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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 2203946" data-attributes="member: 11697">The X-Files was a cool show... but there's not a conspiracy lurking behind every corner.And why bother. Smallpox/anthrax/plague etc are already a reality, easy to weaponize, and there's not much of a need to invest the time and money to genesplice to get something better/worse. Nature already did the unethical research for us.Sure I can think of evil unethical things: modified HIV or adenoviruses that are benign and nonfunctional except when triggered by proteins specific to certain populations of humans, then they go berserk either to kill the host or sterilize them by coding for a toxin that targets germline cells. Nobody in their right mind would even do preliminary work on such things regardless of money.Now if you think that either: 'The Man' / 'The Evil Empire' / 'Corporations' / PNAC are grabbing up scientists and working on doomsday viruses or transgenic mutants to rule after the apocalypse, stop watching horror movies and calm down. Evil geneticists aren't real so there's no need to be afraid of them. "There's plenty of real things to be afraid of. Like Super AIDS."</blockquote>