A LEADING academic has warned Scottish democracy is under attack as he admonished the “authoritarian” UK Government amid a row over the mysterious disappearance of a blog post about independence. Dr Mike Galsworthy – a visiting researcher at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and co-founder of Scientists for EU – raised the alarm over the censuring of scientists and warned Scotland in particular is at risk of Westminster’s dirty tricks. The blog post, published on the London School of Economics (LSE) website, was co-authored by UK Government economic adviser Geoffrey Chapman, who works with the Department for International Trade. The analysis concluded that there are no reasons to suggest an independent Scotland “would not succeed economically”.