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smallmancontrovyesterday at 5:17 PM2 repliesview on HN

It was dishonest then for you to imply that readily accessible commercial labs didn't take reasonable precautions and it's dishonest now, too.


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estearumyesterday at 5:38 PM

Define "reasonable precautions"?

Here's a red team exercise where researchers successfully bought fragments of the best known pathogen in the world, never mind a novel one.

What reasonable precautions failed to catch this but we could expect to catch a novel virus that "kinda looks like" a known virus?

https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/08/shouldnt-be-easy-buy-syn...

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