{"id":107347,"date":"2020-05-20T13:02:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T20:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/regulation-too-often-shackles-the-hands-of-innovators"},"modified":"2020-05-20T13:02:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T20:02:17","slug":"regulation-too-often-shackles-the-hands-of-innovators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/regulation-too-often-shackles-the-hands-of-innovators","title":{"rendered":"Regulation Too Often Shackles the Hands of Innovators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/regulation-too-often-shackles-the-hands-of-innovators.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After biomedical scientists demonstrated that they could make dangerous viruses like influenza even more dangerous, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) implemented a three-year moratorium on funding such research. But a couple of months ago, in December, the moratorium was lifted, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/us-announces-new-policy-for-pathogens-that-could-cause-a-pandemic\/2017\/12\/19\/bb715f7c-e4b5-11e7-833f-155031558ff4_story.html\">tight set of rules<\/a> were put in its place, such as a mandate for oversight panels.<\/p>\n<p>The prospect of engineering a deadly pandemic virus in a laboratory suggests that only a fool would wish away government regulation entirely.<\/p>\n<p>However, as a whole, regulation has done more harm than good in the arena of scientific innovation. The reason is that the sort of person who thinks like a bureaucratic regulator isn\u2019t the sort of person who thinks like a scientist. The sad fact of the matter is that those most interested in the regulatory process tend to be motivated by politics and ideology rather than scientific inquiry and technological progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After biomedical scientists demonstrated that they could make dangerous viruses like influenza even more dangerous, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) implemented a three-year moratorium on funding such research. But a couple of months ago, in December, the moratorium was lifted, and a tight set of rules were put in its place, such as a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":554,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,1490,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-government","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}