Cohen: Here's why Payette was right to speak out

Oh, to be Governor General of Canada, the world’s most earnest country. Oh, to be Governor General encumbered with an education in mathematics, engineering and aeronautics. Oh, to be Governor General celebrating science with a refreshing if artless honesty.
This is what it is to be Julie Payette. Address a science conference, as a scientist, and defend science. Question creationism and a little astrology, too. Dare, if you may, to doubt that a “sugar pill” can cure cancer.
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