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Highlights: #171 – Alison Young on how top labs have jeopardised public health with repeated biosafety failures
22 minutes Posted Nov 21, 2023 at 6:58 pm.
Intro
The case of the found smallpox vials
The Soviet anthrax leak
A culture of martyrdom
No one wants to regulate biolabs
Nobody is tracking how many biosafety level 3 labs there are
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This is a selection of highlights from episode #171 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

These aren't necessarily the most important, or even most entertaining parts of the interview — and if you enjoy this, we strongly recommend checking out the full episode:

Alison Young on how top labs have jeopardised public health with repeated biosafety failures

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Highlights put together by Simon Monsour, Milo McGuire, and Dominic Armstrong