This sort of communication may be quite beneficial to the Client. However, the scientist must exercise good judgement, tact and discretion. The point that I am trying to make is simply this. The scientist must be allowed to function in the environment in which he is comfortable. This is a major problem with Research Organisations.
Educational institutions are by far the worst offenders.
One of the primary objectives of an educational institution is to disseminate information. An educational institution seeks to make information available for the purposes of scholarship. To achieve that objective, faculty members are rewarded by how prolifically they publish books, present papers, write articles and the like. It is not quite as strong today as it used to be. Nonetheless, professors are still under a lot of pressure to publish.