‘The Death of Evidence’ in Canada: Scientists’ Own Words - The Tyee

[Editor’s note: On July 10, at least 2,000 people, many of them scientists and their graduate students, marched through Ottawa to Parliament Hill to protest the Harper government’s cuts to scientific research and clamp-down on what government-funded scientific researchers can say in public -- a development organizers named “The Death of Evidence.” Some of the speakers’ remarks are reprinted here.] An ‘untimely death’ Katie Gibbs, PhD student in biology, University of Ottawa: Harper’s Humiliating Muzzle on Scientists READ MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS, EVENTS & MORE FROM TYEE AND SELECT PARTNERS Bard o…