Avian Flu Researcher Backs Down On Plan To Defy Publishing Ban 54
ananyo writes "Ron Fouchier, a researcher at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, whose work on the H5N1 avian flu virus has been embroiled in controversy, has now agreed to apply for an export permit to submit his work to the journal Science. Fouchier's paper is one of two reporting the creation of forms of the H5N1 virus capable of spreading between mammals. The other, by Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the University of Tokyo, and his colleagues, has already been submitted to Nature. Fouchier had said last week that he intended to defy the government and submit the work to Science without seeking the export permit that the Dutch government says is required."
In related news, renek noted that the U.S. NIH director supports publishing the papers in full.
Re:way to cave (Score:4, Informative)
Yeah, it's not like variations of the flu have killed [nap.edu] more people than all of our wars combined. It's not like we have a lack of organizations that believe [bbc.co.uk] in terror or widespread murders. Heck, we don't even have any environmental radicals that just might look at a world wide population reduction [utexas.edu] as the best possible [seashepherd.org] thing that could happen to the environment. Nope, no reason at all to be concerned about this....