Submitted by Peter Johnston on January 24, 2025 - 10:54am
Dr, Katherine Hayhoe, a Canadian climate scientist who is Global Chief Scientist of Nature United and Distinguished Professor at Texas Tech University, recently published, with others, a paper "Challenging the neutrality myth in climate science and activism" in Nature Climate Science. It is available for download at https://www.nature.com/articles/s44168-024-00171-9
The word "censorship" gets tossed around a fair bit.
Given how emotionally charged this term is, and how frequently it gets used to stifle speech rather than protect it, I thought it'd be worth unpacking a bit.
I decided to do a bit of my own research about the definition of genocide and whether or not the use of this term is correct in reference to historical and present day acts towards Indigenous First Peoples.