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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump stopping US government scientists from speaking out publicly is 'chilling'
Donald Trump stopping US government scientists from speaking out publicly is 'chilling'The American Association for the Advancement of Science warns against 'censorship and intimidation'
Ian Johnston Environment Correspondent
The Trump administrations decision to stop Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials and other government staff from speaking out publicly has prompted the countrys leading scientific organisation to warn against censorship and intimidation.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the largest scientific society in the world, said many federal agencies had policies that prohibit political interference in how they relay information to the public.
And the World Resources Institute think tank said the move to stop the free flow of information would have a chilling effect on staff.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-gag-us-government-scientists-environment-stop-speaking-public-tweeting-twitter-climate-a7544971.html
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Donald Trump stopping US government scientists from speaking out publicly is 'chilling' (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Jan 2017
OP
The beauty of this is even if trump goes, the GOP is going to reverse ALL
Eliot Rosewater
Jan 2017
#4
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)1. He is a dictator, he takes notes from Putin
America is gone, we need to understand that.
Underground action is needed now, legal and nonviolent but needed.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)2. People don't understand yet
that America died when the usurper put his p*ssy grabbing hand on the Bible and lied.
It's becoming clearer day by day.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)4. The beauty of this is even if trump goes, the GOP is going to reverse ALL
positive actions this nation has taken in 100 years, they will make most of us homeless or working poor and they will have orgasms doing it to us.
I just wonder what their supporters will do, other than blame it on Obama
frazzled
(18,402 posts)3. There may be a Scientist's March on Washington
Read this in an email from the Washington Post (Daily 202) this morning:
Several scientists are now trying to organize another march on Washington, akin to last weekends womens march, to raise awareness about what they see as Trumps hostility to science.
It sent me to the developing story:
Then someone wrote, There needs to be a Scientists' March on Washington.
"100%, someone replied. Dozens of others agreed.
One participant in the exchange, University of Texas Health Science Center postdoctoral fellow Jonathan Berman, took the conversation to heart. In short order, the march had a Facebook page (whose membership swelled from 200 people on Tuesday night to more than 150,000 by Wednesday at noon), a Twitter handle, a website, two co-chairs, Berman and science writer and public health researcher Caroline Weinberg, and a Google form through which interested researchers could sign up to help.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/01/24/are-scientists-going-to-march-on-washington/?utm_term=.1ceadba6f6c5&wpisrc=nl_daily202&wpmm=1
"100%, someone replied. Dozens of others agreed.
One participant in the exchange, University of Texas Health Science Center postdoctoral fellow Jonathan Berman, took the conversation to heart. In short order, the march had a Facebook page (whose membership swelled from 200 people on Tuesday night to more than 150,000 by Wednesday at noon), a Twitter handle, a website, two co-chairs, Berman and science writer and public health researcher Caroline Weinberg, and a Google form through which interested researchers could sign up to help.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/01/24/are-scientists-going-to-march-on-washington/?utm_term=.1ceadba6f6c5&wpisrc=nl_daily202&wpmm=1
Lisa0825
(14,487 posts)6. It is being organized!
Arkansas Granny
(31,532 posts)5. When is this called censorship?