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- noun rare A
mistake ofbiological science thatendangers humankind .
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A few years ago, Lord Martin Rees, who holds three of the most distinguished titles in the scientific world (Astronomer Royal; Master of Trinity College, Cambridge; and head of the 350-year-old Royal Society, London) offered a $1,000 wager that bioterror or bioerror would unleash a catastrophic event claiming one million lives in the next two decades.
The Age of Pandemics 2009
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In the next decades, the most pressing of all dangers will be the threat of bioterror and bioerror.
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Rees is willing to bet one thousand dollars that by the year 2020, "bioterror or bioerror will lead to one million casualties in a single event."
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In the next decades, the most pressing of all dangers will be the threat of bioterror and bioerror.
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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Rees is willing to bet one thousand dollars that by the year 2020, "bioterror or bioerror will lead to one million casualties in a single event."
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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Reducing the threat from bioerror and bioterror is an even more important goal.
Web Edition | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Robert Carlson 2008
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From the Utopian corner we’ve the end of racism, 4-day working weeks and immortality, with dystopias pitching bioterror and bioerror, lessons in defence against robot attacks for school children and, depending on your take on it all, a world government.
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Martin Rees, Britain’s Astronomer Royal, a professor at Cambridge University, has bet $1,000 that an instance of bioterror or bioerror will take a million lives before the year 2020.
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