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DR. FREDRICKSON: We will see that you have time for those as well. 
But we do need to have an airing of this issue and I think that you should 
attend, please, to the comments of Dr. Berg about this. 
Yes? 
DR. BROWN: My name is Donald Brown. Do I understand from your com- 
ments that you are going to come up with another variorum edition? There 
are probably other people out here who have different suggested guidelines. 
Is it your idea that you wish to give equal time to all of these? 
DR. FREDRICKSON: Well, the reason that I have taken the trouble to do 
this is that we have now as a matter of record this submission from the 
group, Dr. Goldstein's group. It has been presented to us; it naturally 
raises issues of variance. 
We probably will not have time to open another variorum, but if in your 
presentation and others that occur — 
DR. BROWN: I have a Xerox copy over there. 
DR. FREDRICKSON: All right. Indeed, I think that we are moving now 
toward these major differences between what we have presented and other per- 
ceptions of how they might be different. We can perhaps in the course of 
our discussion now, particularly tomorrow, leave some time for discussing 
some of those points. But we will not go through a whole variorum edition, 
and cannot. Therefore, I hope we restrict ourselves to what seems to be 
the important issues. This is, again, a matter of conception, but I would 
ask that you try to do so. 
Now, I would like to call upon Dr. Susan Wright from the University of 
Michigan. 
DR. WRIGHT: As a historian of science, I have been interested today 
by much of the discussion — 
DR. FREDRICKSON: We can't hear you. Please do speak up much more. 
DR. WRIGHT: As a historian of science, I have been interested today 
by how much of the discussion, especially this morning, has focused on two 
aspects of recombinant DNA research — first, the molecular aspects, in which 
DNA is treated primarily as a combination of inert particles, and secondly 
the possibility of biological containment by manipulation of the genes of 
E. coli. 
Both approaches, it seems to me, ignore something fundamental, namely 
the fantastic capacity of living organisms to adapt and to survive. This 
seems to me to be a serious concern in that we may lose sight of the fact 
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