Who Owns the Field Notes
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Who Owns the Field Notes
What is this about?
A federal agency threatened to withhold a researcher's salary unless he turned over his notes he had written on the proposed topographic changes in an indigenous area in the far north of America. The researcher's report noted that the changes would radically change the culture of the area and this change could not be mitigated. The federal agency funding him wanted him to turn over the notes so they could get a second opinion.
