Word: restrictionism
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Moreover, education officials say, the issue of information restriction could be a major one in the up coming fall presidential campaign, since it has tremendous ramifications on economic growth, foreign policy, and the way the government formulates policy. They point out that the issues of government secrecy and information restriction...
Every Democratic candidate has come out in favor of more open government and fewer restriction on scientific information, in part as a result of the Iran-contra scandal. On the Republican side, however, Vice President George Bush has not separated himself from the Reagan Administration's policies. Nonetheless, analysts believe...
Experts say that a July 1985 report by Shattuck entitled "On the Free Flow of Information and Ideas", which attacked the Administration's efforts, inspired the higher education community to unite against the Administration's policies of information restriction.
So does Daniel Callahan, director of the Hastings Center research organization in New York. "Even if it will save lives," he says, "I think it's wrong." Applying the research, "would put us back into exactly the kind of reasoning that led to the abuses in the first place." But...
Between this rock and a hard place, British-born Physicist Freeman Dyson makes a spirited stand for optimism. Will our species end in fire or ice? Fire, the author concedes, would pose a difficult problem, but man might be able to overcome ice: "It is easier to keep warm on...