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Pulling Back Canadian Censorship of Science
http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/pulling-back-canadian-censorship-of-science/"During the recent Harper administration in Canada, scientists doing federal research were effectively censored from speaking with the media. This was a clear attempt at controlling the narrative with regard to environmental issues, from global warming to the effect of fisheries and water quality.
Now that the Harper administration has been replaced by the Trudeau administration, the restrictions are being lifted and scientists are able to talk about how oppressive the Harper restrictions truly were.
Nature has an in depth report, which discusses the totalitarian atmosphere created by the Harper restrictions. Essentially reporters could no longer directly contact federal scientists to verify facts or comment on their research. Rather, they had to go through a series of government officials. This became more frustrating and time consuming than navigating the DMV, and as a result reporters could never get any comment prior to their deadlines.
The end result was that journalists simply stopped trying. There was no point. This effectively cut off communication between federal scientists in Canada and the press.
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Link to the report in Nature: http://www.nature.com/news/nine-years-of-censorship-1.19842
