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Paper On Super Flu Strain May Be Banned From Publication

Posted by Unknown on from the secret-dolphin-plot-to-overthrow-opressors dept.

Pierre Bezukhov writes with this excerpt from an article at Doctor Tipster: "A Dutch researcher has created a virus with the potential to kill half of the planet's population. Now, researchers and experts in bioterrorism debate whether it is a good idea to publish the virus creation 'recipe'. However, several voices argue that such research should have not happened in the first place. The virus is a strain of avian influenza H5N1 genetically modified to be extremely contagious ... created by researcher Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Netherlands. The work was first presented at a conference dedicated to influenza that took place in September in Malta."

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  1. Re:Peh. by Deep+Esophagus · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I wonder what effect this will have on the Doomsday Clock?

  2. Re:Peh. by SlippyToad · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    wtf has the doomsday clock got to do with climate change?

    Because all intelligent adults recognize it as a threat to the continued existence of our civilization, that's why. Since it is in fact already happening and already damaging large sections of our ecosphere, and may run away at some point if unchecked and re-map our entire climate.

    But, hey just keep listening to that fat retard Rush Limbaugh and hoping it will go away.

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    One day I feel I'm ahead of the wheel / the next it's rolling over me / I can get back on / I can get back on
  3. Re:Peh. by JoeMerchant · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Rush Limbaugh and hoping it will go away.

    Limbaugh listeners aren't hoping it will go away, they are certain that it is all a lie, a liberal plot to get grant money to study the problem and other such nonsense. There's no need to hope for the tooth fairy to go away, is there?