The 2012 AAAS meeting, Flattening the World: Building a Global Knowledge Society, 16-20 February, in Vancouver Canada
Canadian government is ‘muzzling its scientists’ @ BBC
Muzzling of federal scientists targeted by campaign @ CBC
Ottawa ‘muzzling’ scientists, panel tells global research community @ Globe & Mail
For almost three weeks after David Tarasick published findings about one of the largest ozone holes ever discovered above the Arctic, the federal scientist was barred from breathing a word about it to the media.
Kristi Miller was similarly gagged from granting interviews about her own research into a virus that might be killing British Columbia’s wild sockeye salmon, despite going to print in the prestigious journal Science.Such incidents aren’t one-off occurrences, but instead represent a trend of “muzzling” policies being imposed on Canadian scientists by federal agencies under the Conservative government, a panel told their international peers Friday at a global science conference in Vancouver.
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