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It takes a serious amount of resources to search for a cure or vaccine; they could just have easily made it available on request without limiting the amount of

• mbreese 12y ago
  Requests require committees. Committees require meetings. Meetings take time. The more red tape you put up, the harder it is for people to get to work on this. If someone has the ability to print out a working copy of ebola in 10/20/100 years, someone else will have the ability to print out working antibodies. I'd be less concerned about some potential future risk and more concerned with getting out of the way of people who are working on Ebola research right now. Plus, if some nut job wanted to print out some Ebola with a hypothetical bioprinter, they'd probably end up infecting themselves as well.
  • tedks 12y ago
    > Requests require committees. Committees require meetings. Meetings take time. This is totally false. Plenty of research material is "distributed on request" where the request is just an email and the validation is just checking that the email comes from an academic domain. It doesn't really matter if someone can print out antibodies (hypothetically). That won't help the people already killed by the ebola.