Galveston County Daily News, Nov. 9, 2008 This editorial by Heber Taylor makes the case for the Galveston National Laboratory. He wrote, "Put simply, the real danger is not that deadly pathogens will get out of the lab and land on the doorsteps of people who live in Galveston. It's that these pathogens, which evolve in nature, will arrive on the doorsteps of mankind before researchers can study them and prepare a defense."