Status of Cryptography Research in implementation of the EUCD

[Ken Brown]

But there was no suppression of research as far as I remember? It was
still published in journals and even mentioned in textbooks as a
minority view?  

So the complaint in this case is surely that business doesn't go out of
its way to educate and inform, but publicises things that it thinks will
make money, and not anything to do with the law or the government
actively suppressing information?

Ken

Casper Dik wrote:
> 
> >Adrian Midgley wrote:
> >
> >> Wakefield and MMR is diffciult.  Caveat Emptor I'd say.  Bolsin and Bristol,
> >> teh helicobactr story and so on are good illustrations that preventing
> >> publication in case it upsets the desired order of things is not a good
> >> strategy.
> >>
> >> Part of the massive unconvincingness of the Chief Medical Officer arises from
> >> that, that it is a condition of his employment that he echoes the government
> >> line, personally I think his position on this is such that he should have
> >> resigned some months ago, but I doubt it is really his fault what he has to
> >> say and do while he keeps the job.
> >
> >
> >What was the story about /Heliobacter/ ?
> 
> "Heliobacter pylori" was isolated around 10 years ago from stomach ulcers;
> for a long time, the established medical wisdom of "ulcers are caused by
> stress, fatigue, etc" prevailed even though there was massive evidence,
> including a researcher who infected himself, that Heliobacter was the
> actual culprit.
> 
> Of course, vested pharmaceutical interests played an important role:
> you can get rid of the bug with a $10 combination treatment of
> standard antibiotics and pepto-bismal.  Once cured of their chronic
> ulcers the patients no longer need to pay $50/day for the latest in
> ulcer relief.
> 
> Casper