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1 in my opinion, will be a vast realm of unknowns becoming 
2 known. It just isn't true that this realm has many doors 
3 which could be as easily entered. The recombinant door 
4 has been opened for us already, and it is the only door 
5 open now. Maybe there will be other doors, by maybe not. 
6 What will be the cost to those who could have been helped, 
7 but weren't? 
g I sympathize with those who see uncertainties 
g in such a future. What is the security in all these 
10 unknowns? But for all the nostalgia, do we truly want to 
11 go back, or even stay here forever? It is true that today’s 
12 technology has carried with it a cost. However, I for one, 
13 find coping with saccharin considerably more tolerable than 
14 enduring polio. 
15 I find the guidelines for recombinant DNA 
16 inquiry an intellectual outrage. These new guidelines 
17 seem to me the tiniest of steps in the right direction, 
ig Only the strongest of documentation should persuade us 
19 to avoid such a token. 
20 Thank you. 
21 MR. LIBASSI: Thank you very much. 
22 Oscar Miller is the next speaker. 
23 DR. MILLER: My name is Oscar Miller. I am 
24 Professor and Chairman of the Department of Biology at 
25 the University of Virginia. As a current non-user of 
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