| Ransom Myers: A legend in marine biology finally silenced [The Island of Doubt] |
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Written by 2000l, March 31st, 2007
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 Ransom Myers had a habit of telling people what they didn’t want to hear. In the 1990s, his employers in the Canadian government didn’t like it when he told them overfishing was to blame for the collapse of the northern cod stocks. Three years ago it was the U.S. federal government, in a classic example of its anti-science bias, that removed his recommendations on the importance of habitat protection from a report on west coast salmon stocks. But he kept telling it like it is. Until a brain tumor finally got the best of him on March 27.
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