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Freedom of information laws are being misused to harass scientists and should be re-examined by the government, according to the president of the Royal Society.
Nobel laureate Sir Paul Nurse told the Guardian that some climate scientists were being targeted by organised campaigns of requests for data and other research materials, aimed at intimidating them and slowing down research. He said the behaviour was turning freedom of information laws into a way to intimidate some scientists.
Freedom of information laws are used to harass scientists, says Nobel laureate | Politics | The Guardian
Translation: "We need to crack down on freedom of information laws because the public is exposing the lies we've been feeding them for the last 30 years."