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Aborting OA: government interference in science

Sarah Lai Stirland reports on Wired’s Threat Level blog that a bibliographic database run by Johns Hopkins University has blocked all searches related to abortion — because the project receives funding from a U.S. federal agency which prohibits grantees from promoting the practice.
In a sense, this tension between scientific independence and state power (especially [...]

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