The end of their operations would create a vacuum. We'll go back to silence."Citizens Education Project would like to thank Ed Hammond and the Sunshine Project for their amazing contribution in monitoring chemical and biological issues. They will be sorely missed."
- Richard H. Ebright, professor of microbiology at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J
...in the past few years the bulk of the Sunshine Project's work focused on biodefense research in the United States, which rapidly expanded after the Sep 11 terrorist attacks. Much of the increase in biodefense research has been funded by Project BioShield, a $5.6 billion program passed in 2004 to speed the development of drugs and vaccines to combat the effects of biological, chemical, nuclear, and radiologic agents. The Sunshine Project had said it supported closer federal oversight of US biodefense labs, including legal reforms, mandatory accident reporting, and increased transparencyA dirge too soon
– CIDRAP (Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy, University of Minnesota)
This is the original headline in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Sun May Set on a Project That Monitored Biological-Weapons Research
Ed Hammond is obsessed with Sunshine, not fundraising or a cushy life, but is that any reason to let the Project die when it would be so bloody easy (and cheap) to revive and keep going something so beneficial to us all?and Nature's headline, which is hardly a call to mourn:
Cash crisis puts Sunshine Project in the shade
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