Editor’s note: This editorial about the Biotechnology Industry Organization conference, written by BioWorld’s publisher, originally appeared in a 2007 edition of BioWorld Perspectives, just before BIO in Boston. We asked him to update it for BIO 2011, which begins this weekend in Washington, D.C. He saw me approaching, and glanced down at the pink bar on my name badge and the word "Media." He pointed his finger at me. "You're a part of it!" he said, tauntingly. My conversation with this earnest young protester in San Francisco in 2004 remains one of my most enduring BIO memories. We talked for...