And, a major difficulty has been immigration. The USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 imposed stringent new visa requirements that restricted scientists and science students from all over the world from entering the U.S. Albert Teich, who has tracked the issue for the American Association for the Advancement of Science where he is director of science and policy programs, says that problem peaked in 2003, but has since improved, especially following lobbying of Congress by scientific societies and advice from the National Academy of Sciences, whose 2009 report "Beyond 'Fortress America'" and 2007 report "Rising above the Gathering Storm" were among those to suggest the rules be eased. But the policies had a lasting impact on the ability of U.S. researchers to collaborate and recruit students, he says.

Teich adds that security concerns have cast a shadow over U.S. science in a number of ways, and points to the erection of a steel security barrier around the perimeter of the previously open campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. "To me," he says, "that fence is a very dramatic visual impact of 9/11 on science."

9 Comments

1. 1. Shortie 08:57 AM 9/1/11

   "...victims from the tens of thousands of charred human remains recovered at Ground Zero." ...What?
   
   As traumatic as this event was, initial estimates were 6000 fatalities which were later corrected to slightly less than 3000, including the plane passengers and Pentagon.

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2. 2. Shortie 09:51 AM 9/1/11

   "...developing DNA assays to identify 911 victims from the tens of thousands of [fragments of] {charred} human remains recovered at Ground Zero."
   
   Perhaps addition of [fragments of] and deletion of {charred} would be clearer and less sensational.

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3. 3. klegey 06:19 PM 9/1/11

   unfortunately - the method "they are doing terrorist acts/ genocide/ etc., So we (helpers?) should help them"* - still exists.
   
   * for power, money, land etc. by killing more innocent people than terrorists do

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4. 4. Ronald Patrick Marriott 07:08 PM 9/1/11

   To bad it does not analyze DNA for world take overs and secret societies powering the worlds crumbling adventures called life

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5. 5. johnwerneken 02:26 PM 9/2/11

   More proof that "helpful regulation" is in danger of becoming an oxymoron and "dumb regulation" a redundancy.

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6. 6. rohemast 04:09 PM 9/2/11

   Wow. Serious articles have the power to bring out the conspiracy theorists, the nut-bars and the nitpickers, don't they.

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7. 7. Ronald Patrick Marriott in reply to rohemast 09:33 PM 9/2/11

   Airplanes with no windows, Demolition of building seven took 3 weeks of charge setting and no nplane hit that one. But it fell like a demo job, wake up blind man

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8. 8. Shortie 02:30 AM 9/3/11

   @rohemast -
   
   And meaningless commenters...hmm....
   If it's not clear, precise and ultimately validatable it verges into Foxination.

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9. 9. jmach 07:12 AM 3/12/13

   A publication affiliating itself with science, yet unable to see through the propaganda that the official story defies Newton's laws: the official 11-second collapse time for WTC 1, 2 is absolutely impossible as it is exactly the fall time from 1360 feet in .. AIR. Further,
   no plane hit WTC 7, symmetrical debris has not yet been invented and, no one knows how to decide with an unnamed fire department commander to ""pull"" a 47 story building .. and watch it fall symmetrically five hours later unless demo materials were already in place awaiting the plane that never showed. Wake up. You've been had. Not fire; not heat: demolition by thermate!
   (also: not GW, not Government, per se, but don't rule out
   Larry, Dick and Don)

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