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Hey, you in the lab coat. Stop your filthy science right now, I have policy to fabricate!
If Steven Harper was a puppy, he would be getting a firm “NO” and a being ignored right now when it comes to his views on science and the dissemination of scientific knowledge through government agencies. We get it Stevie, you hates the empirical reality that science provides because it makes your socially conservative ideology(census anyone, or Prisons perhaps?) look like horseshit.
Our systematic dismembering of Canadian Science has not gone unnoticed. Nature has released a short editorial decrying the ineptitude of the our Conservative government on the handling of science.
“Over the same period, Canada has moved in the opposite direction [from the fundagelically fracked up United States, no less]. Since Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party won power in 2006, there has been a gradual tightening of media protocols for federal scientists and other government workers. Researchers who once would have felt comfortable responding freely and promptly to journalists are now required to direct inquiries to a media-relations office, which demands written questions in advance, and might not permit scientists to speak. Canadian journalists have documented several instances in which prominent researchers have been prevented from discussing published, peer-reviewed literature. Policy directives and e-mails obtained from the government through freedom of information reveal a confused and Byzantine approach to the press, prioritizing message control and showing little understanding of the importance of the free flow of scientific knowledge.”
You know there is a problem when we are being compared negatively to the US with regards to the dissemination of scientific information.
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