a six-point research plan was proposed to investigate 
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further the nature and extent of certain types of risks.— 
To our knowledge, this plan has not been implemented. 
IV. BARRIERS TO PUBLIC REVIEW OF TECHNICAL INFORMATION 
At the last public hearing on these guidelines in 
December 1977, Professor Robert Sinsheimer found himself 
unable to comment on that round of proposed revisions because 
of NIH's "extensive reliance on unpublished data."— ^ 
We find ourselves in the same unfortunate position with 
respect to the new assertions that recombinant DNA experiments 
carried out under the guidelines present negligible risk. 
Advocates of a relaxation cite three important 
sets of data: 
(1) The proceedings of the Falmouth conference 
held in June 1977; 
(2) The deliberation at the United States-European 
Molecular Biology Organization (US-EMBO) workshop 
held in Ascot in January 1978; 
(3) The Martin-Rowe experiments. 
Leaving aside the specific findings of these discussions 
and experiments, which are discussed in §§ V and VI infra. 
2 / Journal of Infectious Diseases , 137 , (1978) pp. 704-714. 
The proceedings of the Falmouth Conference were published 
in this, the May, issue of the Journal. A large number of 
the references we cite below will be to this issue; in the 
interests of simplicity, we shall simply refer to the 
appropriate page number, preceded by an ' F' to designate the 
Falmouth proceedings. 
3/ N. Wade, Science , 177 (1978), 31. 
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