Recently, uncovered emails from scientists at four major federal health agencies demonstrated how political controls are used to silence other scientists with opposing views. This is indicative of how, perhaps more than at any time in recent memory, researchers have been inhibited from challenging existing scientific paradigms. Science is a process of discovery which advances through critical reviews of the status quo. When it stagnates, society suffers.
One key event that only recently came to light occurred when, in 2015, a senior EPA manager — the head of the Radiation Protection Division — said he did not want to hear any counter perspectives to what’s known as the “linear no-threshold (LNT),” and that no review of the EPA’s “set-in-stone” policy would ever occur. Though the details might sound technical, the lesson is not.
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