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Not that it is normally allowed to have underlings spilling data and opinions everywhere, but scientists are special. Conservatives with equal skill go into eng
by tropo 10y ago
Not that it is normally allowed to have underlings spilling data and opinions everywhere, but scientists are special. Conservatives with equal skill go into engineering because that is a more reliable path to a comfortable income. That leaves science with a bias, and that bias is now in conflict with the leadership.
Allowing people to have unfiltered communication might be nice, but it doesn't count for much when you already know they mostly agree with you.
In case I missed it, was the Obama administration fine with employees expressing opinions that conflicted with Obama's views? That would count for something. For example: coast guard employees endorsing off-shore oil drilling, health and human services employees taking pro-life positions, border patrol agents supporting a wall, military generals opposing non-traditional gender in the military, department of education employees opposing evolution, department of labor employees praising right-to-work laws...
- hackuser 10y ago> was the Obama administration fine with employees expressing opinions that conflicted with Obama's views? I saw it many times. For example, military officers did openly debate the gender issues before a decision was made (I don't know about after).
- tropo 10y agoThey were not allowed to support the A-10 or oppose the F-35.
- hackuser 10y agoCertainly there is always some of that around in any organization: Don't undermine your boss. Some bosses are more open or effective at that than others. The executive branch has well over a million employees, so everything you can imagine is probably going on somewhere all the time. In those cases, I think those situations were local to Pentagon programs; they were not instructions from the White House; they weren't blanket gag orders for whole departments on every issue.