Fight or flight is one of our most primal reflexes – faced with a potential danger we tend to turn one way to confront it or the other way to flee to safety. Fighting was not an option for the public in the aftermath of the accidents in Fukushima and Chernobyl – just as it [...]
Where is the borderline between freedom of inquiry and national security? Between the freedom to pursue – and publish – scientific results and the fear that these published results might be used to horrific effect? Or put another way, are there some lines of scientific inquiry that simply should not be undertaken at all because [...]
By Dr. Y It’s no secret that security in our airports has changed dramatically in the last decade and, whether we think these changes are effective (or needed) or not many of them are here to stay. One of the technologies that has come into vogue recently uses what are called backscatter x-rays to help airport [...]