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Illegal medical lab discovered near Fresno, 20 potentially infectious agents

41 points by donsupreme 3y ago

callalex 3y ago
Fair warning: the website linked is definitely known to the state of California to cause cancer, including auto-playing videos that fill half the screen obscuring the text you are trying to read.
hoppyhoppy2 3y ago
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36933655 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36933655 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36914487 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36914487 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36910189 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36910189 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36921530 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36921530
aaron695 3y ago
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bmitc 3y ago
Who was paying for all that? What was the purpose of such an illegal lab to have all those poorly managed equipment, mice, samples, chemicals, and viruses?
dublin 3y ago
It's just amazes me that so many people are in a lather over the "dangers" of AI, when the dangers of biotech are literally several orders of magnitude greater. Bill Joy was right - biotech is by far the most dangerous technology ever developed, and the greatest threat to human survival. (The dangers of AI running amok are pretty near zero, since almost everything in the world is NOT controllable by networked computers, even today - and there's an easy fix, even if an AI did turn evil and start distributing itself: Just go Glactica on it by going back to dumb/dis/loosely connected systems. It's really almost always a better architecture, anyway, from every point of view but subscription revenue...)
pfdietz 3y ago
Infectious agents like E. coli! Imagine if everyone had access to that. What a shitty situation that would be.
- gmerc 3y ago
  Also americans: Covid came from a Chinese lab, they are hiding something! lol
  - rg111 3y ago
    The lab does have strong connections to China. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna96756 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna96756 https://californiaglobe.com/articles/mysterious-chinese-covid-lab-uncovered-in-city-of-reedly-ca https://californiaglobe.com/articles/mysterious-chinese-covi... https://twitter.com/Jkylebass/status/1685250307154948098 https://twitter.com/Jkylebass/status/1685250307154948098
  - djohnston 3y ago
    The only name mentioned is Wang Zhaolin. Seems pretty… Chinese. Would you agree?
    - gmerc 3y ago
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- vGPU 3y ago
  Sure, but also HIV, hepatitis, and other nasties. This article appears to be a more poorly written copy of one that was posted earlier that went into more detail. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36927096 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36927096

41 points by donsupreme 3y ago

Fair warning: the website linked is definitely known to the state of California to cause cancer, including auto-playing videos that fill half the screen obscuring the text you are trying to read.

hoppyhoppy2 3y ago

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36933655 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36933655 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36914487 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36914487 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36910189 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36910189 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36921530 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36921530

aaron695 3y ago

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bmitc 3y ago

Who was paying for all that? What was the purpose of such an illegal lab to have all those poorly managed equipment, mice, samples, chemicals, and viruses?

dublin 3y ago

It's just amazes me that so many people are in a lather over the "dangers" of AI, when the dangers of biotech are literally several orders of magnitude greater. Bill Joy was right - biotech is by far the most dangerous technology ever developed, and the greatest threat to human survival. (The dangers of AI running amok are pretty near zero, since almost everything in the world is NOT controllable by networked computers, even today - and there's an easy fix, even if an AI did turn evil and start distributing itself: Just go Glactica on it by going back to dumb/dis/loosely connected systems. It's really almost always a better architecture, anyway, from every point of view but subscription revenue...)

pfdietz 3y ago

Infectious agents like E. coli! Imagine if everyone had access to that. What a shitty situation that would be.

gmerc 3y ago
Also americans: Covid came from a Chinese lab, they are hiding something! lol
- rg111 3y ago
  The lab does have strong connections to China. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna96756 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna96756 https://californiaglobe.com/articles/mysterious-chinese-covid-lab-uncovered-in-city-of-reedly-ca https://californiaglobe.com/articles/mysterious-chinese-covi... https://twitter.com/Jkylebass/status/1685250307154948098 https://twitter.com/Jkylebass/status/1685250307154948098
- djohnston 3y ago
  The only name mentioned is Wang Zhaolin. Seems pretty… Chinese. Would you agree?
  - gmerc 3y ago
    [flagged]
vGPU 3y ago
Sure, but also HIV, hepatitis, and other nasties. This article appears to be a more poorly written copy of one that was posted earlier that went into more detail. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36927096 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36927096