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It was dishonest then for you to imply that readily accessible commercial labs didn't take reasonable precautions and it's dishonest now, too.

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• estearum 2mo ago
  Define "reasonable precautions"? Here's a red team exercise where researchers successfully bought fragments of the best known pathogen in the world, never mind a novel one. What reasonable precautions failed to catch this but we could expect to catch a novel virus that "kinda looks like" a known virus? https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/08/shouldnt-be-easy-buy-synthetic-dna-fragments-recreate-deadly-1918-flu-virus/ https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/08/shouldnt-be-easy-buy-syn...
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  • smallmancontrov 2mo ago
    So shredding, mutating, and reassembling the genome is the minimum bar to slip it past the scanning? I thought you said you could just order it?
    • estearum 2mo ago
      This may have flown past you, but we’re commenting on an article about trivially creating novel pathogens The shredding, mutating, reassembling is all it took to get the most well known pathogen in the world by the controls that you are suggesting are sufficiently tight