So Dutch scientists are doing work with the avian flu to make it more easily transmissible among mammals. I’m sure that the Law of Unintended Consequences won’t somehow make this regrettable at all.
And virologist Lynn Enquist, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Virology, which published the St. Jude’s study, says that paper didn’t ring the types of alarm bells that would prompt a referral to the advisory board. It involved putting a key gene from the H5N1 virus into the H1N1 virus that caused the 2009 pandemic.
Having knowledge outstrip wisdom isn’t the recipe for the funniest end to civilization that I was looking for. I would have much preferred to just dwell on the impending worldwide economic collapse.
So far, the response seems pretty milquetoast:
“If the goal of the experiment is to create a virus for which there currently is no vaccine or treatment, that if it escapes from the lab by accident could start a pandemic , if that literally is one of the outcomes of the experiment, I think the benefits of that would have to be extraordinary to justify that.”
Yeah, I’m sure that “extraordinary benefits” would make a lightning fast pandemic all ok. How about “ARE YOU INSANE???? WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?????”
I think i’ve seen this movie.
Like 100 times.
And it ALWAYS ends badly.
In real life this was just one of the doomsday scenarios that we addressed in mass casualty planning. The outcomes predicted were never very reassuring to put it mildly. And we all thought that weaponized small pox would be bad..?
Well, the problem with this kind of stuff is that once you know you have a problem, you’re already screwed, and a great deal of your first responders are already exposed.
Patrick,
This is the stuff that scares the hell out of me. Its like they were sitting around in their mad scientist labs one day, and one of them says “Hey! I have a great idea! How about we take something that is virulent and ugly, but hasn’t seemed to have made the leap to easy human-to-human transmission and fix that. It’ll be GREAT!”
Its just so exciting to see the ways that our knowledge outstrips our wisdom.
Perzactly!
There is only one solution…..
We’re going to have to nuke these “dutch” scientists from orbit
Will someone please shoot these “scientists” and incinerate their bodies along with their “lab.” Seriously.
Troy, you have to take Wisconsin with it. They had a team doing parallel research at the same time.
Any of them scientifical dudes named Randall Flagg??
*plays “Don’t Fear the Reaper”
But can you levitate???
Speaking of medicine and mad scientists, I see that little maggot Rutherford is making sport of Terri Schiavo again. Rutherford undoubtedly was one of the cheerleaders to pull the plug, though he says he is against “euthanasia.” Gawd, libs are so maddeningly pretentious.
So here’s my professional prognosis, just in case.
Well, if by chance Rutherford goes to bleeding out, leaking out, or shitting out, and if by chance Rutherford goes on life support for any reason, I cast my vote and loud voice to pull the plug, without water or nourishment. What’s fair is fair.
What goes around, comes around.
This is probably being done at the behest of the UN in order to expedite Agenda 21.
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