>Pretty sure these things will escape from the lab at some point.
Yes. That should be the assumption. No matter how good the safety procedures are, they are implemented by people. People not only make mistakes, they can be subborned, become suicidally depressed, resentful against the world in general, all sorts of things.
It seems to me that the most important thing is to learn defence against the dark arts, not the dark arts themselves. i.e. vaccines/countermeasures, not bioweapons.
Saying 'there must be no safer way to do the research' is begging the question, since research is about finding new ways of doing things and looking at things.
Personally I find it disturbing that if I search for 'free games' and then put 'torture' in the search box I find children's games devoted to torture. OK, nobody is being hurt, and I'm aware many boys like to pull the wings off insects, and so on. But it seems wrong that creativity and funding are going into supplying this sort of thing.
Plenty of genuine reviews are rubbish though. A good review explains what's good about the product or content. You can then judge according to that explanation and disregard the source.
Yes. That should be the assumption. No matter how good the safety procedures are, they are implemented by people. People not only make mistakes, they can be subborned, become suicidally depressed, resentful against the world in general, all sorts of things.
It seems to me that the most important thing is to learn defence against the dark arts, not the dark arts themselves. i.e. vaccines/countermeasures, not bioweapons.
Saying 'there must be no safer way to do the research' is begging the question, since research is about finding new ways of doing things and looking at things.