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yawnmaster

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20. Again people fear what they don't understand and that site tries to monopolize on that...

Reply to Milliesmom (Original post)

Tue Sep 22, 2015, 01:53 PM

Sep 2015

this is a viable virus in nature. should it not be understood, especially since more are likely to become uncovered?

And the research on this particular virus has already been done and it does not infect human cells.

would one rather find out a newly discovered virus infects humans only after it has infected a human in an uncontrolled environment? (not just a human cell in a plate).

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Scientists Are About To Resurrect A 30,000-Year-Old Virus �To Discover If It Is Harmful To Humans� [View all] Milliesmom Sep 2015 OP

Science Bad!! CBGLuthier Sep 2015 #1

Potential weapon, they always want weapons. LeftOfWest Sep 2015 #2

The permafrost in the Russian tundra is pretty much destined to melt at this point. Lyric Sep 2015 #3

I read many years ago that scientists had discovered live tuberculosis bacilli in Cal33 Sep 2015 #6

Absolutely agreed. Thank you for the post. Xyzse Sep 2015 #11

Totally agree. If we do not study it and the permafrost melts jwirr Sep 2015 #23

Doesn't scare me. I'm excited to live in the age of science. Nailzberg Sep 2015 #4

Better to do it in the lab and find out TexasProgresive Sep 2015 #5

It's only scary stuff for the ignorant FLPanhandle Sep 2015 #7

I'm still recovering from the Moon bombing. Bonx Sep 2015 #22

Fantastic! This is called learning. Codeine Sep 2015 #8

Commie Zombies!! Whiskeytide Sep 2015 #9

Sometimes I love science. And sometimes... Baitball Blogger Sep 2015 #10

That is a story that has been exaggerated by your linked source. MineralMan Sep 2015 #12

"true activist" sounds like a real legit place to get information from snooper2 Sep 2015 #13

It's a clickbait site, full of hypberbole written by MineralMan Sep 2015 #15

I've seen enough "Doctor Who" episodes to know that this might not be a good idea (nt) Nye Bevan Sep 2015 #14

Uh, Doctor Who is a fictional television show with MineralMan Sep 2015 #16

That's what Star Trek is for! Glassunion Sep 2015 #19

urrite! But the Walking Dead is right also lunatica Sep 2015 #25

Zombie Apocolypse incoming! n/t Calista241 Sep 2015 #17

The scientific version of Runningdawg Sep 2015 #18

Again people fear what they don't understand and that site tries to monopolize on that... yawnmaster Sep 2015 #20

Ohnoes! Sky Falling!!! Everybody Panic!!! Glassunion Sep 2015 #21

The mystery of the Walking Dead plague solved! lunatica Sep 2015 #24

Well, it's organic, so it must be good Orrex Sep 2015 #26

Science is not for pussies... TlalocW Sep 2015 #27