Rebecca Fairley Raney covers the Data Quality Act in today's New York Times. This seems to be the beginning of mainstream press coverage for DQA, but it won't be the end. The DQA allows the public to challenge inaccurate science on government web sites, or used in administrative rule-making, and have it corrected or removed. If we're lucky, that's the only way it will be used. But the same mechanism also allows corporations to undermine regulations they dislike by challenging the science underlying them, e.g. about carcinogens, car safety, or greenhouse gases. (See FOSN for 4/1/02.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/03/2002 10:50:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
