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March 01, 2004

Weekly Bush Administration Science Rant

A handful of science journals are now refusing to publish papers by scientists from Cuba, Iran, Libya, and Sudan. The decision is due to a Treasury Department ruling which says that to do so would violate US embargos against those countries.

The thing is, there's probably no legal reason to do so. Some journals are planning to cite the first amendment in defense of their right to publish whatever findings they deem appropriate, regardless of the researchers' country of origin. Besides the constitutional issue, there is the fact that the embargos are trade embargos. Under the letter of the law, certain intellectual property ("information and informational materials") is exempt from the restrictions.

Furthermore, there's really no practical reason to do so. If Iraninan scientists want to publish their state-funded research in American journals, why not let them? It's not like American scientists are clamoring to publish their nuclear science research in Iranian journals ('cause that would be illegal).

So really, this is just one more way in which the Bush administration is artificially limiting scientific progress. Someone really ought to tell John Snow that Cuba really doesn't have the money to do stem cell research that could infect US scientific publications. Fortunately (for everyone who's not a theocrat), South Korea does. Maybe we should have an embargo against them, too.

"Publishers split over response to US trade embargo ruling" (Nature)

Posted by matt at March 1, 2004 01:19 PM

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