Why Canada is the laughing stock of the world.

This is old news, but I was too busy to comment because in mid-February I was in too much pain and discomfort post-surgery to be sitting in front of the computer, but I think more people need to be made aware of this.

Nature Article Slamming Tories and their Science Policies

CBC Article about the Nature Article

In February, Stephen Harper's Conservative Party was slammed by the most prestigious scientific publication in the world, Nature, for destroying scientific progress in Canada. Having worked not only in a University lab but also a Federal Government Lab over the past 2.5 years, I have noticed funding challenges in either settings, more so in the University labs. Immediately after the Tory government came into power in 2006, research funding was frozen and the government run lab I was working at couldn't even afford to buy latex gloves, and as a result some work was stalled for more than a month until they let us buy supplies again.

Not only did Harper close and remove the office of the national science adviser, he also doesn't believe the science behind Global Warming and doesn't believe the scientific evidence supporting InSite. It was despicable that the Tory government tried to sabotage efforts to create new policies on Global Warming and at the Global Warming policy meetings late last year in Bali when countries tried to come up with a successor to Kyoto, Canada was again at the center of attention for trying to stall efforts. At this point, I guess the scientific community in Canada took offense because professors and scientific organizations started distributing emails to rally against this and kudos that they caught Nature's attention. How one government can make science their enemy when Canadian scientists have done so much in the past and could do so much more in the future is disgusting and extremely stupid. Shame on you.