Steve Wheeler has posted on a new American Society of Cell Biology Annual Meeting policy in which electronic devices are banned. According to Wheeler, the policy was implemented to prevent attendees from disseminating specific data. From the post:
It is highly likely that given the highly scientific nature of this conference, many of the presenters at the conference are presenting new research and wish to protect their intellectual property from their peers until their work has been published. This may sound like a reasonable idea at face value, but I ask you – why do we go to conferences in the first place?
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