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impala454
post Apr 9 2009, 01:43 PM
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So I was reading this article and came across some pretty scary stuff. It's from an interview of the president's science advisor.

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider...ll-intervi.html
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ScienceInsider: Were you troubled by the recent National Academies' report that one in six life scientists say they have self-censored some of their research because of security concerns, and is there anything you can do?
Holdren: That is a tough one. I think security concerns in the biological domain are real, and we cannot be cavalier about the propagation of findings that could be used by terrorists to harm us. But what the right approach to managing those risks is, is something we'll continue to struggle with. There was self-censoring within the nuclear physics community in the late '30s and '40s, when it became clear to scientists that there was potential for weapons of vast destructive power. And I think that was a good thing.


So... biological research with implications so profound these scientists feel the need to censor themselves? common cold + aids here we come...
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