A piece on Kuro5hin argues that the costs of witholding potentially dangerous scientific and technical information are greater than the costs of releasing them. I tend to agree. The collective wisdom of scientific journal editors reached a somewhat more cautious conclusion. However, a recent article in The Economist expresses doubts that this caution is having much effect in practice.
Posted by timo at May 10, 2003 02:25 PM | TrackBack