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US Secrecy Efforts Hurting Scientific Research

Posted by michael on from the cause-and-effect dept.

EnlightenmentFan writes "The new, ultra-vague category "sensitive but unclassified" is being used to stop publication of research, according to this NY Times article (Registration required, but it's free). Bruce Alberts (President, National Academy of Sciences), William A. Wulf (President, National Academy of Engineering), and Harvey V. Fineberg (President, Institute of Medicine) made a joint statement after bureaucrats declared a major NAS report on bioterrorism unpublishable."

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  1. FUCK YOU TACO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
  2. wow by GoatPigSheep · · Score: 0, Troll

    the government stopping people from publishing things? Didn't the nazis do this?

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