Experts have delayed a result on whether controversial
research into the H5N1 bird flu virus should be unconfined. In last year the
controversy is centered on two research papers - one of which was submitted to
Science, the other to another leading journal, nature. Several pointed out that
the scientists had given presentations about their work at conferences and the
facts were previously widely circulated, so redaction would have small reason.
The request caused outcry among some scientists who believed
that it was an infringement of academic freedom. The Geneva meeting of 22
scientists and journal representatives agreed that publishing only parts of the
research would not be helpful, because they would not give the full context of
a complete paper.
No comments:
Post a Comment