I know our own Dr. Oliver Medvedik is "the Man" (bad joke) but you at least could've put his name down! The second "Man" is one of Genspace's new members, Dan Orr. They filmed us at Genspace for half a day, and tried several times to get us to estimate what the probability was that "someone" was out there doing bioterrorism stuff in a closet lab or DIY setting. Finally I lost my patience and said that they should ask the experts in bioterror, not me, since nobody in the DIY community was interested in doing it- and if they were, then they were part of the bioterror community and not the DIYbio community. That's the part of the interview that made the final cut below.
We were especially amused by
1) using Oliver's tour of Genspace as the basis for talking about how easy it is to get equipment for cheap on eBay
2) using footage of Sung Won Lim putting samples in our centrifuge as they talked about somewhere a terrorist might be lurking
3) using footage of our high school student interns making spheroplasts from Arabidopsis plants when they talked about someone brewing up a homemade virus
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