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...Council's decision to extend the moratorium initiated last June in the wake of extensive public controversy over the research was made partly because the council wants to see an environmental impact statement by the National Institute of Health (NIH) before it permits the research, a statement accompanying the Council's decision said...
Afflicted with laryngitis. Meselson soothingly discussed the NIH safety guidelines and pointed out the advantages of being able to do DNA research in "a more or less directed way" in the laboratory...
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...National Institutes of Health responded with rules establishing research review committees at all institutions receiving NIH money. The committees were to include community representatives and members of non-medical professions. NIH also set up standards of "informed consent," specifying the kinds of information researchers had to provide their subjects before experimenting on them...
...once: "Decisions about the direction of research should be left to individual investigators rather than deans..." The phrase, "direction of research," is vague and in another context the statement might seem benign. But in the midst of Bok's complaints it could be interpreted as a slap at the NIH-mandated review process and as a boost to the misguided notion that "freedom of inquiry" guarantees to all scientists the right to do as they please with their experimental subjects. Not that Bok accepts that notion; but since he offers no evidence that he rejects it or that he appreciates...