{"id":220,"date":"2013-10-14T23:40:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T23:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pnlca.dscloud.me\/wordpress\/?p=220"},"modified":"2013-10-14T23:40:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T23:40:05","slug":"why-scientists-held-back-details-on-a-unique-botulinum-toxin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ladam.info\/index.php\/2013\/10\/14\/why-scientists-held-back-details-on-a-unique-botulinum-toxin\/","title":{"rendered":"New Botulinum Toxin: Scientists choose NOT to publish."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems to be the <strong>first time that scientists THEMSELVES choose not to publish their work<\/strong> for biosecurity reasons.<br \/>\n<strong>A first sign that responsible stewardship discourse in Life Science is taking roots?<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/health\/2013\/10\/11\/230957188\/why-scientists-held-back-details-on-a-unique-botulinum-toxin\">Why Scientists Held Back Details On A Unique Botulinum Toxin<\/a><br \/>\nExcerpts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The new form of the toxin was discovered by Jason Barash and Stephen Arnon at the California Department of Public Health. [&#8230;]<br \/>\nBut in the newly reported case, they found a completely unexpected toxin\u2014one that cannot be neutralized by any of the currently available anti-botulinum antiserums.[&#8230;]<br \/>\nAn editorial accompanying the report notes that the scientists consulted with<strong> numerous officials from government agencies such as the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;It would seem that this process, or this consultation, was <strong>entirely an internal, within-the-government kind of consultation,&#8221;<\/strong> says Relman.<br \/>\n[NSABB], which played an important role in the recent debate whether to publish controversial research on bird flu, apparently wasn&#8217;t consulted this time around. &#8220;N<strong>one of us had heard of this work<\/strong> until I was sent it,&#8221; says Relman.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencesetavenir.nouvelobs.com\/sante\/20131015.OBS1138\/une-nouvelle-bacterie-terriblement-mortelle.html\">a french article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems to be the first time that scientists THEMSELVES choose not to publish their work for biosecurity reasons. A first sign that responsible stewardship discourse in Life Science is taking roots? Why Scientists Held Back Details On A Unique Botulinum Toxin Excerpts: The new form of the toxin was discovered by Jason Barash and&nbsp;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[49,85,154,188,192],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monitor-science","category-role-scientists","tag-botulinum-toxin","tag-dual-use","tag-monitor-science-2","tag-responsible-stewardship","tag-role-scientists-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladam.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladam.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladam.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladam.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladam.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ladam.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladam.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladam.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladam.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}