In The Kingdom Of Forgetting (tags)
Memory can be an embarrassing thing. In politics, it's often more convenient to forget. The classic illustration of this idea was Orwell's dystopian Ministry of Truth, where functionaries fed any inconvenient bit of information down the memory hole -- "whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air."
Government Intervention Halts Human Progress (tags)
From the book "Julian Simon and the Triumpth of Energy Sustainability" 2000. (They haven't killed any scientists lately, guess the war is keeping them busy)