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U.S. Tighening Rules of Keeping Scientific Secrets

Posted by timothy on from the no-brain-scans-yet dept.

MobyTurbo writes: "In this article The New York Times (free registration, blah blah blah) reports that the Bush Administration is removing over 6,000 declassified documents from the public domain as part of the war on terrorism. Many scientists quoted in the article think that this will impead the development of science, especially the development of new vaccines."

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  1. Conspiracy nut : Creationists strike back! by Jeppe+Salvesen · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is really far-fetched, but could it be that some of the christian fundamentalists in the current administration wish to limit the effectiveness of non-military science?

    Before, they've established means for limiting insight into and influence over what they do.

    Now, they wish to further strangle information so that the people able to systematically pull their schemes apart will not be able to publish their work if they do so.

    Long live big brother!

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    Stop the brainwash

    1. Re:Conspiracy nut : Creationists strike back! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      Sweet. You're really intelligent... make your point by being religiously bigoted. Gee, you must be right.

  2. Re:Public domain by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A number of months ago I read that the GPO (General Printing Office) had ordered all of the authorized federal document repositories (mainly larger libraries) to destroy thousands of documents in light of Sept. 11th and their increased concern over homeland security.