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U.S. Asks Journals to Censor Flu Study

BIOTERRORISM

Fear that terrorists will be able to replicate findings.

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This is a new twist on the peer review process. The U.S. government has asked the journals Science and Nature not to publish crucial details of biomedical experiments that created an extremely transmissible form of bird flu.

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