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STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
STANFORD, CALIFORNIA 94305 » (415) 321-1200

Sranrorp UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE April 24, 1970
Depariment of Genetics

To: Members of Panel 20: Biology and the Future of Man
Committee on Research in the Life Sciences

The final edited version contains, as you may already have noted, a
number of significant changes (see especially pp. 892 and 907 relating
to DDT and oral contraceptives, respectively) compared to the text that
we approved. I do not necessarily take strong exception to them, but
personally do not wish to be associated with then, particularly as they
may be used as polemical ammunition in a number of current controversies.
But I do not wish to embarrass Phil Handler nor the Academy either.

I believe that embarrassment is inevitable if we simply ignore the question
until we are challenged strongly.

For that reason, I urge you to subscribe to the attached letter. Curt Stern
favors this procedure, but has not yet seen the text that I am sending out
herewith.

You may, of course, prefer to alter the text of the proposed letter. If you
have sufficiently strong feelings, please effect them by circulating a pro~
posed revision to the entire group. The signatyres should, I feel, be pre-
sented in alphabetical order.

Please let me know soon.

Sincerely yours,

   

oshua Lederberg

LT. J. P. KENNEDY, JR. LABORATORIES FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE, DEDICATED TO RESEARCH IN MENTAL RETARDATION
MOLBEULAR BIOLOGY HEREDITY NEUROBIOLOGY DEVELOPMENTAL MEDICINE