[MCN] Science Editorial, January 10, 2020 : "Scientists must speak up."

[Lance Olsen]

Excerpt : Scientists must speak up. In June 2019, Patrick Gonzalez, the principal climate change scientist of the U.S. National Park Service, testified to Congress on the risks of climate change even after he was sent a cease-and-desist letter by the administration (which later agreed that he was free to testify as a private citizen). That's the kind of gumption that deserves the attention of the greater scientific community. There are many more examples of folks leading federal agencies and working on science throughout the government. When their roles in promoting science to support decision-making are diminished, the scientific community needs to raise its voice in loud objection.

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6474/125 <https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6474/125>

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“The individual scientist can survive for a long time by lying low in the valley of specialized intellectual interest .
... We in science must get up and face the wind, confront the future.” 

William Bevan, “The Sound of the Wind That’s Blowing.” American Psychologist. July 1976

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