Jeff Ruch was fresh out of law school when he learned what can happen if you cross a powerful politician. After writing a report that angered one of his bosses at the California state legislature, Ruch was sacked. Two decades later he created his own organisation to protect government whistle-blowers, many of them scientists. Ruch told Jim Giles about holding George W. Bush’s administration to account, and why a new president may not make scientists safer.
What happened in California?
I was writing a report on a proposed prison. It was on a contaminated site and they weren’t going to…
