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Canadian Scientists Protest Political Sandbagging of Evidence-Based Policy
New submitter sandbagger writes "Stephen Harper and the Canadian government have made headlines several times for stifling opinions that dissent with their own. This also applies to respected, peer-reviewed science. Canadian scientists have chafed at being gagged and having evidence take a back seat when forming policy, so they're grabbing their slide rules and marching in protest. 'Hundreds of participants gathered in 17 cities for rallies on Monday. In Toronto some donned lab coats while in Vancouver protesters were seen wearing gags adorned with the Conservative Party logo – a reference to the alleged muzzling of federal scientists by political overseers. ... Dr. Gibbs and colleagues said they hoped the rallies would alert the public to scientists’ concerns that the federal government has shifted funding markedly toward commercially driven research at the expense of public-interest science. ... Dr. Gibbs said her group would consult with the Canadian research community and look to other countries in trying to craft recommended policies for science in government. In recent years explicit scientific integrity rules have been adopted by many U.S. federal departments and agencies, after accusations of censorship and politicization of science during the administration of former president George W. Bush. 'Canadian scientists are where American scientists were maybe a decade ago,' said Michael Halpern, a Washington, D.C.-based program manager with the Union of Concerned Scientists. 'They're trying to figure out how to protect themselves from a government that’s increasingly focused on message control over a more open discussion of the facts.'"
"evidence based ----" has become a code phrase for corruption, political control in govt sponsored "science". Look at "climate science" which is rapidly sinking on the shoals of physics, statistics and total lack of prediction. Look at medicine, bankrupting the country with a lot more sick people. I can get a much better science based result plus a 98% cost discount myself. Atlas is shrugging.
The left like convicts believes they are entitled to get stuff they didn't work for.
The left believe that corporations that employ people are evil and that people should live off the government.
The left believes abortion is a women's choice and the result is millions dead because of selfishness. An entire generation that was suppose to be there to support us in our old age has been eliminated and populations are declining and being replaced with immigrants.
The left will believe in climate change religiously but when scientists say pot is bad for you they will argue tooth and nail because the left is basically a bunch of pot heads.
The left have fanatical beliefs that they are the only ones who care for the environment but you don't see them carless shivering in the dark.
The left give the rich their money and then want to tax it all back.
The left believe in making dramatic policy shifts based on evidence. In the 70s we were told that science has proven that we were on our way to another ice age. The was science saying the earth was getting colder and ice core samples proving that was the case. Problem was the science was wrong.
The left would have the government run our lives and bankrupt us.
Sure there is evidence, my friend. The world is a giant laboratory and in it we can easily find enough evidence. Evidence that leftists are more than ready to ignore. Always.
Leftists defend state control over the economy regardless of the fact that it has been proven, by the economic calculation problem that it is simply impossible for centralized control to work.
Leftists defend political and economical models that have been empirically shown time and time again ineffective and unsustainable at their best and catastrophic at their worse, but who cares about those last dozen tries or so, THIS time it will work, right?
Leftists ignore that there isn't any other economical system that got even near Capitalism in improving the lives of common people.
Leftists blatantly ignore that all countries that have the freest economies have consistently improved the quality of live of the normal citizens, while those that have tried leftists "solutions" are either broken or breaking at this point.
And above all leftists defend that the collective know what is best for the individual when all examples in human history show that there is no such thing as "collective". There is only people ready to make use of class warfare, bigotry and naivete to gain power and live the lives of kings while the very people they pretend to care about die from hunger.
Right wing ideas are not the "Immutable Truth" even because this concept is utopic. They are wrong many many times, but they are right at least part of the time. Left wing ideas on the other hand, are all based on lies that come directly from the core of its doctrine and as such are the "Immutable Farce".
Leftists are above and beyond anything else a bunch of self-serving hypocrites.
Small collectives known as 'families.'
Get off our land, stranger. Fuck off, government dude.