let me explain...
this is from the article HWT posted:
Quote: " The proposal to genetically engineer smallpox, which would also permit smallpox genes to be inserted into related poxviruses and the unlimited distribution of small segments of smallpox DNA, poses a large number of public health, biosafety, and biological weapons risks. "
They wanna insert the smallpox's DNA into an organism (most probably a bacteria). this bacteria will then be researched. if the bacteria were leaked it could easily spread throughout the world and infect many other organisms including us since our bodies tolerate a small about of bacteria anyway. the bacteria when in a host organism can then easily express the viral DNA i.e. carry out the functions of smallpox and therefore cause smallpox all over again maybe even more potently.
Quote: " Maybe if you looked into what they're actually planning on DOING with the viris you'd be less inclined to start threads like these. "
i have and i can tell you with experience that it's not good (BSc. Medical and Applied Biotech). Genetics and DNA is something that simply can't be controlled by us enough to harness it's power. a good analogy is jurassic park especially the fact that they were able to create more movies based on the same concept since such problems die more than once.
Quote: " If they're creating cures and whatnot... why the hell not? "
because even investigation into genetics is uncontrolled no matter how "controllable" the government say it is. curing a disease using a virus THAT IS ALREADY VERY POTENT definately means that there's some bs ahead.
For when they said I couldn't, I did...
