Stéphane Blais, The Canadian Press »
At a time when the Trump administration is firing climate researchers, banning certain words from scientific articles, cutting funding for environmental research, threatening to withdraw financial support from universities, and deleting scientific reports from government websites, the McGill platform has taken on a different significance.
“The goal is to protect scientific data against threats from the U.S. government,” Serpa said.
The platform has been logging 39,000 weekly visits from academics and researchers. Scientific data that is on the chopping block south of the border is downloaded and uploaded to the platform.
