UK Academics See Danger In New Terror Bill

When Britain’s Parliament begins debate this week on a new bill designed to combat terrorism, the country’s academics and university librarians will be watching closely. Some in the academic world fear that the bill as currently worded would brand the dissemination of some chemistry textbooks (which include basic explosive ingredient lists) as a terrorist act. “The Association of University Teachers says the new offences of encouraging or training for terrorism could effectively outlaw an ethics debate about political violence, or a chemistry lesson.”