There are few times I support censorship. If this isn't one, it skirts awfully close.
Scientists seeking to fight future pandemics have created a variety of “bird flu” potentially so dangerous that a federal advisory panel has for the first time asked two science journals to hold back on publishing details of research.
In the experiments, university-based scientists in the Netherlands and Wisconsin created a version of the so-called H5N1 influenza virus that is highly lethal and easily transmissible between ferrets, the lab animals that most closely mirror human beings in flu research.
Of all the boneheaded, brain-deadened, cluelessly arrogant things to do...you weaponize a disease there is no current cure for?????
Have you lost your fucking minds?
Look, you want to understand and study how pandemics work in order to prevent the next one, that's fine. Find a disease that there is some chance of curing, in the event it somehow escapes the lab (accidentally or on purpose.) Chicken pox. The measles. Christ, weaponize the common cold if you have to!
But the avian flu, which is already a highly lethal disease to humans???
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