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"I was just following the orders of my superiors" or charter as in this case.
However you want to interpret it, whether Government, Corporate, Military right down to your local club, being effectively censored and not being able to voice an opinion on matters you do not agree with, you question or you see as out and out nonsense has got a lot of good people into hotwater over the years because they didn't speak out. Simply because they were too scared to speak their mind for fear of loss of job/income, status, demotion, ridicule, reprisal (or worse). A government body like the CSIRO should be open and transparent, if even one scientist has concerns then he should be free to speak his mind to whoever wants to listen, it is our taxes that allow CSIRO to do their research so I would expect all views of their scientists would be available. Surely the CSIRO have a disclaimer that says individual views and opinions do not necessarily represent the views of the CSIRO, blimey even your local Astro club has that.
This is government agendas interfering with science, again.
PeterM.
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