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Since the terrorist attacks and anthrax letters in 2001, the US government has multiplied the number of government programs and agencies concerned with biosecurity and greatly increased its spending on related projects, including a 20-fold increase in spending for biodefense research. This paper considers whether the surge in spending and the responses from industry, universities, and individual scientists...