The Knowledge -- Part I
MIT's Technology Review just started an unsettling three part series on bioweapons technology.
Soviet scientists were developing plague-like bioweapons in the 1980s. Why aren't we listening more to a key defector?
"Regarding the progress of biotechnology, Popov told me, 'It seems to most people like something that happens in a few places, a few biological labs. Yet now it is becoming widespread knowledge.' Furthermore, he stressed, it is knowledge that is Janus-faced in its potential applications. 'When I prepare my lectures on genetic engineering, whatever I open, I see the possibilities to make harm or to use the same things for good -- to make a biological weapon or to create a treatment against disease.'"
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Soviet scientists were developing plague-like bioweapons in the 1980s. Why aren't we listening more to a key defector?
"Regarding the progress of biotechnology, Popov told me, 'It seems to most people like something that happens in a few places, a few biological labs. Yet now it is becoming widespread knowledge.' Furthermore, he stressed, it is knowledge that is Janus-faced in its potential applications. 'When I prepare my lectures on genetic engineering, whatever I open, I see the possibilities to make harm or to use the same things for good -- to make a biological weapon or to create a treatment against disease.'"
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