EVEN with war looming, there can be few more delicate academic issues than whether certain results should be withheld from publication. Â鶹´«Ã½’s recent news item “Recipes for bioterror” (18 January, p 10), focused on the dangers of allowing potentially dangerous biotech research to fall into terrorists’ hands. I asked Lord Sainsbury, the science minister, for his comments.
Sainsbury replied that there are controls on the publication of some types of highly sensitive information. However, in the present circumstances some mainstream research might well prove useful to terrorists. He agreed that it is a difficult and sensitive issue, not least…
