Scientific progress goes.... "Oh, That was dumb."

[brimer]

Below are different links for your next nightmare.

From the Journal Science

From the New Scientist

From Scientific American

This on is from Gizmodo its fun to read.

This is a good topic for the debate on is there such a thing as good or bad knowledge. 

Comments

[paulomatic]

That Scientific American article makes it sound like the guy did it on a dare.

"It wasn't until 'someone finally convinced me to do something really, really stupid,' Fouchier said,..."

That sounds like a diplomatic way of saying he got into some macho-scientist drunken argument in a bar, and wound up betting he could get the avian flu to weaponize itself.

It is without sarcasm that I declare that I fucking love science.

[brimer]

Me too.

[brimer]

Also I love the fact that he is getting flack for wanting to publish the paper because then the bad guys may some how develop it for nefarious uses, but in the Sci. Am. article he says how he did it.

The old tried and true forced selection method. Works every time.

[paulomatic]

Yeah, I noticed that, too. I was hoping there was actually something more complex involved in that.

I mean, shit...I can give ferrets diseases in my own garage!

[corkwis]

So this is where you and your vaunted "science" have gotten us. Way to go.

You never hear about accountants developing debits and credits that could, conceivably and inevitably, KILL HALF THE POPULATION OF THE EARTH.

Sure, we may embezzle some. Hell, we may embezzle a LOT, but we do NOT KILL HALF THE POPULATION OF THE EARTH.

Seriously, you all suck.

Dicks.

[paulomatic]

Dude, have you even MET half the population of Earth? Fuckin' scientists are on the right track, man.

[corkwis]

Ummm, no. No I have not.

Have YOU met roughly 3.5 billion people?

[paulomatic]

Well. No.

But that's not the point. I can extrapolate based on the representative sample of people I HAVE met. They're jerks.

Jerks who deserve to be infected by bird-ferret viruses.