100 sats \ 3 replies \ @CheezeGrater 24 Jul 2022 \ on: NIH [2011]: "insights can come from generating a potentially dangerous virus.” bitcoin
When done openly and with proper oversight and safety measures, the knowledge gained from this kind of research is exactly what is necessary to prevent and combat future highly contagious diseases.
Doing research like this in controlled environments saves us having to experience a full blown pandemic to learn the lessons we need to learn to prevent future pandemics.
Knowledge is always a double edged sword, the same guy that gave us a chemical method for creating nitrogen fertilizer, allowing billions to eat, also developed chemical weapons that killed millions...
Sure, I'll grant you all that. Even if that were true, who decides what experiments need to be done? The "experts" who have gotten everything absolutely wrong for the last two years? Who decides how many billions go into these projects? Where does this money come from? Why can't we use this money to feed poor children in our country instead? Do you vote to elect any of the people in charge of the NIH? How much oversight do you think is realistic in a massive bureaucracy that has actively demonstrated a lack of competence?
To not ask these questions and simply trust the "experts" is against everything that Bitcoin teaches us.
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I absolutely agree, I am of the opinion that this research needs to be done, but not the way it has happened thus far.
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I appreciate your honesty :)
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