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Lab leak doesn't necessarily mean it was man made. They were storing coronavirus samples from all over the world here, it could have been a contamination accid
by kjaftaedi 5y ago
Lab leak doesn't necessarily mean it was man made.
They were storing coronavirus samples from all over the world here, it could have been a contamination accident, yet still a "lab leak"
We've always known humans do dangerous things, the takeaway is that you need safety procedures to mitigate risk.
The scandal that needs to be addressed is the dangerous experiments being done in BSL2 conditions and every country deciding their own tolerance for safety.
These are internationally supported and funded projects. There is no excuse for the stakeholders not to be on the same page about safety procedures.
- disambiguation 5y agoI guess my underlying question is whether or not some areas of research should just be absolutely off-limits. MKUltra, for example. Other human experimentation. What if a physicist discovered the math to create black holes and wanted to test it; could any theoretical benefit be worth the known risk? Maybe it can be justified if the experiment is done in deep space, far from earth. Perhaps the same is true of gain of function, it should be studied on a moon facility instead of in or near a densely populated city? On the other hand, the highest form of safety is not doing it in the first place, which happens to be cheap compared to a moon base.