Australia’s chief scientist has slammed Donald Trump’s attempt to censor environmental data, saying the US president’s behaviour was comparable to the manipulation of science by the Soviet Union. Trump bans agencies from 'providing updates on social media or to reporters' Read more“It defies logic. Finkel compared the Trump administration’s attempt to censor science to the behaviour of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. “Stalin loved Lysenko’s conflation of science and Soviet philosophy and used his limitless power to ensure that Lysenko’s unscientific ideas prevailed. Finkel was appointed chief scientist by Malcolm Turnbull, replacing former chief scientist Prof Ian Chubb in December.

Source: The Guardian February 06, 2017 08:49 UTC