Abstract

RUIZ-LOYOLA, Benjamín. Public health, globalization and scientific censorship. TIP [online]. 2012, vol.15, n.1, pp.37-48. ISSN 1405-888X.

Diseases are more widespread due to globalization. The 2009 Flu pandemic is a striking example. Diseases as SARS or avian flu could cause as many casualties as the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. That's why doing research to have a deep understanding of how microorganisms such as viruses or bacteria, or pathogens in general, are transmitted and conformed is essential to public health. Since by late 2011, a couple of would be papers about avian flu were recommended to be censored by Science and Nature editors, here we debate about the possible rightness of this censorship, along with a series of past activities that show a double standard of the censorship requesters.

Keywords : Censorship; flu; pandemia; papers; public health.

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