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Could it ever be used maliciously? Supposedly some countries are poisoning people via Polonium and inducing heart attacks: https://citizentruth.org/cia-heart-a
by bhouston 7y ago
Could it ever be used maliciously? Supposedly some countries are poisoning people via Polonium and inducing heart attacks: https://citizentruth.org/cia-heart-attack-gun/ https://citizentruth.org/cia-heart-attack-gun/
- gruez 7y agoWhat's the advantage of that compared to poisoning people with regular poisons or diseases?
- vikramkr 7y agoAnything can be used maliciously. But it's way harder to make an bioweapon an bioweapon out of crispr than it's worth. And it's not like you'd have any particular advantage from using crispr, I guess you could load a bunch targeting some essential gene into an AAV and spray it on people but it's probably easier just to wait for the flu virus to mutate and do its thing.
- 420codebro 7y agoPerhaps genetic-targeted weapons? Eg, I want to create a virus that only affects black people (or whatever group said person hates). Or even more specific, eg, I want to create a virus that only targets one person (maybe.. A President of a country?) Scary stuff when this stuff starts becoming realized.