[IP] SCIENCE AND SECRECY

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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SECRECY NEWS
from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2002, Issue No. 108
October 29, 2002


**    CHANGING CHARACTERISTICS OF AMERICAN SPIES ANALYZED
**    DIA, STATE DEPT ANSWER WORLDWIDE THREAT QUESTIONS
**    SCIENCE AND SECRECY
**    CIA ON CAMPUS


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SCIENCE AND SECRECY

The diverse new national security concerns confronting scientists,
particularly microbiologists, are examined by Ronald M. Atlas,
president of the American Society for Microbiology, in an essay in
the latest edition of Science Magazine:

"Should scientists be constrained regarding questions they ask and
should more research be classified?  Should journals reject papers
containing potentially sensitive information?  Should secrecy
clearances be required for attendees at biodefense research meetings?
Should there be mandatory government review before publishing
information, even from unclassified studies and those not funded by
government?  Finally, perhaps the most difficult questions of all,
exactly what is sensitive information, and who is empowered to decide
what is potentially dangerous?"

See "National Security and the Biological Research Community" in
Science, 25 October 2002, pp. 753-4 or online here (subscribers
only):

   http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/298/5594/753

Related issues are also discussed in "New Antiterrorism Tenets Trouble
Scientists," by Peg Brickley in The Scientist, October 28:

   http://www.the-scientist.com/yr2002/oct/prof_021028.html
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