Re:Canada's Muzzled Scientists Can Speak Freely Again
by SwellJoe on Sunday November 15, 2015 @05:06PM
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A key difference:
You were employed by a private party. The muzzled scientists were employed by the citizens of Canada.
To make your example comparable, you would have been employed by an attorney on behalf of the attorney's client, and then the information you found would have been withheld from the client who was paying for it. I'm not saying that doesn't happen, but it would be a breach of ethics on the part of the attorney to do so. Just as, in this case, it was a breach of ethics for the Canadian government to force scientists to withhold information from the people of Canada.
You were employed by a private party. The muzzled scientists were employed by the citizens of Canada.
To make your example comparable, you would have been employed by an attorney on behalf of the attorney's client, and then the information you found would have been withheld from the client who was paying for it. I'm not saying that doesn't happen, but it would be a breach of ethics on the part of the attorney to do so. Just as, in this case, it was a breach of ethics for the Canadian government to force scientists to withhold information from the people of Canada.