Thank you for sending me the three documents concerning As you know, I continue to be deeply interested in the recombinant DNA issue. If we have any observations to make during the period of public comment, beyond those already made at the meetings of the Interagency Committee, I will have Sid Galler pass them to Joe Perpich. Columbia University in the City of New York | New York, N. Y. 10027 Thank you for sending me the latest on proposed revised guidelines for Recombinant DNA Research (dated Firday, July 28, 1978) in which you asked for my comments in review. This is very easy for me to do since I am opposed to all guidelines (although I will continue to abide by them, of course). My experience in science has convinced me that scientists do a superb job, by and large, of policing themselves. The disastrous effects of discoveries come not from the research laboratory but from the terrible abuses of these discoveries by society. In summary then, I favor the revised guidelines over the previous ones because they represent a relaxation of the restrictions on doing experiments. Yours sincerely, дорузм Geoffrey Zubay Professor of Molecular GZ/1s |