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Fortunately the environment here in the U.S. has yet to turn so authoritarian and hostile to inconvenient data, as the article describes. The piece - which posted Friday - is online, but if you don't subscribe to the Chronicle, you'll be prompted to do so. [Update: 6/21/2011: It's now freely available.]
I've been a foreign correspondent of the Chronicle for twenty-one years now. My last piece for the paper was on alleged discrimination in Canada against graduates of that country's own doctoral programs.
The last time a climate scientist was apparently killed for his beliefs may have been the 1985 dissapearance of Vladimir Alexandrov, in Madrid, where he was trundled into a Soviet embassy van after showing insufficient scientific enthusiasm for computer models of 'nuclear winter ' at a 'nuclear freeze' rally in Cordoba.
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