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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Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) has recommended that details of two research papers involving Avian Flu not be published because of security concerns.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. Re:Incorrect. by GauteL · · Score: -1, Redundant

    there was another thread about this same subject a few weeks ago, and there was no "new strain of the virus", just a virus sharing one of the proteins that help the virii attach to cells

    while we have lots of resistant bacterias living in our hospitals (and by our mean "all the hospitals in the world"), we're getting hype over this ... not sure any more it's hysterics or histrionics ... maybe Netherlands needs pretexts to wipe out chicken farms somewhere

    I'm not sure I understand your point here. In the link you posted yourself, there is nothing about this being hysterics. On the contrary it seems to confirm the parent posters argument that this is research so dangerous it shouldn't have been performed, let alone published. Flu is very different from the resistant bacteria that bring up.