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Opinion
Nature 414, 235 (15 November 2001) | doi:10.1038/35104750
The end of innocence?
Abstract
Biologists must become more aware that their work could be abused to develop weapons of mass destruction. But it should not have taken the disturbing events of recent weeks to bring this debate to the fore.
In suggesting that biologists must regulate their work to prevent the free flow of information to would-be bioweapons developers, George Poste will win himself few friends at the lab bench. Yet biologists would do well to ponder on the comments of this adviser to the US Department of Defense, and former senior executive in the drugs industry, made at a conference in London (see page 237).
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