No.

There is absolutely no reason to create a "super virus" just to study it.

It's called producing a biological weapon, I don't care how you spin the story.

The is eerily reminiscent of Dr. Mary's Monkey.

Humanity is going to wind-up destroying itself. It's inevitable.

Edit to add:

And just how do they know it "easily spreads through humans"? How many have they already tried it on? Every time a new super-virus comes into the news they try to scare the hell out of us by saying "it could easily transfer to humans if it mutates"...

So how do they already know this one works on people?

I'm just looking forward to the one that makes humans sterile. The sooner the better.

If I use my tools and build some additional skill to make new things from steel and aluminum, it's a good thing. Even profitable. If I use those skills to make a machine gun and a silencer, I'll go to prison...as I probably should. All things being equal.

If I use my intelligence and become a microbiologist, THAT is also a good thing. Highly profitable. The machine shop guy can build my toys for me. If I then use those skills to build a weapon capable of killing a % of he entire human species...well, I don't go to prison. I get a friggen award. Now where do we all sign up to be biologists? That's a pretty good gig for the % who have no human morals.

OMG this is the first time I've heard about this, living under a rock and all!

WHEN the masses rise up against the PTB it's time to release the virus Eugenics, cull the flock. Fear being the biggest motivator, they could do it with just a pandemic scare and remove the masses with a vaccine.

There is a very urgent need to research viruses like this. In nature viruses often pickup and lose genetic code due to mutations. This virus is required to study how to treat such a mutation when it occurs. If we don't find treatments for it now when it's under our control then when this mutation pops up all by itself in nature we will be totally unprepared. Science can't win! People either complain that research such as this is being done or complain when outbreaks happen and there are no effective treatments available!

Face reality, this WILL occur in nature eventually. Better to prepare now than not prepare and possibly loose millions of human lives trying to develop a treatment in the future.

Maybe one day vaccines will be spread with a virus.

Originally posted by Anon77
There is a very urgent need to research viruses like this. In nature viruses often pickup and lose genetic code due to mutations. This virus is required to study how to treat such a mutation when it occurs. If we don't find treatments for it now when it's under our control then when this mutation pops up all by itself in nature we will be totally unprepared. Science can't win! People either complain that research such as this is being done or complain when outbreaks happen and there are no effective treatments available!

Face reality, this WILL occur in nature eventually. Better to prepare now than not prepare and possibly loose millions of human lives trying to develop a treatment in the future.

I'm sorry, I just have to disagree and say what was done here was not only wrong, it was foolhardy. Ill conceived. The man is lucky beyond description that he wasn't outright killed and his work stolen....before we even get INTO the ethical black hole of making such a thing in the first place. I'd read a bit more here and done more thinking on this, and it ought to be criminal. I don't mean he should be prosecuted somehow, but NO ONE should be legally allowed to follow i his footsteps outside of lvl 4 military labs with all the security they bring.

How safe would you feel with a few nuclear weapons sitting at a university campus and the public then learning they're there.... without a military base surrounding them? This bug makes a nuke look like a firecracker. A Nuclear Weapon is only a localized effect. A city...tops. Terrible...tragic...but manageable. This IDIOT made death itself capable of taking a % of our world's population! He did this on a UNIVERSITY Campus?? I don't see any mention anywhere that he was working with or under USAMRID..and I don't know any other authority in this nation capable of working with and safely developing such a nightmare.

Just a question..and why I'm really in shock after giving this thought..... Going back to that nuke question... How far would terrorists go to get something like this? Heck.... Why bother. Never Mind. Half the challenge would be confirming it COULD be done for certain, at all. Now he's confirmed it for the world...good and bad. Everyone knows if they work hard enough and long enough.....it won't be a wasted effort. Homicide on a PLANETARY level is possible!

No.. No one should be allowed to bioengineer world killing bugs like this. NEVER EVER in the civilian world. Some things *HAVE* to be military for a bunch of reasons. Here is #1, IMO.

The time is drawing closer, ya'll all better be ready

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