http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Feds+silence+scientist+over+salmon+study/5162633/story.htmlVancouver Sun: Feds silence scientist over salmon study that got
published in the journal Science. Abstract at PubMed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21233388"VANCOUVER — Top bureaucrats in Ottawa have muzzled a leading
fisheries scientist whose discovery could help explain why salmon
stocks have been crashing off Canada's West Coast, according to
documents obtained by Postmedia News.
The documents show the Privy Council Office, which supports the Prime
Minister's Office, stopped Kristi Miller from talking about one of the
most significant discoveries to come out of a federal fisheries lab in
years.
Science, one of the world's top research journals, published Miller's
findings in January. The journal considered the work so significant it
notified "over 7,400" journalists worldwide about Miller's "Suffering
Salmon" study.
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Miller heads a $6-million salmon-genetics project at the federal
Pacific Biological Station on Vancouver Island.
The documents show major media outlets were soon lining up to speak
with Miller, but the Privy Council Office said no to the interviews.
The Privy Council Office also nixed a Fisheries Department news
release about Miller's study, saying the release "was not very good,
focused on salmon dying and not on the new science aspect," according
to documents obtained by Postmedia News under the Access to
Information Act.
Miller is still not allowed to speak publicly about her discovery, and
the Privy Council Office and Fisheries Department defend the way she
has been silenced.
But observers say it is indefensible and more evidence of the way the
government is undermining its scientists."
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Apparently the editors at Science thought the paper was so significant
that they contacted over 7,400 journalists world wide to tell them
about it, but the conservative government thought otherwise.
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