May 4, 2007
Panel on 'Dual Use' Advises Little Oversight
A federal advisory board has proposed ways for scientists and universities to minimize the risk that terrorists would use research findings about disease-causing microbes to mount biological attacks. The panel would give individual scientists much of the responsibility to police their conduct and to decide how much sensitive information they publish.
Critics faulted the recommendations from the panel, the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, for not adequately defining what
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