WE all approve of openness, don’t we? Certainly the government is keen to
radically improve everyone’s ability to participate in public decision making.
But according to a recent Home Office consultation paper on Openness and
Animal Procedures, this kind of thinking is really based on “the assumption
that information should be released except where disclosure would not be in the
public interest”. I definitely agree with such openness when it comes to certain
matters.
There is something very wrong when scientists at Britain’s premier medical
research labs in north London must think twice about walking home on Wednesday
evenings because…
