Man Made Virus to Wipe out half of humanity! (Your already dead) - Polidicks

[QUOTE=certified;33470358]Science isn't about why, its about "Why not!"[/QUOTE] Human extinction, for one.

Usually I think the reason real life is never as bad as the movies is because people aren't as stupid as they are in the movies, but wow, what the fuck.

[QUOTE]Daniel Perez of the University of Maryland in College Park says publishing will generate more biosecurity, not less[/QUOTE] But, but...It's for the security! You bet they already have a vaccine by the time they make it public. Make something terrible, do some mass propaganda about how deadly it is, and then when people are scared shitless, You offer them the vaccine [I]at a price[/I]. I smell medical corporations seeking to make a profit out of legal terrorism once again. But just wait for one of these nonsensical creations to end up in worse hands than these.

Shit reminds me of Deus Ex.

Nononononono no no Science, I hate you today. Please burn that virus and the method of making it. NOW!

[QUOTE=Katatonic717;33470318]"Bill! Bill! Bill![/QUOTE] BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY yeah i dunno

Title gave me a heart attack.

what the fuck destroy it dummies

"How can we waste funds today... cure cancer? AIDS? No way let's make another deadly disease instead!!"

If academics are [i]still[/i] arguing about it, then there must be a damned good reason for the research that the headline isn't telling us. Seriously guys, this is [i]Sensationalist[/i] Headlines. You're not [i]actually[/i] supposed to take the headline at face value. [quote]However the very same data, if made available to the scientific community, could potentially allow humanity to prepare for an H5N1 pandemic, which Fouchier’s study has shown to be far more probable than was previously believed. Clamping down on freedom of information in the scientific domain may in the end leave us defenseless against the flu, should it arise naturally.[/quote] This happens quite a lot in the media - the main objectives of a new product, research, or study become secondary to the attention-getting material. This is what media is designed to do: grab your attention.

[QUOTE=dogmachines;33469148]Why even consider releasing the recipe? Why even do this period?[/QUOTE] Security through obscurity might as well be none at all. Release the recipe, the medical community will find a cure/immunization before the ill-funded terrorist community can turn it into a weapon.

I'm only disappointed that it won't turn people into zombies :(

[QUOTE=Jawalt;33472390]Security through obscurity might as well be none at all. Release the recipe, the medical community will find a cure/immunization before the ill-funded terrorist community can turn it into a weapon.[/QUOTE] Why even take that gamble?

Well, it's a good thing we aren't ferrets.

[QUOTE=SwissArmyKnife;33472523]Why even take that gamble?[/QUOTE] because it could arise in nature anyway and we'd be fucked? if you read the article at all you'd know that all of 5 genes that they had to change each exist in nature, just not together. [editline]28th November 2011[/editline] i swear this is probably the dumbest responses i've read on facepunch in a long time.

What the actual fuck?!

It should be destroyed any knowledge pertaining to the virus should go with it.

[QUOTE=asb44;33472662]It should be destroyed any knowledge pertaining to the virus should go with it.[/QUOTE] whens the book burning?

[QUOTE]. It was created by Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands[/QUOTE] I blame it all on those weed smoking no good hippies!

That's good, maybe now we can get Madagascar.

[QUOTE=Kybalt;33472543]because it could arise in nature anyway and we'd be fucked? if you read the article at all you'd know that all of 5 genes that they had to change each exist in nature, just not together. [editline]28th November 2011[/editline] i swear this is probably the dumbest responses i've read on facepunch in a long time.[/QUOTE] Let's break it down. In either scenario if the virus was released it would be devastating. Scenario one the formula is released publicly for worldwide scientific research, and let's say several terrorist organizations or ne'er-do-well countries begin research into creating their own strains. So begins the race to beat the people trying to release or obtain the strain for malevolent purposes. Scenario two the formula isn't released and the world is gambling on whether or not the strain forms in nature or found through research somewhere else. What I'm saying is it's a shit bet either way. It should be researched so an immunization can be found, but it should be done in a controlled environment where only the people that need to see it and research it do so. Just flat out publishing the methods of creating the virus is just creating a problem we don't need to deal with.

I want to know why the fuck they made it in the first place.

[I]now we gonna need peter patrelli ;) to save the world # [IMG]http://static.tvfanatic.com/images/gallery/peter-petrelli-wallpaper.jpg[/IMG] [/I]

what the hell is this a joke? [editline]28th November 2011[/editline] why would anyone come up with such a dangerous virus let alone even consider publishing the recipe?

[B]if you can get the virus to jump from ferrets to human while retaining lethality and infectivity, you'd be able to 'create' a flu virus with similar characteristics without needing to know this research[/B] calm down guys

[QUOTE=Contag;33472995][B]if you can get the virus to jump from ferrets to human while retaining lethality and infectivity, you'd be able to 'create' a flu virus with similar characteristics without needing to know this research[/B] calm down guys[/QUOTE] I like how they experimented/put it on ferrets, considering I have two walking around constantly.

I'll be blastin like they're zombies n shit

Creating virus with mass killing capabilities, just because :v:

Now is the time to frown at science.

And then zombies.