Ok that is totally made up.
There are plenty of reasons that researchers make dangerous pathogens that have nothing to do with ethnic cleansing.
Some of these methods even get published despite the risks that the knowledge presents https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.10875
Are you saying literally no one at all wants this? Just that there are also other reasons to do the research? Something else?
My concern is that there aren’t just altruistic research directors. There are funders. There are politicians. There are militaries. There are covert agents. And I get really concerned how easy it is for actors with less savory, noble intentions to coopt naive researchers into participating in a larger agenda.
It’s super convenient for everyone to be able to have the plucky, innocent, earnest research director come out with shining optimism about the potential. And it’s a convenient reason not to totally slam the brakes on research that, for better or worse, may lead (may have led) to global pandemic.
There were alleged leaks from a whistle-blower from the CCP regarding developing bio-weapons that targeted specific gene sequences attributed to certain ethnicities.
https://guardian.ng/features/health/bioweapons-designed-to-k...
"A new report from Cambridge University’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk says that world governments have failed when it comes to preparing against threats like futuristic bioweapons powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and genetic manipulation. Such weapons would have to power to target specific DNA, and kill certain races of people leaving other swaths of the population unharmed."
Additional information from a biochemist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjfvHOcfEUQ
> There are plenty of reasons that researchers make dangerous pathogens that have nothing to do with ethnic cleansing.
Such as? The article you posted merely states that it is possible and that they "wish" it will lead to more vaccine research, without saying how.
This is literally the purpose of gain of function virology research. Modify bugs in ways that could be seen in nature and explore vaccines and treatments.
There are no reasons to believe the mutants created in laboratories will arise in nature nor that the vaccines or treatments will be effective compared to what nature does. Added to the fact that GOF research never produced any kind of meaningful treatment or response so far and given how they are dangerous and leaks happen all the time; they should be outright banned.
The research should not be done because it has not proven to provide beneficial treatments.
Because otherwise there are no valid reasons to create this kind of pathogens in labs; the chance the bugs created there will be similar to the naturally occurring ones are basically none and even less so that the vaccines or treatment will be or remain efficient treatment.