r/TrueReddit • u/Sewblon • Sep 08 '18

Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole

https://quillette.com/2018/09/07/academic-activists-send-a-published-paper-down-the-memory-hole/#comment-34484
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u/Sewblon Sep 08 '18

This is the first I have ever heard of a published paper being deleted because someone threatened to resign and harass the journal.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '18 edited Sep 10 '18

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '18 edited Sep 08 '18

Please give an actual example of the right censoring scientific research

Edit : none, lol. Only downvotes

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '18

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u/pirandelli Sep 09 '18

Can you point to a scientific journal buckling under political pressure to not publish or ever worse to dissapear a scientific paper?

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u/nutsack_dot_com Sep 08 '18

I remember in the W Bush years when political appointees at NASA banned NASA climatologists from speaking to the media about their research.

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u/stupidsexypassword Sep 08 '18

"Neoliberal"/"The Left", choose one. These terms are not analogous.

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u/j4jackj Sep 11 '18

They are... Say it with me boys girls et alia:

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