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Archived [ARCHIVED THREAD] - Tightened muzzle on scientists is 'Orwellian'
Posted: 9/13/2010 6:55:43 PM EDT



Let's control the message.










Documents  reveal
federal researchers, whose work is financed by taxpayers,  need approval
from Ottawa before speaking with media




By Margaret Munro, Postmedia News
September 13, 2010

















The Harper government has tightened the muzzle
on federal  scientists, going so far as to control when and what they
can say  about floods at the end of the last ice age.


Natural
Resources Canada (NRC) scientists were told this spring  they need
"pre-approval" from Minister Christian Paradis' office to  speak with
journalists. Their "media lines" also need ministerial  approval, say
documents obtained by Postmedia News through  access-to-information
legislation.


The documents say the "new" rules went into force in
March and  reveal how they apply to not only to contentious issues
including  the oilsands, but benign subjects such as floods that
occurred  13,000 years ago.


They also give a glimpse of how
Canadians are being cut off from  scientists whose work is financed by
taxpayers, critics say, and is  often of significant public interest ––
be it about fish stocks,  genetically modified crops or mercury
pollution in the Athabasca  River.





Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Tightened+muzzle+scientists+Orwellian/3515345/story.html#ixzz0zT7yT3AB
Link Posted: 9/13/2010 7:07:44 PM EDT
[#1]
The last thing we need is more yakking eggheads going off to make sensationalism for the press. Any info in Canada can be obtained through the information act...

Some of these things would be taken out of context by the green/left and exploited until they turn it into a new "inconvenient truth"...

Link Posted: 9/13/2010 7:34:23 PM EDT
[#2]
OP:  Knowing your positions, I'd assume you'd be in favor of this.

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