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New bird flu details too dangerous to publish? (KSAT)

A genetically altered strain of the H5N1 avian flu virus is at the center of a
controversial request to keep the details of its creation under wraps.
Scientists in Wisconsin and the Netherlands each created a strain of the
influenza virus that is both highly lethal and easily transmitted between
ferrets. Ferrets are the animals that most closely mimic the human response to
the flu. The Dutch paper, on the transmissibility of H5N1, was to be published
in the journal Science and the University of Wisconsin study was to be
published in the journal Nature. But the National Science Advisory Board for
Biosecurity (NSABB), an independent committee that advises the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services and other federal agencies on biosecurity matters
reviewed the manuscripts and expressed concern about the release of some of
the data. "We did not think that these papers should be published in the form
that we saw them and that the methods and results should be removed to prevent
someone else from directly replicating their experiments," Dr. Paul Keim, a
microbiologist and chair of NSABB said. "The avian flu is one of the scariest
pathogens that is on ...

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Cutting people's benefits and little or no prospect of them getting a job - "a crusade against poverty"?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/6261030/Conservatives-on-crusade-to-help-poorest-in-society-Michael-Gove-says.html

Are they really on a crusade against poverty, or is this just more spin?

Isn't this somewhat similar to Labour's attacks on benefits claimants, and fiddling of unemployment figures?

How can you reduce the gap between rich and poor if you make poor people even more worse off?

Please explain - my head is still spinning and for some reason my same question was deleted earlier.
shevek - excellent answer. Couldn't have put it any better myself. : )

It is the same old Thatcherite "crusade" to turn us all into little capitalist entrepreneurs while the big capitalist sharks clean up by not paying their taxes and looting the public purse - yet again.

The need for a new left wing working class party is plain. Between the major three political parties the choice is plain - Tweedledum, Tweedledee and Ob La Di Ob La Da. In other words no choice at all.

Cameron's "compassionate Conservatism" reveals itself to be yet another attempt to impose a discredited ideology and set of policies on the working classes, and make the ordinary people pay for yet another crisis their incompetence as professional politicians has helped to create.

In Cameron's "compassionate Conservative" Britain do not be old, poor, weak, ill or unemployed. We need a real socialist alternative now:

http://www.cnwp.org.uk/index.htm

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