Scientists ask city officials to nix bioterror lab

Lori Price CLG

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Wed Apr-14-04 12:42 AM
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Scientists ask city officials to nix bioterror lab

Scientists ask city officials to nix bioterror lab

BOSTON - Nearly 150 scientists and scholars, including two Nobel laureates, asked city officials Tuesday to block the bioterrorism lab that Boston University plans to build in the city's South End neighborhood.

The scientists, as well as neighborhood and environmental groups, signed a letter to Mayor Thomas Menino and city councilors asking them to nix the laboratory, which would house scientists researching vaccines and handling deadly agents. The letter was also sent to Boston University trustees, who meet Thursday and Friday.

"There are real and potentially catastrophic risks to the health and safety of people in the local and surrounding communities," the letter reads.

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mike_c

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Wed Apr-14-04 12:46 AM
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1. hmmm..., I assume this will be a BL3 or 4 facility....

There are lots of good reasons to establish level three or four research labs, but damn, TERRORISM seems such a doomed-to-be-breached justification. I'd be scared.

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Lori Price CLG

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Wed Apr-14-04 01:03 AM
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2. Right, it's easy for Bush to stage his next act of terrorism...

And then usher in Patriot Act II in a landslide. See how all these things tie together so nicely for the Bush-Rove terror team?
-Lori

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