Qiaochu_Yuan comments on A brief history of ethically concerned scientists - Less Wrong
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Right, there's a survivorship bias. You're not going to hear about scientists who successfully prevented anyone from learning about their terrible discoveries (because to be really successful they'd also need to prevent anyone from learning that they'd prevented anyone from learning about their terrible discoveries).