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Published online 10 September 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/455150a
Physicist convicted over links with Iran and China
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This story raises both goosebumps, chiils and questions for scientists. It is important to protect national security. Yet it is clear that such laws contain many overlaps just as research often does. Guessing the best course of action for all US scientists and engineers is to proceed with caution.
This is just nuts, and just one more example of the accelerating "Sovietization" of the once-democratic USA. 150 years for being a teacher. I suppose a cup of hemlock will be forced on the next unfortunate.
How does having an Iranian student constitute 'links to Iran'? The headline is not supported by the facts given in the story. Do I also have 'links to Russia' because I occasionally talk with a Russian student in my institute? Nature should be careful not to editorially endorse an apparent witch-hunt without clear evidence.
Dear Reader: The thoughts of the Greeks, come to me, as I am reading something of them. A Means, aas it were to Commuicate to one another by Dialogue or call it Conversation, which in turn leads to a Knowledge of the World and the Pre- sent day as a Reality. All this is the way of the Ancients, and now we are a Complex World, and the means for Security, must be in a State, of being able to understand, The Knowledge, is The Power. It does follow that the means to Filter this is of Great Importance. The People who you have as Friends, is more important. the Student, and the people who surport the System of the Education, with in the Subject matter can lead to a good deal of Undermining of the National Intrest, and just What That Means. The Lines of markcation, are I am affraid Vast, and requie that they be in an automation. I think that the Crime of having given this to an Entity, to which yo are not sure of that State, is for our own People to judge who are People in the Feild. The over ride of the Centure of the Knowledge is an Up Front an a Limitation to the Education, but must be IN PLAY. Yours Truly, Michael Trager PS. The most simple things are the fastest to Compute. It makes them easy to accept, and think, that they are Right, and this is not so, there fore Complex Thought is to BE Learned.
The headline of this article refers to a physicist being convicted, yet the first line refers to Mr. Roth as an electrical engineer. Which description is correct, if either? How many other mistakes are there in this piece?
If you read the cited article, it is evident that both descriptions are correct. Dr. Roth is a plasma physicist affiliated with the Department of Electrical Engineering.