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Temporal Novice
Seriously? I am betting you had a hard time typing that while you were laughing. You don't actually believe what you are claiming, do you?
https://www.nap.edu/read/5708/chapter/2[/URL]https://www.nap.edu/read/5708/chapter/2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_virushttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_virus
It almost makes me think you wrote that specifically to wake me from my slumber. I am in the middle of grading senior projects for the end of spring semester right now, so yes I am busy. But not too busy to challenge silly statements.
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makes my point and not laughing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_virushttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_virus#Safety_concerns_and_regulation
Bio-hazard research limitations
The National Institute of Health declared a research funding moratorium on select Gain-of-Function virus research in January 2015.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_virus#cite_note-55[55] Questions about a potential escape of a modified virus from a biosafety lab and the utility of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_use_technology#Biologicaldual-use-technology, dual use research of concern (DURC), prompted the NIH funding policy revision.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_virus#cite_note-56[56]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_virus#cite_note-57[57]
GMO lentivirus incident
A scientist claims she was infected by a genetically modified virus while working for Pfizer. In her federal lawsuit she says she has been intermittently paralyzed by the Pfizer-designed virus. "McClain, of Deep River, suspects she was inadvertently exposed, through work by a former Pfizer colleague in 2002 or 2003, to an engineered form of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lentiviruslentivirus, a virus similar to the one that can lead to acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_virus#cite_note-58[58] The court found that McClain failed to demonstrate that her illness was caused by exposure to the lentivirus,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_virus#cite_note-59[59] but also that Pfizer violated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistleblower_protection_in_the_United_Stateswhistleblower protection laws.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_virus#cite_note-60[60]
I consider wisdom as the ability to ignore what can be accomplished in favor of deciding whether it should be.
I wish there was something for scientists equivalent to financial world "Past success does not guarantee future performance."
Maybe "Safe in a controlled petri dish does not guarantee safe in the uncontrollable real world?"
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