ECONOMY

Evaluating the Risks of Engineered Viruses and Bacteria, aka ‘Mirror Life’


Yves here. Perhaps I will not be the only one to find the level of concern expressed in this article to be grossly inadequate compared to the hazards. Even though the author points out the risk of ruin, as in the survival-of-species level danger that engineered viruses and bacteria pose. Yet the tone of the piece is weirdly anodyne. Is he afraid of sounding like a crank? Strident alarms are entirely warranted with violations of the precautionary principle.

See Nassim Nicholas Taleb for a short technical take:

By Michael Kay, a professor of biochemistry in the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at University of Utah. Originally published at Undark

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