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Scientists Want To Keep Their Research Work Out of Court
concealment writes "How much privacy is the scientific process entitled to? During the course of their work, researchers produce e-mails, preliminary results, and peer reviews, all of which might be more confused or critical than the final published works. Recently, both private companies with a vested interest in discounting the results, and private groups with a political axe to grind have attempted to use the courts to get access to that material.Would it be possible or wise to keep these documents private and immune to subpoenas? In the latest issue of Science, a group of researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) argue that scientists need more legal rights to retain these documents and protect themselves in court."
No, he probably means his tax returns from more than the last two years in which he was running for president and knew he would have to disclose. The tax returns he may not have realized anyone would ever see, so he may have felt entitled to cheap out on even more than he did with the tax returns he DID release.
A wonderfully touching story. The current Mayor of Toronto is also full of touching one-on-one stories. He's also the single worst mayor in the history of Toronto. Anyone who doesn't agree with him 100% is a leftie commie liberal. There is such a mindbogglingly long list of things that he has done to actively hurt the public good, that it's astonishing.
So yeah, it's one thing to help individual people that you can meet face to face. It's another thing entirely to help the people you *don't* see face to face, en masse. Or the people who you can't relate directly to.
And THAT is where a leaders importance comes in, not in the individual exceptions.