The new agency is "designed to speed up the development of biodefense countermeasures by finding products..." What exactly is a biodefense countermeasure - bio-offense?
BARDA will be part of the Dept of Health and Human Services' Project Bioshield that was created in July 2004 to deal with biodefense research and products like vaccines. It seems that BARDA will financially support corporations involved in biotech research and production that were supposedly not aided by the original provisions of Project Bioshield.
Such news makes the critique of these new iterations of the military-industrial complex by Critical Art Ensemble in their latest project "Marching Plague" even more significant.
The Scientist : New U.S. biodefense agency signed into law
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