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...Committee on Research Policy of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which organized the forum, will decide next week whether to recommend that Harvard construct a facility for the controversial research, Edward L. Pattullo, director of the Center for Behavioral Sciences and executive secretary of the committee, said yesterday...
Matthew S. Meselson and Ruth Hubbard, professors of biology, and Mark S. Ptashne, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, also will speak at the meeting, Pattullo said...
...immediate question," Pattullo said, "is whether Harvard should approve the building of this containment facility on the third floor of the Bio Labs." Much of the debate at Harvard and nationally has centered on how stringently isolated such facilities must be in order to ensure that no new, potentially dangerous organisms escape...
Another committee member, Gartrell, has "known a couple of cases" of potentially risky research never having been reviewed. And Pattullo himself acknowledges the problem: "There's quite a lot of research that goes on which should come to our attention but which never gets reviewed...
...changing the regulation which allows researchers to bypass the Committee in certain cases, if they so choose. Many tend to see the problem as one of education, not stricter regulation. "I'd rather handle this through an education process than through a stronger policing effort," Kelman says. And Pattullo believes that he has a "considerable" educational responsibility. "It's a task which is never done," he says...