Zweiter kanadischer Wissenschaftler behauptet, die Untersuchung einer Gehirnerkrankung sei eingestellt worden

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1. Do they want zombies?

   This is how you get zombies.

2. [New Brunswick’s economy is monopolized by the Irving family’s companies](https://mondediplo.com/2019/04/13canada), and is heavily centered around primary industries, like forestry and oil refining. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is being caused by pollution from one of their factories or refineries, and so the state government is trying to keep things quiet.

3. Not sure if blatant and pure evil corruption is getting more common or it’s just seems that way due to easily accessible information.

4. As a Canadian who works in healthcare policy, have found The Guardian’s reporting on this story incredibly odd. Don’t know that I’d go so far as to call it deceptive, but it’s creeping up awfully close to the line.

   Both of these supposedly “whistleblower-y” emails were nothing of the sort – in the absence of any further context, both read like the kinds of fairly standard jurisdictional/funding pissing match emails that inevitably circulate on any research project that isn’t being given absolute top priority in terms of timing/funding.

   That had nothing to do with whatever is or isn’t going on in ~~NS~~ NB (my bad, brain fart) (I don’t have the subject matter expertise to comment either way), but The Guardian continuing to present tiny snippets of communications as though they are evidence of some grand conspiracy is distinctly unhelpful.

   Edit: actually, on further consideration, there might actually be *more* of these kinds of emails flying around when an issue is top priority and/or is swimming in funding, only bc there’s a certain frenzy and competitiveness that sets in that fosters conflicts and clashes of egos.

5. My family’s super rare genetic mutation that causes early onset alzheimers in 30s and 40s is from that part of New Brunswick too

6. God damn Harper silencing scientists! Oh, wait…