Posted on 02/25/2023 6:48:04 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Buried in the "Framework for Federal Scientific Integrity Policy and Practice" released by the White House in January is language banning scientists from speaking without prior approval, and even then only about certain topics.
That has critics, and First Amendment advocates concerned.
"This policy is problematic in many ways," said former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spokesman Glen Nowak. "This could become a major impediment to being able to communicate science, which is not just about findings but what those findings suggest and what they mean."
The rule, which is listed under a subhead reading "Ensuring the Free Flow of Scientific Information," outlines under what circumstances scientists can speak.
“[Agency] scientists shall refrain from making or publishing statements that could be construed as being judgments of, or recommendations on, [an agency] or any other federal government policy, unless they have secured appropriate prior approval to do so," it reads. "Such communications shall remain within the bounds of their scientific or technological findings, unless specifically otherwise authorized.”
Nowak, now a University of Georgia professor, adds that transparency among government scientists is especially important because their salaries are paid for with taxpayer dollars. He argues that such a policy has no discernible upside but many significant downsides.
He's not alone. The nonprofit organization Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility released a letter outlining a host of concerns the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy raises.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
The march to 1984 goes unabated from Soros to Obama to Rice to the Dems.
Yoo vill shpeek ONLY what Der Furer has APPROVED!
First thing goes is Freedom
Shaddap and take your seven clot shots.
Jao can go gag himself with a spoon.
“Science” is just “Political Science” these days.
The Soviet Union has “Lysenkoism”. That’s about where we are now.
My favorite maxim is “The only way to make a bad idea seem like a good idea is to silence the good idea that shows just how bad the bad idea really is” L.Star
Who pays for it? Why can’t the people who pay for it know what they are paying for? Who’s the boss?
If you cannot question the science, it’s not science
85% of Americans obeyed without question and took the vax. All any reasonable. person was saying. is... RNA respiratory viruses are not good Jax candidates and it will not stop the virus. We were saying wait and see..
However.. They took over the country AND got mail in ballots under a Republican president.
What democrat or Totalitarian could ask for more than having the entire population handed to them on a silver platter.
They are just getting warmed up.
Holocaust level obedience without question.
EVERYTHING ABOUT BIDEN ‘GAGS’ us all
Government has completely corrupted science
When you mix politics with science, you get politics. It’s puzzling why a person would go through all of the training to learn a scientific discipline just to end up dispensing government propaganda. Or study law, engineering or medicine for that matter. In a totalitarian society, survival depends on mastering the political agenda, and nothing else. It leaves little room for production, creativity or innovation. That explains a lot.
Then Biden Cartel is COMMUNIST..
Remember in the book 1984, Winston’s friend is involved writing the Newspeak language, when it occurs to Winston that his friend is far too intelligent and creative, and will eventually be liquidated for it. Successful bureaucrats are basically brain dead.
If it doesn’t fit with the Global Order it gets a ‘gag policy’
Yep.
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