer Dr. Susan Crockford is a zoologist with more than 35 years experience, including published work on the Holocene history of Arctic animals. This summer she lost her status as Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada (UVic), a position she had held for 15 years. This action followed her expulsion from the roster of the university’s volunteer Speakers Bureau in May 2017. Having undergone hip surgery in the interim, only now is she going public about it. However, until April 2017 the university and the Anthropology department proudly promoted her work, including her critical polar bear commentary, which suggests someone with influence (and perhaps political clout) intervened to silence her scientific criticism.

An adjunct professorship is an unpaid position with a few responsibilities that in return allow a scholar to operate as a qualified member of the academic community, such as making applications for research funding. See also:

• Dr. Susan Crockford: UVic bows to outside pressure and rescinds my adjunct professor status
  
• Bioscience article is academic rape: an assertion of power and intimidation: “The purpose of these papers is not to communicate. It is to excommunicate.”
  
• Of the 19 recognized polar bear subpopulations, one is in decline, two are increasing, seven are stable, and nine have insufficient data, as of 2017. This is example of the replication crisis gripping so many areas of science.
  
• Polar bear attack paper invalidated by non-independent analysis
  
• Climate Change Denialists Say Polar Bears Are Fine. Scientists Are Pushing Back
  
• Trump has announced that he's signing a new executive order that will force colleges to either start supporting free speech, or lose all federal funding, including grant and research funding.
  
  You can also support Dr. Crockford by buying her books:
  
  
• The Polar Bear Catastrophe That Never Happened (a review)
  
• Polar Bear Facts & Myths: A science summary for all ages
  
• Polar Bears Have Big Feet
  
• Polar Bears: Outstanding Survivors of Climate Change
  
• Eaten: A novel