American Association for the Advancement of Secret Science?


Science magazine is published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) -- or is it the American Association for the Advancement of Secret Science?

In the November 6 issue of Science, reporter Jocelyn Kaiser writes about the recently enacted law mandating public access to scientific data collected courtesy of tax dollars. But Kaiser's article is decidedly negative on the new law:

Kaiser's article does a fine, one-sided job of scaring the public about the new law. It is sad that a journalist of perhaps the most prestigious science journal doesn't know that data sharing is a fundamental part of science.

Ask the editors at Science if they share Kaiser's views. If so, perhaps the American Association for the Advancement of Science should rethink its name.

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