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The War on Science

Muzzled Scientists and Wilful Blindness in Stephen Harper's Canada
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Oct 10, 2013
If a documentary of this book were to be made it would probably be this-watch CBC FIFTH ESTATE - "The Silence of the Labs" Friday Jan 10. 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