[Taxacom] NZ Royal Society fails to object to suppression and censorship of science

[Peter A Rauch]

John pointed to the published paper by Waters et al., Syst. Biol., as the
stimulus for his comments, and states [*emphasis* mine]:

"... now the Royal Society Te Apārangi (New Zealand) has trashed its slogan
"We support New Zealanders to explore, discover and share knowledge" *by
providing endorsement of suppression and censorship by their members
through a Panel that concluded that there was nothing wrong for their
members to do this*.

I'm still missing the point he apparently wants to make (about the RSTA's
Panel) because I don't know (John didn't provide?) what that Panel actually
wrote ("concluded"), nor what the RSTA wrote (to "endorse" the Panel's
"conclusions").

Peter R


On Sun, Aug 8, 2021 at 3:06 PM John Grehan via Taxacom <
taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:

> Some of you may recall that some years ago several researchers published a
> paper in Systematic Biology in which they called for the suppression and
> censorship of a research program they opposed. That they felt it was OK for
> scientists to openly admit to such practices is shocking enough, but now
> the Royal Society Te Apārangi (New Zealand) has trashed its slogan "We
> support New Zealanders to explore, discover and share knowledge" by
> providing endorsement of suppression and censorship by their members
> through a Panel that concluded that there was nothing wrong for their
> members to do this. Perhaps others on Taxacome feel the same way,  that it
> is OK  for scientists to actively engage in suppression. To me it is
> horrifying, but perhaps I am in an ethical minority. Boggles the mind.
>
> John Grehan
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