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[chris gadsden]

 The trailer below is advertising a program on CBC Jan 10 so please circulate widely so people don’t miss the message.

 


Watch The Fifth Estate on January 10th for an investigative report by Linden McIntyre on the troubling, shameful and 1984-ish firing and retiring of scientists and the closing of scientific labs in Canada by the current, despicable federal government. Some details and a link to the promo below.
Please forward widely to get as much attention as possible for this issue.
The Silence of the Labs
In the past few years, the federal government has cut funding to more than 76 world renowned research institutes and hundreds of programs. The Harper government has dismissed more than 2,000 scientists and researchers. It has cut programs that monitored smoke emissions, food inspections, oil spills, water quality and climate change. Now scientists have become unlikely radicals, denouncing what they call is a politically-driven war on knowledge. In Silence of the Labs, Linden MacIntyre tells the story of scientists - and what is at stake for Canadians - from Nova Scotia to the B.C. Pacific Coast to the far Arctic Circle.
See: http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/episodes/2013-2014/the-silence-of-the-labs

[VAGAbond]

There used to be an American politician on the right called William Proxmire who annually gave out a 'Golden Fleece Award' for research he considered a waste of public funds.    Mostly the recipients were involved in basic research.  One year a recipient was a scientist who has been fishing around in the Yellowstone hot springs looking for bacteria that survived at high temperature.   To his surprise he found some and opened a complete new chapter on research into bacteria living in extreme environments, notwithstanding Proxmire's attention.  Further, an enzyme from his first find has enabled the present rapid DNA characterization used in everything from forensic investigations to environmental research.   Mr. Proxmire's narrow view of useful fundamental investigation is still held by the present government who can't see value in something for which you cannot see a direct path to commercial sales and hate anything standing in the way.  Hence the book buring.  Well, they say they didn't actual burn the books, just put them in dumpsters.

[skaha]

--BC government also happy to nuke BC Forest Research Program.