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

[John Grehan]

I mentioned earlier that I would provide the R Soc Panel document to anyone
who asks (and will send to Peter next). Point is that the Society set up
the panel to 'evaluate' a complaint. The Panel denied any conflict with the
Society's ethics and recommended no further action. That is the Society
conclusion. Thus the Society, through its Panel, has effectively endorsed
calls for suppression and censorship as being compatible with the Society's
ethics policy.

John Grehan

On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 6:18 PM Peter A Rauch <peterar at berkeley.edu> wrote:

> 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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