[SpaceBar]

And so starts the Able Orbit scandal.

[thoughtomator]

If you publish your information openly to the Internet, it's hard to then claim that it was private.

[Just mythoughts]

We gotta have a government registry. (sarcasm)

[martin_fierro]

Watch the Skies! (while looking over your shoulder)

[Mount Athos]

How is a google search unethical?
Since when are scientists against the open dissemination of information? Maybe the ones in the employ of private companies developing patents, but astronomers?

[Congressman Billybob]

The words of Tom Lehrer's "Lobachevsky" (sp?) are ringing in my years. "Don't shade your eyes / Remember why the God Lord made your eyes / And plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize / But, please always to call it research."

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "Kathleen Blanco: Beyond Gross Public Dumb"

[SpaceBar]

Original scientific data (i.e. measurements, lab notes, writings) is/are protected by intellectual property right laws regardless of how it is obtained by a second party, be if it off the internet, photocopied from a book, transcribed from another source, etc. Further, basing one's scientific claims on data found to be the intellectual property of another without the other's consent and acknowledgment of that consent is scientific plagiarism and puts the scientific credentials of the claimant in jeopardy, plain and simple.

[Cacique]

The man is a THIEF

[SunkenCiv]

this topic is from 2005.