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Nanoregulation: Technology or Politics?

Posted May 12, 2011 11:18 AM

Government agencies are grappling with how to define nanotechnology, but the process increasingly appears to be driven by policy rather than science. In the rush to establish regulatory frameworks, how do we keep science from taking a back seat? And how can we establish a framework until we truly understand the technology?

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05/13/2011 10:47 PM

What if "nanoregulation" = as little regulation as possible?

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05/15/2011 12:20 PM

that makes way too much such for political decisions

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05/27/2011 4:27 PM

Well I think we need to remember that some of these little buggers are akin to engineered machines that can and will infiltrate human bodies like a virus. While we HOPE to be correct in our programming schemes, one modest oopsy could unleash who knows what. Maybe you sit on a chair and some of them enter your pores. Maybe some of them designed to coat self cleaning dishes gets an attitude after cleaning away Grandma's secret duck sauce, and goes looking for something else to eat. Maybe a little regulation is in order.

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06/07/2011 8:03 PM

True enough the control over new products has become emmense. However, the control in application is relative to the design of the particular nanotube. Their is no real concern until the application of the product is considered to have an autonomous reaction to its enviroment. With out proper instruction any program can find its own means of inserting a random variable into the . As we should Keep Science in the foreFront of the future Since it is Science which allows us to define the boundaries which were not previously realized.

The Technology Sectors must form a collective Effort.

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