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Science Panel Recommends Censoring Bird Flu Papers

Posted by Soulskill on from the otherwise-the-terrrrrists-win dept.

Morty writes "The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) has recommended that details of two research papers involving Avian Flu not be published because of security concerns. At least one of the research groups says that their work should be logically reproducible. The NSABB's censorship recommendations do not (currently) have the force of law, but Science and Nature voluntarily delayed publication."

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  1. Wrong way around by gtch · · Score: 5, Funny

    If they don't want anyone to read the papers, they should print off millions of copies with an official-looking government cover, then send them out all over the country with big letters on the envelope: "Important Information from Your Government".

    That guarantees no-one will read it.

    1. Re:Wrong way around by chromas · · Score: 5, Funny

      Or staple together said millions of copies and submit them to the House/Senate as a bill.

    2. Re:Wrong way around by sakdoctor · · Score: 5, Funny

      Nobody would read it, and it would pass.

  2. Re:Quick by RDW · · Score: 4, Funny

    Call Dustin Hoffman and tell him Gary Sinese is immune

    It's the supporting cast you have to worry about. From the Washington Post article:

    "Fears of bad actors spreading a mutant, highly transmissible virus suffuse the three-page note published by the board."

  3. I think it's no coincidence by erroneus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just look at the fact that the bird flu story is directly after then Angry Birds story. Maybe it's just the fact that I'm waking up at 3am and later about 5-something AM, but I think there's more than just a casual connection here. Look at the facts:

    1. Both about birds.
    2. Both about people unable to control themselves.
    3. One is about a bird virus, the other about birds going viral.

    There is something at play here... not sure what it is just yet...

    1. Re:I think it's no coincidence by a_hanso · · Score: 4, Funny

      Late stage angry bird flu will cause the sufferer to repeatedly fling himself at any loose assemblage of bricks, wood or stone in the vicinity.

    2. Re:I think it's no coincidence by goldaryn · · Score: 4, Funny

      The green sickly pigs in Angry Birds were inspired by the Swine Flu epidemic

      I like to imagine that the back-story is: the birds are angry because they are in biological warfare with their piggy enemies. Avian flu... swine flu...