Journals to Consider U.S. Security in Publishing

[whitak24]

oh, this is just great:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/16/science/16SECR.html


More than 20 leading scientific journals have made a pact to censor articles that they believe could compromise national security, regardless of their scientific merit.

The policy, announced yesterday at a scientific meeting in Denver, is one of the first concrete steps to emerge from a fierce debate over how to balance the ethic of openness that has long been the foundation of American science with calls from some government officials for greater secrecy after the anthrax attacks in 2001.

(the full article is really long, see the link for the rest of it).

so now we're going to mute scientific discussion on anything that could be a "security" risk.....

[mojo]

well, i'd have to say it's pretty arrogant of us to presume that we're the only ones that have the knowledge that goes in these journals. the end result would be the dumbing-down of a nation (our own) while others progress at the same rate as always.

knowledge is to be handed down and shared. it's not something that you hold onto like an heirloom.