Comments on: Data leaks from particle hunters raise questions about controlling scientific secrecy https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/data-leaks-from-particle-hunters-raise-questions-about-controlling-scientific-secrecy/ Tue, 10 May 2011 20:14:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Blair Ivey https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/data-leaks-from-particle-hunters-raise-questions-about-controlling-scientific-secrecy/#comment-18081 Tue, 10 May 2011 20:14:51 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=8953#comment-18081 If a scientist is working for DoD or a similar agency, I can understand the need and desire to keep research findings secret: accept the King’s coin and all that. In the civilian sector I don’t really see this as problem. If the leakers are wrong, then they look foolish. If theyr’e right and leak good data, so what? Especially in the case of the LHD, it’s not like someone is going to use a similar machine to claim primacy.

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