Comments on: A response to Trump’s gag order on scientists

By: Cory Litster

Cory Litster — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 23:03:43 +0000

FOR GREAT RESULT GET ON TRUMPS EMAIL THEN SEND THIS MESSAGE DUMP TRUMP

By: Wow

Wow — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 11:08:19 +0000

https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/01/24/2059242/usda-scrambles-to-ease-concerns-after-researchers-were-ordered-to-stop-publishing-publicly-funded-science

By: Doug Alder

Doug Alder — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 02:28:46 +0000

Greg – see https://twitter.com/Aerin_J/status/823951469543964672
She is a Canadian postdoc talking about the failure of Canadian scientists to jump right on the Harper administration’s gagging of Canadian scientists and destruction of research data and research libraries. US researchers need to learn from the bitter lesson so many Canadian researchers learned

By: Brainstorms

Brainstorms — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 01:08:12 +0000

First they came for the DOE employees, and I did not speak out —
Because I was not an DOE employee.

Then they came for the EPA employees, and I did not speak out —
Because I was not an EPA employee.

Then they came for the USDA employees, and I did not speak out —
Because I was not a USDA employee.

Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me.

By: Wow

Wow — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 01:00:03 +0000

Pfft. The UK started 1984 with Tony. It’s just that enough people noticed it and didn’t want it that it slowed down (didn’t reverse, though) fairly quickly.

By: Brainstorms

Brainstorms — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 00:52:11 +0000

1984 is not a work of fiction. It is a biography of America, circa 2017. "Je suis Winston"

By: Brainstorms

Brainstorms — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 00:48:59 +0000

Suppressing public servant scientists from communicating with the American public is a dangerous move that sets us on a path where policy decisions are divorced from reality.

Voting for Donald Trump was a dangerous move by the American public that has set us on a path where policy decisions are divorced from reality.

FTFY

By: Jamie Farren

Jamie Farren — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 00:46:40 +0000

I am a student studying Environmental Science at an American university. I have already had the pleasure of conducting my own research (generously funded by my university) and I wish to pursue a career in research.

Perhaps I should keep my head down and my mouth shut about this gag order. Perhaps I should focus on thoughts of my future and the opportunities I may lose if I speak out…but I’ve never been very good at being quiet.

I wish to announce my defiance of any political act that would curtail open access to scientific information/research. I declare that I stand with my future colleagues and current friends in opposing any policies meant to silence them. I reject the authority of anyone who claims to want unity, yet acts to separate the public from an irreplaceable source of knowledge that could empower their decisions.

Scientific freedom will not be surrendered.