“The Daly Report” with Kay Daly!
Kay’s Guest tonight is Tim Graham form the Media Research Center
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And once you get into recombinant viral agents (such as what these guys are working on, or what the Soviets used to research in their lab-cities) you end up playing with what could easily be a global bane if the right (read wrong) set of circumstances came together.
I would not be concerned if they were playing with bacteria ....but genetically modified viruses worry me ....a lot. I have seen the effects of Marburg (a relative of the ebola virus that has similar effects on the human body ....read: bodily fluids oozing from every pore and black vomit ....black vomit is when a person sloughs off the internal lining of their stomach and gut and vomits it forth ......it is black hence the name).
The scientists should know that with the world's citeis being totally congested and transportation between continents a mere several hours that a viral plague would spread like wildfire. And chickens always go home to roost, meaning the US would face this woe as well.
This was detailed in Demon in the Freezer ..... it may come down to just making an islampox and going for it.
Unless one's goal is to reduce world population to levels mandated by Kyoto protocols, I can't imagine any reason to genetically engineer virii that cannot be immunized against.
The sheer stupidity of this is absolutely staggering. Researchers have also recently exhumed corpses who died from the 1918 flu to weaponize, er, study it. The flimsy cover story is that these researchers are genuinely concerned that a bunch of third-world, towel-wearing terrorists will have the capacity to splice genes and create population slashing diseases, so they need to pre-emptively develop the same thing to guard agaist it...The likelihood of splicing a virus the same way someone else would to weaponize it seems ludicrously small.
Obviously the more likely scenario would be terrorists BUYING some of these things from a lab/researcher making the evil things in the first place.
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Interleukin 4 is a well-known immune system regulator and is widely researched for its effect in such diseases as asthma. I know of at least two therapeutic approaches for that disease under testing now for human application that involve IL-4.
This genie's long out of the bottle. The point is - why is the New Scientist suddenly making a new issue out of this? Why are they trying to blame the U.S. government for it?