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By Terry Project Podcast
The Terry Project Podcast explores important global issues like climate change, education, and global finance through a unique mixture of storytelling, discussion, and debate. For more information go to terry.ubc.ca. Episode producers: Sam Fenn, Gordon Katic, and Chirag Mahajan
STUDENTS TRY TO SPEAK TO A FEDERAL SCIENTIST: THEY FAIL. ON THE MUZZLING OF CANADIAN SCIENCE.
What if there was a non-political research project that involved a collaboration between NASA scientists and Environment Canada scientists? How easy would it be for a journalist to talk to the scientists involved? It turns out it would take only 15 minutes for something to be arranged with NASA. With Environment Canada, however, it would take the activities of 11 media relations people, sending over 50 pages of internal emails, before a list of irrelevant information was finally sent back – all of this long after the deadline had passed. This is what happened to journalist Tom Spears in April 2012.…