Surely the names of the Principal Investigators are public record? Did the reporter contact the PI in canada and get redirected to a press office, or did the reporter just ask the wrong person? It’s possible that all the intellectual work is done in the USA and that the Canadians are just vassals in the project.
- Which Canadian scientists were directly involved in designing the study?
- Did the reporter try to contact those scientists, or did he contact the funding body?
- Are Canadians actually involved in the science, or is Canada just providing logistical and technical support?
