Re:USDA disavows gag-order emailed to scientific research unit
by astrodust on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @04:05AM
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It's not just the Republicans that are eager to cut scientists off from the media and the public. The Conservative party in Canada did exactly the same thing, much to the dismay of scientists and the public: http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/when-science-goes-silent/
They also infamously shut down a climate research centre that was keeping ice-core samples frozen. http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/tories-cutting-vita...
Anything that contradicts the messaging of a modern "conservative" party is something that must be destroyed.
Re:USDA disavows gag-order emailed to scientific research unit
by scholia on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @09:17AM
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Yes. BI ran a good story on this: http://uk.businessinsider.com/conservative-media-trump-drudg...
During the election, some of the conservative opinionators (bloggers, radio, etc.) who opposed Trump observed that they had no way to credibly contradict Trump in the eyes of their readers, as they had delegitimatized all other sources of information.