Peter Ridd is a modern-day heretic, in the mould of Galileo Galilei, who was forced by the Renaissance Catholic Church to recant his theory that the earth travelled around the sun.
As the High Court of Australia found, Ridd was unjustly denied his academic freedom by his employer, James Cook University for saying that the work of some of his colleagues on the Great Barrier Reef was "not trustworthy".
In Reef Heresy Ridd pins his thesis to the door, and lays out the evidence for why he is right and they are wrong. It is a crucial book for those wanting to understand the Reef - perhaps Australia's greatest natural wonder - and why UNESCO attempts to put it on the endangered list should fail.
A must read for anyone who votes and cares about the environment.