3/30/12

N.S.A.B.B. Recommends Publishing Aersolized Bird Flu Plans

The National Science Advisory board has recommended that research that created an aerosol version of the 60%-fatal-to-humans avian bird flu virus go ahead for published because it might help to understand how mutations make it easier for viruses to be communicated around the world.

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/03/breaking-news-nsabb-reverses-pos.html?rss=1

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/17078818

Listening to a radio story regarding 'bioethicists' being needed to help scientists make up their mind on the topic because they would otherwise not know what to do, I must admit that I was amused at the idea that biologists are amoral, thoughtless drones requiring programming on 'bioethics'. The Nazi's with Dr. Joesph Mengele must have been equally challenged by moral dilemas that required help from 'ethicists' on the nature of good and evil and of right and wrong.

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