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If it clearly outweighs the risks can you provide a study showing this? I can't seem to find any.


Here's [1] a reasonable one. That list should be considered far from comprehensive, as it's extremely safe to assume that many events end up buried, especially given all of the grey-tier legality bio research happening in far off shores, researching who knows what.

But looking at the reported events (that have made their way onto Wiki), since 2000 we've had lab leaks and "incidents" in the US (repeatedly.. to say the least), Japan, Taiwan, China, Russia, UK, Australia, France, the Netherlands, and many more places. That includes incidents at BSL-4 labs, the highest biosecurity rating. And the leaks/incidents involve some pretty crazy stuff: polio - lab worker was infected without anyone's knowledge, ebola - lab worker infected at a BSL-4 lab, smallpox - vials of active smallpox found casually laying around in cold storage at a rando facility, anthrax - 75 exposed, and more.

It seems completely obvious from the absurd volume of reported incidents that we're bee-lining to a global biosecurity accident, almost certainly far more serious than COVID, completely of our own making, again.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity...


I can always rely on someone to here to make a useless comment demanding a study, thinking they have a point


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Who is the interest being paid to?


Don't use meta products. The end


Another elitist article telling us we are happy with lower standards of living


The problem is that people are losing faith in our institutions


This reminds me of having to disable pihole for my wife because she is shopping and wants to click on the ads


This is great news for mice with Alzheimer’s


Don’t be so heartless. I’m sure there are lots of them than there are humans.


Maybe not so many mice will develop their peculiar breed's brand of Alzheimer's. It is hard to believe there can be more than 10M of those at any time. Their entire lineage could disappear in a year without continuous support, and then no mice would suffer it.


Good point, I was off by several orders of magnitude.

Clearly the most ethical thing to do is to “destroy the village in order to save it”


Another damage control article lol.


Can we get an example of gain-of-function research helping us in any way?


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