I'm with Daniel here, I'm not feeling the vibe you describe.
In any case, as Jason has already revealed, and as I'd have guessed in any case, his quotes were divorced from their original context and used for scare fodder in the piece. I wouldn't hold him accountable.
When someone from NYT asked to interview me, I agreed on condition that I could preview the piece and have my name removed if it was a hit-piece. I got lucky, but you can't tell which reporters are earnest and trustworthy, and ehich have a hidden agenda, until the article's out.
Heck, I narrowly missed getting tied up in the recent BBC hit piece: another stroke of luck.
Do domething edgy, and some people will be fascinated, others petrified. I try to placate the latter category and don't pay much heed if they throw mud around. I'll be lucky if there aren't greenpeace acolytes at my door within the year, after all: what's a few news articles against death threats?
Bryan Bishop <kanzure@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Daniel C. wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Bryan Bishop wrote:
>>> In a fearpiece about biohacking, the combination of you claiming to
>>> represent biohackers (or even have any sort of degree of control
>over
>>> amatuer biohackers), plus the combination of you saying there ought
>to
>>> be regulation, is actually alienating to biohackers.
>>
>> I'm not really seeing, given those quotes, how he's claiming to
>> represent anyone.
>
>He's quoted as the "founder of diybio.org". But in a fluff piece like
>this, exact readings like "DIYbio.org isn't the same thing as DIY
>biology itself" are not to be expected, especially when it's not
>elucidated at all in the article. In the article, Jason's the closest
>thing representing DIY biology. In fact, after having someone read the
>article, you'd be hard pressed to not identify Jason as pretending to
>represent diy biology in this article...
>
>Also, to be fair- if we're talking about an exact reading of the
>article, Jason was probably the one who pointed out to the reporter
>that "limiting information" does not necessarily "limit risk
>exposure".
>
>- Bryan
>http://heybryan.org/
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