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In the US, when James Hanson was screaming that he was being muzzled, NOBODY from the Bush administration was muzzling him. He was engaged in a political act (arguably a violation of the Hatch act that is supposed to block federal government employees from tainting their taxpayer-funded work with politics) of pretending Bush was "anti-science" (which by happy accident helped Al Gore (One of whose organizations had awarded Hanson some funding) in his efforts to unseat Bush). At the time, the policy Hanson claimed was muzzling him was a policy that required government scientists to alert their supervisors BEFORE holding press events and to provide those supervisors with a "heads-up" as to the content. (NO content was being blocked, this was just the usual case of insecure management level people hating being caught flat-footed by press questions about what some underling has said... and being seen on-camera with nothing to say and no information)
Anonymous (why?) post on slashdot
Nearly every scientist that I know (IAAS) has a project on the side either studying the climate or cancer (preferably child cancer); this is what they must do in order to support their main research, since it probably has no funding.
Another Anonymous (why?) post on slashdot
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