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Why did Republicans lift the ban on creating lethal viruses? [View all]
I mean, WTF?
A Federal Ban on Making Lethal Viruses Is Lifted - Dec. 19, 2017
Federal officials on Tuesday ended a moratorium imposed three years ago on funding research that alters germs to make them more lethal.
Such work can now proceed, said Dr. Francis S. Collins, the head of the National Institutes of Health...
...Critics say these researchers risk creating a monster germ that could escape the lab and seed a pandemic...
The New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/health/lethal-viruses-nih.html
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