The latest chilling impact on the freedom of information under the guise of terrorism came today, when, the National Institutes of Health announced that it is asking two major scientific journals to heavily censor certain articles over “terror” threats.
The articles were related to studies on the spread of H5N1 bird flu, and the research involved the possibility of the virus morphing to infect ferrets. Officials say ferrets have a similar response to the flu as humans do, and that the research could be used to create a “terrorist weapon.”
The articles were submitted by two separate universities, Wisconsin and Erasmus Medical in Rotterdam and were to be published in the Nature and Science journals. The Department of Health and Human Services agreed on the need to censor the articles.
Though there is no legal basis for the government to censor scientific journals or the compel them to withhold matters of scientific fact from the public, the reports suggest that the journals are both open to the idea of redacting parts of the articles if the government creates some alternative system to ensure that “legitimate” government-approved scientists can get access to the full version of the articles.
Science editor Dr. Bruce Alberts says that they are eager to withhold information in that event, and that he doesn’t consider the government telling them what they can and can’t publish “censorship” but rather “the scientific community trying to step out front and be responsible.”
hey i finally got my government clearances to learn how to make fire, so we can have that bbq!
just don't be flipping any burgers since im still waiting for my gravity and momentum licenses.
but hey better safe than sorry, if terrorist found out about gravity they could easily apply it to making weapons.
Silence, secrecy and sorrow. We should all be wearing black in mourning for "the way things used to be."
PS: The sun comes up in the east and sets in the west.
There's a terrorist under every shadow. All you have to do is to imagine it.
If one interpolates information here at antiwar.com about H5N1 bird flu with what Prison Planet dot com is saying it sure is not a pleasant picture which emerges… Articles with titles like ……." Will The Newly Created “Killer Bird Flu” Someday Be Used As A Bio-Terror Weapon To Reduce The Population?"…… and of course the far more repulsive prospect…of our wonderful government using some outbreak that THEY THEMSELVES generate as a pretext to to kill a million hapless citizens of some country half way round the world and has resources and opportunity for contractors like Halburton to make billions…some of which is sent to those politicians responsible for the war……
"Most people have no idea how close we are to a biological doomsday."**(FALSE FLAG ATTACK..??)
My god…….!!!!! This government attempt to censor scientific journals is the top story on the BBC this morning…WTF Are we being set up for another false flag event..?? Anyone wanna venture a guess who the next nominee will be….??? My guess starts with I and the second letter is R………
Unfortunately the feds have a lot of clout with these scientists and research labs, as they provide a lot of the funding. Once you accept Leviathan's money, they own you, as any public school system will attest.
could any of thse jiurnals be british based?because british are reknoiwn for tellign lies and fradulent stories when itis conveneint for them to benefit from the lies.
ofourcse the same publications will decry the censorship in other countries but willcall the same in own country-that is uk and usa-as responsible citizen of terrorist state.
OK. Resistance to the police state will not come from the official "scientific community." What a bunch of cowards! I guess it's still up to the people.
I wish there were just as much concern for separating science and state as church and state.
Everyone ready for the Ferret Flu epidemic? This is obviously a clear attempt by the US government to eliminate ferrets as domestic pets in the United States. Those happy, fuzzy, chirping balls of fur are a potential threat to the health of the entire population of the United states and they simply cannot be allowed to live, period. While I am sad to see ferrets placed on The Big List Of Terrorists ™ I am happy that our Dear Leader and his minions are looking out for us so carefully. If allowed to spread unchecked who knows how far the Ferret Menace(tm) would spread- yes, best to nip it in the bud now and eliminate even the possibility of exposure.
On the other hand, the Chinese have much more experience with the precursor, their own "Bird Flu" so naturally it's an easy- and obviously logical- step for them to begin a mass program of weaponizing ferrets to be distributed in American pet shops to spread their Ferret Flu(tm) among us while we remain blissfully unaware of the danger posed to us.
The FedGov is moving to control access to any sort of information that could be used by a potential resistance force of any kind. Consider the choking off of other kinds of information, such as the granting of patents to agricultural seeds so that agribusinesses have de facto monopolies of growing crops, and in close corollary the patenting of all DNA. Then there is the concerted campaign against independent farmers. It goes on and on in so many ways that a system is being created in which the only way for ordinary, unprivileged people to survive is to accept enslavement. The FedGov intends to enforce this slavery by choking off every basis of living outside its system.