Near death experience of Howard Storm

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Even today, scientific discoveries take a while for to be made public, when they are declassified. It's usually 20 year old technology before the public knows about it.

What?!!
Things get published in journals and scientists are more than eager to publish their newest shiny toy, so that no one else can claim to have done that same thing.
Granted, most journals do require a subscription to read the whole paper, but the abstracts are always available online as soon as they are published, free of charge.
Like any newspaper, you need to buy in order to read it.