![]() ![]() There was a lot that wasn’t known about the geological structures that lay below the city, and even in the best of times, the forecasting of aftershocks is an uncertain business.īut it was much more difficult than it should have been. These were not easy questions for scientists to answer. Cantabrians wanted to know why them? Why now? And what might happen next? The Canterbury and Christchurch earthquakes, for example, put New Zealand science on the spot. To whom is the first duty of a scientist in a crisis – to the politicians who fund them, the employer who pays them, or the wider public, desperate for information? In the course of writing my new book, Silencing Science, I have found that scientists’ duty to the public often comes last. The high public cost of muzzling scientists ![]() You can also see an interview with Prof Hendy on the Q + A show, and read an Q&A with the New Zealand Herald’s Jamie Morton.Īn excerpt of the article ( read in full here): Ahead of the launch of his new book Silencing Science, Prof Shaun Hendy has written an opinion article for the Dominion Post. ![]()
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