Showing posts with label Controversy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Controversy. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 04, 2012

Royal Society H5N1 Symposium: Day 2

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    # 6260   At 4 am EDT, 9 am BST (UTC+1), day two of the Royal Society’s H5N1 research: biosafety, biosecurity and bioethic...
Sunday, April 01, 2012

The Scientist: Deliberating H5N1 Research

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    # 6256   The decision on Friday by the NSABB to clear the way for the publication of the Fouchier and Kawaoka research papers h...
Thursday, March 29, 2012

NSABB To Re-examine H5N1 Research Risks

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  # 6249     Today and tomorrow the NSABB   ( National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity ) will reconvene to re-examine t...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Dysfunctional Science

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    # 6246     Six weeks ago in Science at the Crossroads , I wrote about the decline the public’s trust in science.   Whil...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Laurie Garrett Dissects The Rationale For H5N1 Research

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  BSL-4 Lab Worker - Photo Credit –USAMRIID   # 6237     Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and author Laurie Garrett   has ...
Saturday, March 10, 2012

The H5N1 Research Credibility Gap

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  BSL-4 Lab Worker - Photo Credit –USAMRIID # 6214     As blogger fodder, one could hardly ask for a better controversy tha...
Wednesday, March 07, 2012

Laurie Garrett Blogs On The H5N1 Research Controversy

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  # 6205     Laurie Garrett , Pulitzer-prize winning journalist ( 1996 for her series on Ebola ) and author of 3 books (including Th...
Tuesday, March 06, 2012

mBio: The H5N1 Biosafety Level Debate

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  UPDATED: mBio has published4 editorial/commentary pieces on the H5N1 research debate.  I’ve posted the links at the bottom of this blo...
Saturday, March 03, 2012

Science Magazine: NSABB Members React To Fouchier Statement

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    # 6193     In the wake of the surprise announcement by Ron Fouchier earlier this week that the H5N1 virus he created is l...
Friday, March 02, 2012

New Scientist: Mutant H5N1 Still Deadly

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    # 6191     Debora MacKenzie, writing for New Scientist , was one of the first journalists to report on Ron Fouchier’s experi...
Wednesday, February 29, 2012

ECDC Risk Assessment On H5N1 Transmissibility Studies

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    # 6185     Today the ECDC   released a Risk Assessment on the H5N1 transmissibility studies conducted by Fouchier and Kawaoka...

CIDRAP News: NSABB May Revisit H5N1 Research

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    # 6184   Robert Roos, News editor for CIDRAP News , has a detailed report on today’s ASM Biodefense panel discussion (see AS...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Webcast: Discussion Of NSABB’s H5N1 Recommendations

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    # 6181   My thanks to Helen Branswell for tweeting this event.   Set you alarm clocks accordingly, as tomorrow morning ( We...
Friday, February 24, 2012

The Great CFR Divide

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      # 6173     Over the past two days we’ve seen two highly divergent papers come out on the probable spread, and Case Fatalit...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Peter Sandman On H5N1 Research Risk Communications

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    # 6162     I’m a bit chagrinned to admit that I hadn’t checked Peter Sandman’s terrific risk communications website over the ...
Saturday, February 18, 2012

Laurie Garrett Blogs On The H5N1 Research Controversy

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    # 6156     Laurie Garrett , Pulitzer-prize winning journalist ( 1996 for her series on Ebola ) and  author of 3 books (includi...
Friday, February 17, 2012

WHO News Release On Geneva H5N1 Technical Meeting

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    # 6153   The World Health Organization has posted a statement in the wake of this week’s Technical consultation on H5N1 rese...
Thursday, February 16, 2012

WHO Releases List Of Participants At H5N1 Meeting In Geneva

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  # 6148   Today the World Health Organization released the names of the 22 scientists invited to participate in the first technic...
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Branswell On the CFR Of H5N1

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    Credit CDC PHIL   - BSL-4 Lab Worker # 6143     Yesterday we saw an article in Nature by Declan Butler that looked at...
Wednesday, February 08, 2012

Nature Editorial: Facing Up To Flu

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  BSL-4 Lab Worker - Photo Credit –USAMRIID     # 6130   Tying in with my last post (see Declan Butler: Lab flu may not ai...