Australia's ecologists say they face gags on getting their information into the public domain, leading to poor policy outcomes.
Australia's ecologists say they face gags on getting their information into the public domain, potentially leading to poor policy outcomes for issues ranging from threatened species to tackling climate change.
Such modifications included substantive changes to a text or story "that downplays, masks, or misleads about environmental impacts", the paper found. “But even more alarmingly scientists are also being prohibited from sharing their research findings with their colleagues and policymakers via journal papers, conference articles and technical memos.”The findings were "seriously concerning", he said, because it meant policymakers were making decisions on big environmental issues like threatened species, land clearing, logging and climate change without seeing all the information available.
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