ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE:
NIEHS Toxicologist Receives a 'Gag Order'
Dan Ferber
Last month, after clashing with his supervisor, James Huff of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences received what he calls a "gag order," a proposed agreement forbidding him from criticizing NIEHS in public. The memo itself was soon circulating in e-mails, and when outsiders learned about it last week, NIEHS apparently withdrew the order.