It doesn’t sound to me like any scientists are being “punished” for anything. It just sounds like they’re being required to make the work paid for with government grants available to the public that paid for those grants if the scientists want to continue receiving grant money. They’re just being forced to deliver the product that was paid for to the people who paid for it, or else stop receiving patronage from those customers. It’s not “punishment”, it’s how the most very basic capitalism works.
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