defamation /oss/taxonomy/term/3860/all en Censoring Science Communication by Screaming Defamation /oss/article/general-science/censoring-science-communication-screaming-defamation <p>Ryan Armstrong, Executive Director of the non-profit <a href="https://www.badsciencewatch.ca/"><em>Bad Science Watch</em></a>, tells me he never published his first article critical of pseudoscience for fear of a lawsuit. “My work also went a bit further than science debunking and into the domain of questionable business practices as well, which was the riskier material,” he adds. As he was finishing his article, he realized that the organization he was criticizing had sued someone else for leaking documents he was quoting from in his piece.</p> Fri, 10 May 2019 16:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 7750 at /oss