Originally Posted by kwg020
Originally Posted by The_Real_Hawkeye
There needs to be a mandatory death penalty for this sort of research.
It's the new atomic bomb. Dropping a nuke gets the whole world upset. Let a virus out and it sneaks up on the world while big pharma rakes in billions.

kwg
Nixon prohibited this research under the name germ warfare, but the CIA concocted the plan to continue it under the pretext of germ warfare defense, which wasn't prohibited. They just do germ warfare research pretending they are creating deadly germs just so they can develop vaccines for them in case an enemy develops the same thing. They also intentionally create them so they don't look created, i.e., so they look natural, the only possible purpose for which is nefarious.