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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. Public domain by sydb · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How can you remove stuff from the public domain? Does no-one have any copies? If not, it was probably useless information anyway.

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