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Common Dreams reports
Facing a presidential administration committed to waging war on Science, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) this week launched a website to help scientists blow the whistle on government interference in their work.
[...] The website encourages scientists employed by state and federal agencies to share "memos, emails, directives, or any other documents;" to send "datasets or other information that has been altered or removed from public view;" and adds: "You can also describe anything that has been communicated orally or even rumors that you have heard, and we will investigate."
The UCS urges potential whistleblowers to use encrypted communications, anonymous email, and the postal service to send materials, and encourages following the Electronic Frontier Foundation's advice for protecting privacy.
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday February 19 2017, @11:37PM
To make that truly meaningful will require that all election campaigns for public office be publicly funded.
That already locks out third parties who haven't been able to muster the thresholds required to get public funding.
This will require an amendment to the Constitution. Anyone who isn't working on that is part of the problem.
Because you ignore how public funding already works to enforce the two party state.
It will also require that the courts declare the Commission on Presidential Debates, an operation which excludes all but the Reds and Blues, to be an anti-competitive racket and break it up.
You merely see the future of your policy here.