{"id":31354,"date":"2011-12-21T12:42:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T12:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=31354"},"modified":"2011-12-21T12:42:20","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T12:42:20","slug":"us-govermnent-asks-scientific-journals-to-censor-bird-flu-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=31354","title":{"rendered":"US: Govermnent asks scientific journals to censor bird flu studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"Index on Censorship : USA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/USA\" target=\"_blank\">US Governmen<\/a>t has asked two scientific journals <a title=\"Guardian : US asks scientific journals to censor bird flu studies\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/dec\/21\/bird-flu-science-journals-us-censor\" target=\"_blank\">to censor data <\/a>on bird flu.\u00a0Nature and Science were asked by the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity to publish redacted\u00a0versions of studies by two research groups that suggests the H5N1 avian flu could spread <a title=\"Reuters: U.S. asks journals to censor bird flu studies\" href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/12\/20\/us-birdflu-usa-censorship-idUKTRE7BJ1O720111220\" target=\"_blank\">quickly among humans<\/a>. The laboratory-made version of\u00a0bird flu covered in the data could easily jump between ferrets &#8212; a sign a mutated form of the virus could spread among humans.\u00a0The journals are objecting to the request,\u00a0saying it would restrict access to information that might advance the cause of public health.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read more about censorship and science in <a title=\"Index on Censorship : Dark Matter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/darkmatter\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Dark Matter,&#8221;<\/a> the latest issue of Index on Censorship magazine. You can also read the entire issue for free (until 22 December) on our <a title=\"Facebook : Index on Censorship\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/IndexOnCensorship\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Government has asked two scientific journals to censor data on bird flu.\u00a0Nature and Science were asked by the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity to publish redacted\u00a0versions of studies by two research groups that suggests the H5N1 avian flu could spread quickly among humans. The laboratory-made version of\u00a0bird flu covered in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[4117,4118,1209,198,4024],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31354"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31375,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31354\/revisions\/31375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}