- Did government funding help keep Flint’s water unsafe?
- When researchers rely on government funding to keep their jobs, it should come as no surprise that they aren’t eager to publish findings that reflect badly on those government agencies that fund them.
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- The Water Next Time: Professor Who Helped Expose Crisis in Flint Says Public Science Is Broken
- “The infrastructural problems go beyond the public utilities of certain American cities, he says. In an interview with The Chronicle, Mr. Edwards said that the systems built to support scientists do not reward moral courage and that the university pipeline contains toxins of its own—which, if ignored, will corrode public faith in science.” (Memeorandum thread)
