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Editor, Senior Moderator
By HOWARD MARKEL
Published: February 1, 2012
IN December, the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity made an unprecedented request: it asked the editors of the journals Nature and Science not to publish certain details in two papers describing experiments in which scientists created a highly transmissible form of the deadly H5N1 influenza virus in ferrets. The board?s primary concern was that terrorists might use the data to weaponize influenza.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/opinion/censorship-hinders-influenza-research.html?_r=1
Published: February 1, 2012
IN December, the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity made an unprecedented request: it asked the editors of the journals Nature and Science not to publish certain details in two papers describing experiments in which scientists created a highly transmissible form of the deadly H5N1 influenza virus in ferrets. The board?s primary concern was that terrorists might use the data to weaponize influenza.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/opinion/censorship-hinders-influenza-research.html?_r=1