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What would you call a lab which studies and looks to defend against diseases which could be weaponized?
by thepasswordis 5y ago
What would you call a lab which studies and looks to defend against diseases which could be weaponized?
- whimsicalism 5y agoBSL-4 CDC labs have smallpox, that doesn't make them bioweapon labs.
- ashwagary 5y ago>that doesn't make them bioweapon labs. Actually it does. Any lab that works on viruses of mass destruction are bioweapon labs with a trivial amount of objective shift.
- thepasswordis 5y agoUm, yes it does? The reason those labs keep smallpox around is to study it as a bioweapon. Here's an article from 2007 about the CDC shutting down a "bioweapons lab" at Texas A&M University: https://www.wired.com/2007/07/the-centers-for/ https://www.wired.com/2007/07/the-centers-for/ Texas A&M wasn't creating bioweapons, they were studying them as part of a bioweapons defense program.
- seanmcdirmid 5y agoA lab? Are there even many labs that are studying things that cannot be weaponized?