https://freerepublic.com/tag/liberalsinscience/ en-us Sun, 20 Mar 2016 14:09:35 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3411437/posts The group has been a fierce advocate for transparency, regularly championing investigations that rely on public documents to hold government officials accountable. But over the past year, the Union of Concerned Scientists, a Cambridge-based advocacy group that represents thousands of scientists around the country, has campaigned to limit the scrutiny of scientists who work for public universities and agencies through public records requests. These scientists, the group says, are increasingly being harassed by ideological foes who seek to unearth documents that would derail or sully their work with evidence of bias. “We don’t want to work in an environment where... https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3411437/posts#comment Sun, 20 Mar 2016 14:09:35 GMT