Crushing of dissent

Dec 3, 2011
Bishop Hill in Climate: Sceptics

I was having a little Twitter tiff with Leo Hickman over the Guardian's attacks on the editor of the Spectator for publishing an article by Nils Axel Morner - an expert on sea level rises who has been fiercely critical of the IPCC's predictions. As I explained to Leo, I have no particular horse in this race - I know little about the science of sea levels - but I do have libertarian concerns over attempts to silence dissenting voices by attacking anyone who publishes them or other by other underhand methods. 

I listed a few examples for Leo's benefit:

• Attempts to have Pat Michaels' PhD rescinded.
• The smear campaign against Irene Meichsner
• Attempts to stop Sonia Boehmer-Christiansen using her university affiilation
• The campaigns against journal editors

To which Jonathan Jones added

•  the idea of complaining to his head of department because he made an FOI request.

Can readers here think of other examples of attempts to silence dissent?

Article originally appeared on (http://www.bishop-hill.net/).