Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Censoring science won't make us any safer
Do you like milk? To bad because apparently terrorist can now poison your milk with simple ingredients you can find in any science text book or magazine although there has never been any record biological attacks in this manner the U.S department of health and human services has taken every step possible to suppress scientific information that they deem to dangerous for the public. The author of this article Laura Donohue states that the government is not releasing impotent scientific information out into the public because they fear that terrorist will use the information against us. There have been many articles over the years about biological weapons and there dangers but they did not seem very important until 2001 when we had the anthrax scares and soon after 9/11.The government soon issued regulations about what scientist could and could not publish and required many scientist to succumb to security clearances within the government. The author of the article does not like all of these restrictions and states that because we are able to publish our scientific findings we are able to work together as a global community to help find cures for certain diseases. Were do we draw the line about what we can and cannot publish the scientific field is so large and there are so many disease that can kill us how do we know if censoring scientific studies is helping our hindering us. The author says that if someone was to use biological weapons the only way we could stop them would be to stay one step ahead of them which simply is not possible if we keep censoring scientific studies.
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Brad, in this post you've identified some of rhetorical strategies the author uses. Now you need to extend your thinking to include whether or not these strategies were effective. Did they work?
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