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So, I mean, I think it is a worthwhile concept
to bring in but I do not think that the fact that there are
only "three types of protection" means that the level of
risks that are involved are the same for all and,
therefore, we would invoke the protections with the same
expectations of need for using them.
DR. EMANUEL: I think, Alex, your suggestion
about the three-dimensionality of the framework is
absolutely right and that is why the boxes are, you know,
in some sense -- while risk is an important consideration,
the way you take care of risk, what you do about it, how
you operationalize it in terms of protections, that is what
we have put in.
So your thinking and my thinking are exactly
parallel and I think what we are seeing here is the
question of, in fact, when we think about the kinds of
research that are going to fit into these different boxes
what are the levels of risk that might be involved and part
of the problem is at least at the moment we do not have
actually concrete research studies.
One of the things the commission did do is to
look at some of the studies that have existed that have
worked with these kinds of samples and talked about what we
thought some of the risks might be.