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Could you make a genetically targeted weapon
The Guardian ^ | 28 oct 2004 | David adam

Posted on 02/23/2021 9:39:19 AM PST by delta7

Rather than specifically triggering the toxic effects of organisms such as anthrax, the Sunshine project warned that weapons based on a new medical technique called RNA interference could shut down vital genes. If the sequence of the target gene varies between two different populations the technique could be used to interrupt key body functions in one population and not the other. "If as little as 10% or 20% of a target population would be affected, this would wreak havoc among enemy soldiers on a battlefield or in an enemy society as a whole," the group said.

Others say the concerns are exaggerated. "Trying to find a weapon that affects quite a few of one ethnic group and none of another ethnic group is just not going to happen," says David Goldstein, who studies population genetics at University College London. ...

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


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To: delta7

Great point


21 posted on 02/23/2021 10:19:34 AM PST by servantboy777
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To: delta7

The vaccines have NOTHING to do with targeted biological warfare. Really, stop with the stupid. It burns.


22 posted on 02/23/2021 10:21:09 AM PST by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick )
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To: Republican Wildcat

“These RNA vaccines open the door to targeted biological warfare”

**Absolutely zero similarity...and they are specifically mRNA vaccines.*

Whereas I think targeted biological warfare is unlikely for scientific reasons, your comment above is scientifically ignorant.

The technology of introducing RNA in to cells is similar, to use your term.

Don’t make pronouncements you know nothing about.

It’s one thing to rationally address unfounded fears, it’s another to make scientifically incorrect statements, which is what, in your ignorance, did.

Ok, traitor?


23 posted on 02/23/2021 10:22:26 AM PST by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: packagingguy; Fedora

Of course Putin did. This propaganda doubtless comes from him through the Sunshine Project, which is in turn associated with the National Lawyer’s Guild, a communist organization.

The NLG is also known for its now deceased infamous member, lawyer Lynne Stewart, also known as Abdurahman the Blind Sheikh’s “Secret Dove” for her aiding the terrorist in communicating with his terrorist group in Egypt when it carried out the Luxor Massacre.

The Sunshine Project’s Ed Hammond has appeared at the NLG ‘s Seattle chapter as a lecturer.


24 posted on 02/23/2021 10:24:13 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: rellic

>>The problem with using genetics to eliminate what YOU find undesirable is the un-intended consequences. <<

I heard a DNA biohemist discussing why designer kids (for example) are all but impossible. He used the very simple example of the same gene that causes Sickle Cell Anemia also is the protection against Malaria. If that gene did not exist, Malaria would have no governor and would wipe out whole swaths of people.

And that is one of literally millions of combinations of desirable/undesirable/undetectable genetics.


25 posted on 02/23/2021 10:25:16 AM PST by freedumb2003 (No matter what, resist and stop the agenda of blow bidet and hairass the whore)
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To: delta7

Google Aschen Alliance


26 posted on 02/23/2021 10:26:21 AM PST by maro (MAGA!)
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To: All

Why Black and Hispanic residents are more likely to become infected by the coronavirus.

Historical practices embedded in health care, structural racism and high-risk jobs contribute to the pandemic’s disproportionate effects

https://www.google.com/search?q=Black+and+Hispanic+residents+are+more+likely+than+white+residents+to+become+infected+by+the+coronavirus+and+Black+residents+are+more+likely+to+die+from+it&rlz=1CAMWDF_enUS930&oq=Black+and+Hispanic+residents+are+more+likely+than+white+residents+to+become+infected+by+the+coronavirus+and+Black+residents+are+more+likely+to+die+from+it&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i64&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8


27 posted on 02/23/2021 10:29:32 AM PST by Grampa Dave (History, as we know it, is written by the winners not losers! Who is rewriting our history, now????)
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To: delta7

The American population is pretty genetically diverse. It would be difficult to tailor a disease to target Americans and not have spill-over to the rest of the world. Also, as far as I know, a conservative gene has not been identified.

If you are making something to kill a person or family It would be a lot of costly research, lab work and testing to create such a weapon for such a limited population. There are easier ways to kill people.

You need to think a little harder before posting this garbage.


28 posted on 02/23/2021 10:33:54 AM PST by toast
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To: eastexsteve

Sickle cell also affects some people of Mediterranean descent. It’s an adaptation to malaria. Those with one recessive are resistant to malaria, those with both can develop sickle cell, but are very resistant to the malaria plasmodium.


29 posted on 02/23/2021 10:37:09 AM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: delta7
"Trying to find a weapon that affects quite a few of one ethnic group and none of another ethnic group is just not going to happen,"


30 posted on 02/23/2021 10:37:44 AM PST by null and void (We, MSM, decide what news you can see, and what you can not see, don't you dare call us Not-Sees)
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To: delta7

Weeellll....

There’s “women”...


31 posted on 02/23/2021 10:40:47 AM PST by HKMk23 (The days of my sojourn have been few and evil; I have not attained to the stature of my forebears.)
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To: Grampa Dave
In brief, blacks and Hispanics are on average poorer than whites, live in more crowded multi-generational housing, and tend to have jobs that cannot be done remotely and have high contact with many other individuals.

Racism has almost nothing to do with it. If you corrected for whites with a similar socio-economic conditions, there's probably little difference.

32 posted on 02/23/2021 10:41:54 AM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: delta7

There was a novella about such a genetic weapon which targeted Chinese. They sent a female taikonaut to a large asteroid. She steered it to Earth. Instant ELE. Bad Idea.


33 posted on 02/23/2021 10:42:22 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: delta7

THIS is exactly the situation i foresaw as the goal of the ‘vaccinations’ containing known dna signatures


34 posted on 02/23/2021 10:45:34 AM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style )
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To: Republican Wildcat

https://www.localmemphis.com/article/news/investigations/i-team/memphis-doctor-believed-to-have-died-of-rare-covid-related-syndrome/522-7bb29487-c330-4de4-b1b0-188fe3865e35

Note that the mRNA treatment creates a distinct antibody differing from the natural virus antibody.

It is not beyond the realm of possible for a known adversary to create another virus targeting the new antibody and drive an antibody dependent enhancement type reaction. May not be probable. idk, but certainly possible.

Coronavirus’s have been notorious in driving ADE. Dengue fever vaccine caused ADE when exposed to natural virus. cat tests on earlier mRNA vaccines did too when exposed to a natural virus. Every cat in the testing died.

Again, not saying this will happen, but we are talking about a low risk virus (for most people) and a low risk/ high consequence treatment.

My own MIL died 2 months ago from Covid. I understand fully the risk for the elderly and people with co-morbidities.


35 posted on 02/23/2021 10:46:54 AM PST by zek157
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To: T.B. Yoits
That was the bluster of Crack Cocaine.
36 posted on 02/23/2021 10:47:54 AM PST by wgmalabama (Tag line for rent. )
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To: ifinnegan

mRNA can only be used to create a protein. If you want to kill somebody, there are vastly easier and cheaper ways to do so.

What exactly do you think you can do with mRNA that you can’t do with a bullet?


37 posted on 02/23/2021 10:50:46 AM PST by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
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To: piasa

The Sunshine Project also came up here on an anonymously sourced April 2009 disinfo article [from an obscure website that no longer exists] on Obama’s trip to Mexico City and the swine flu outbreak there.


38 posted on 02/23/2021 10:53:49 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: zek157
"Note that the mRNA treatment creates a distinct antibody differing from the natural virus antibody."

How, exactly? How is the antibody different? Structurally? Chemically?

What causes the difference? Is it related to dendritic cell uptake? Lymphatic T-cell activation? B-cell activation?

"Coronavirus’s have been notorious in driving ADE. Dengue fever vaccine caused ADE when exposed to natural virus."

Dengue fever is caused by Dengue virus, which is in the Flaviviridae family of viruses, not even remotely related to coronaviruses. And Dengue fever ADE isn't caused by vaccines. It's caused by exposure to one serotype of Dengue virus followed by immune response, followed by infection with another Dengue virus of a different serotype such that the antibodies present are non-neutralizing.

39 posted on 02/23/2021 10:57:40 AM PST by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
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To: delta7

What? According to the FR medical professionals the vaccines are perfectly safe and we should take them without question.

The vaccine companies are pure at heart and anyone who differs with that are evil conspiracy theorists who want old people to die from the virus.


40 posted on 02/23/2021 11:00:25 AM PST by Rebelbase (COVID misanthrope)
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