Team:TU-Delft/Ethics/Rathenau
From 2012.igem.org
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Together with the Rathenau Institute, our team organized one of the two debate rounds at the event Meeting of Young Minds. This debate took place on October 5h, the Friday of the Jamboree. The topic of this debate was about the release of research details on the creation of highly transmissible H5N1 (bird flu) in the lab. This topic was subdivided into three statements.
The experts who were invited to talk during this debate were
During this debate the public was asked to vote before and after each statement if they agreed or disagreed with the statement. It was very interesting to see that a few people did change their minds after they heard the discussion between the experts and our team. The second round the iGEM team of UCL was hosting another debate about a future scenario disaster caused by synthetic bacteria that has mutated, which was also a very interesting debate. Those two debates were also judged by an independent jury, and have chosen our team as the WINNER of the MEETING OF YOUNG MINDS 2012!!! To get an impression of the debate, click here |