'Too late' to contain research into deadly bird flu strain, warn scientists

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  1. doctorie
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    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/...o-deadly-bird-flu-strain-warn-scientists.html

     
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    This idea that terrorists have the ability and resources to modify organisms is absurd.
     
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    The movies say its possible!
     
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    at the risk of moving into political arguments, thats not really the real argument.
    The scientific work is finished, its financing the reproduction and implementing the instructions that are detailed in scientific journals that is the next steps. That just requires a few motivated and reasonably intelligent individuals that believe in the cause, or are coerced into action. If you think this isn possible, you are sadly mistaken. It happens all the time.

    The cell phone network the Mexican cartels is a fantastic example of what happens when organizations are underestimated. look it up.
     
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    Not even on the same level. You should be more concerned about nuclear capable states, like Iran or North Korea, attempting this.
     
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    Or a zombie Apocalypse!
     
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    Depends on what you consider a terrorist.
     
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    thread back from the dead here...

    but yeah, precisely the point I was making weeks ago om this thread.
     
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    Couldnt the terrorists just obtain samples of the strain rather than try and duplicating it? Also, fuck yeah its possible. I saw that shit on 24!
     
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    Not that, for one.
     
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    Eh, it's obvious there's going to be a lethal pandemic within the next few years. Anyone read The Hot Zone? Stories like this are just drumming it up to that event. Let's get it over with already.

    Problem: Too many people in the world
    Solution: Deadly strain of H5N1 released into the wild

    Not really helping matters by intentionally labeling every thread as political. It is not. What's happening is threads getting locked by reminding some goof that OMG PLOTICISS!!!!!111one
     
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    hehehe sorry. I shall stop trollolololing all over horses that have literally had the living shit beat out of them until dead, brought back from the dead, and then raped and beaten back to death. I just feel bad for the horse..
     
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    dude ..... obvisously if Tom Hanks can carry anti-matter in a small case in a movie, then this biology stuff must be a cake walk .....