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Yes, they should stop potentially lethal research procedures to see how they can prevent them. Its not rocket science.

• pc86 5y ago
  The above comment is idiotic, yes, but so is this response by France. She cut herself while cleaning a blade, something that doesn't seem so wildly uncommon that an entire nation should stop research on an entire class of diseases because of it.
  • nemetroid 5y ago
    Your reasoning seems backwards to me. If she had hurt herself through some unlikely and intricate series of events, a shutdown would have made less sense.
  • riffraff 5y ago
    I believe the issue is that the kind of precautions they're using were based on some assumptions (e.g. that mouse prions do not affect humans) which were flawed and need to be re-evaluated. It's not just "don't cut yourself, duh".
  • nosianu 5y ago
    That was not the case that prompted this reaction, so I don't understand the reasoning behind your comment? The case that prompted this reaction is described in the first paragraph of the linked article. The one you refer to in the second one as an older case. There is no mention of the older case having lead to any shutdowns, making it hard to follow your train of thoughts, since you specifically refer to this older case.
  • smolder 5y ago
    Maybe researchers who kill themselves with dangerous infectious agents are a sign that precautions are inadequate and deserve scrutiny.