Dangerous Bird-Flu Papers Should Be Partly Censored, Federal Panel Says - Research - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
"In an unprecedented move, a federal advisory panel recommended on Tuesday that university scientists and journals delete information from two unpublished papers that describe how the bird-flu virus could be engineered to infect mammals by passing it through the air. The panel worried that the changed virus—if the experiments were repeated in an unsecured laboratory or, worse, by a terrorist—could infect people and create a pandemic...."