Ivor Van Heerden - The Scientist

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Professor Ivor Van Heerden helped create the storm surge model that warned of New Orleans vulnerability to levee failure. His work and his efforts to publicize this science was responsible for the saving of many thousands of lives.

After the levee system failure - until the BP well disaster, the biggest engineering failure in US history - Van Heerden pointed out that the levees failed because of poor design, constructions and maintenance.

For this, he was threatened by LSU administrators who said they did not want to lose US Army Corps of Engineer funding.

He was in fact fired without stated reason or cause and LSU continues to get grants from the US Army Corps of Engineers which continues to act without meaningful oversight putting thousands of lives and billions of dollars of property at risk.

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[Mindsi2]

One more example of how our government that is supposed to serve our interests really only serves the interests of the corporate elite. And how anybody that poses a threat to those interests gets treated.

[crescentrose]

i've been wondering who was the seminal person to get the word out about the dire risk in new orleans. seems it was dr. van heerden who used his academic funding and the media to get results. 95% of the people of new orleans (the ones who took it seriously and evacuated) owe their lives to him.

[marypoppins2009]

Shocking, tragic, corruption rampant, university corruption.....a good man fighting the Right fight....we must, we must...as Americans stand up with this man...as we are the role models in the world (supposedly) for justice, free speech, thought, research, sounding the alarm...all of that.....pay heed and do your duty by being an Activist in the First Degree....against Murder and Mayhem in the First Degree by unethical, elitists, Illuminati, Obama Admin...etc., etc,...on and on..