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Because the decisions of the IBC will contain elements dealing with 
safety and other policy determinations, elements which are largely "subjective," 
value-laden, and political, we should recognize that the aim as regards the 
competence of such groups is for wisdom, not merely knowledge. Knowledge, 
in the sense of scientific information and fact, is an essential but insufficient 
component of the information which must go into the deliberations of the IBCs. 
Wisdom encompasses knowledge but is broader. The committees contemplated by 
the Guideline revisions would not possess the necessary competence to 
effectively carry out their mandate. They should be required to have a 
demographic distribution which somehow reflects the communities in which they 
are located, as well as possessing the necessary scientific expertise, in 
order to blend these two aspects of the decision-making processes they will 
be engaged in. Thus there should be requirement as to the distribution of 
committee members by age, sex, income level, professional background, and other 
demographic variables. In addition, many individuals who would be necessary 
for membership on such committees are not currently being paid for the time 
and effort which they would be devoting to such an activity. The guidelines 
should require compensation for those individuals for whom service on a committee 
would be a financial difficulty, especially insofar as they would take time 
and energy which these individuals would otherwise have to expend in supporting 
themselves and their dependents, 
I should mention in passing that the insistence in the guidelines that 
IBCs be understood as referring to "institutional biosafety committees"rather 
than "institutional biohazard committees" as they have been known for some 
time, smacks of the grossest kind of doublespeak and euphemism. The Director's 
comment. (FR 33064) that "I have decided to change the name of the biohazards 
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