Canadian scientists lend support to muzzled US counterparts

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Source: The Guardian

Canadian scientists lend support to muzzled US counterparts

For nine years under Canada’s previous government, science
suffered harsh restrictions. Now US scientists may be facing
a similar fate

Ashifa Kassam in Toronto
Friday 27 January 2017 08.00 GMT

Canadian scientists – who were muzzled for nearly a decade by the country’s previous Conservative government – have been making contact with their counterparts in the US to offer their support and solidarity amid mounting fears that Donald Trump’s presidency will seek to suppress climate science.

For nine years, scientists with Canada’s federal government grappled with what many described as an all out assault on science.

Scientific libraries were closed, programmes suffered drastic cutbacks while federal scientists were banned from talking to media on topics that ranged from snowflakes to salmon and even a 13,000-year-old flood.

“It was a dramatic departure from past practices,” said Robert MacDonald, who has worked as a federal government scientist for nearly 30 years.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jan/27/canadian-scientists-lend-support-to-muzzled-us-counterparts

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1. It is amazing to me how conservatives always want to deny hard science facts

and replace science with alternative facts, voodoo, fundamentalist religions and just plain old lies. It is even more astounding that people that hold and support these beliefs are running our governments.