August 9, 2002
Bioterrorism Threat Raises a New Question for Journals; Trinity U. Restarts Its Press
PUBLISH AND PERISH? Afraid their research might inadvertently help terrorists, some scientists want to withhold key information from papers related to bioterrorism. Should journal editors publish those papers?
Ronald M. Atlas, president of the American Society for Microbiology, last month asked the National Academy of Sciences to consider that question. Mr. Atlas says the society's 11 journals have received "a handful" of submitted papers that lacked critical data or methods, along
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