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—A New York Times editorial recommending against publication of data that describe mutating the H5N1, or bird flu, virus so that it passes from mammal to mammal (Jan. 7, 2012)
—Virologist Ron Fouchier, who led the research team that produced a variant of bird flu that passed between ferrets, prompting a US federal advisory committee to recommend a voluntary moratorium on publishing the results (Los Angeles Times, Dec. 26, 2011)
—Philosopher Massimo Pigliucci, in his review of Biology and Ideology: From Descartes to Dawkins (Rationally Speaking, Dec. 14, 2011)
—University of Cambridge psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen, in an essay spun off from his new book The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty (The Montréal Review, Oct. 2011)
—Primate researcher Frans de Waal ...
