概括：because of the fear that the details of Flu experiments could provide a recipe for a bioweapon，A committee that advises the government says that details of experiments on bird flu virus should not be made public.



参与方式：全文听写
Hints:
Erasmus Medical Center
Netherlands
Richard Ebright
Rutgers University
Amy Patterson
National Institutes of Health
文中有一处连字符
One of the experiments was done at Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands. Researchers there issued a statement saying they would follow the recommendations. But they say the data will need to be shared with hundreds of researchers and governments, so keeping control of it will be almost impossible. That point was echoed by Richard Ebright, a chemist at Rutgers University. He's long been calling for stricter oversight of biological research that could pose a threat. He says the government's response is window-dressing. "We do not have a proposed system of effective oversight. We have a public relations management exercise designed to minimize public concern and deflect calls for effective oversight." He says the government should be requiring mandatory reviews of worrisome research before it's done because the real danger is the lab-created virus itself. There's no guarantee it won't escape. Amy Patterson is associate director for science policy at the National Institutes of Health. She says the government is in the process of developing a new framework for overseeing research. "It's not an easy task to walk that delicate tightrope and have a system in place that minimizes the potential for misuse and yet, at the same time, really enable science to move forward in the way that we need it to." She says proposed regulations will be issued in the next month or two, for public comment.