'Appalling irresponsibility' - Chinese Scientists engineer a viral strain of Bird Flu

[ZenBowman]

Nobody has a right to stop anyone else from conducting their scientific experiments. If their experiments end up harming people, then they should certainly be sued, but we cannot allow the forward march of science to be stopped by fear.

 

[bolil]

What? It's not like we don't do the same thing... Just look at Project Paperclip and Plum Island. Look at the shiny new National Bio-Agro-defense Facility (NBAF) being built to replace Plum Island: http://www.dhs.gov/national-bio-and-agro-defense-facility

also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Traub

We do much worse than China could ever do...

Its not we, and it is not the chinese per se, it is elites doing what the fuck they do... being assholes. The big one is coming, why shouldn't the next pandemic be a man made one?

Good, I am okay with it getting out as long as the people responsible get killed too.

 

[ZenBowman]

Its not we, and it is not the chinese per se, it is elites doing what the fuck they do... being assholes. The big one is coming, why shouldn't the next pandemic be a man made one?

Good, I am okay with it getting out as long as the people responsible get killed too.

Scientists are elites now?

Calling everyone 'elites' makes the term meaningless, lets keep the word reserved for actual elites.

 

[pcosmar]

Scientists are elites now?

Calling everyone 'elites' makes the term meaningless, lets keep the word reserved for actual elites.

Yup.. They have been in lockstep partnership with the ruling elite for centuries.

And I have nothing against science itself,, or of ethical studies.
But ethics and morality are more often than not,, left at the door.

 

[Anti Federalist]

blimp

 

[Aratus]

i do agree.... if COVID-19 was created in ANY lab, whether by way of orders from the Chinese gov't or more to the point,
ANY GOVERNMENT on this bloody planet, or by way of money and a sophisticated band or group of terrorists, if the virus
is artificial, this begs a question! CHINA may have been attacked, but then the bio-weapon went global. hit the 'perp' too.

 

[Aratus]

whether CHINA is very innocent or very guilty, each time we modify DNA and/or RNA strings, this debates a question!!!!!!

 

[pcosmar]

whether CHINA is very innocent or very guilty, each time we modify DNA and/or RNA strings, this debates a question!!!!!!

I personally do not believe it was created in a Chines lab.
I think it came from a Us Lab with US coronaviruses as a base. (one reason it had little real impact here)
I think it was released in China. for dual purposes..

I also believe it is far less virulent than planned, and so it needed Medical malpractice and Media Hype to Sell it.

and I do believe it is an agenda that transcends either political party. and politics fuels it.