Endonuclease fingerprint indicates a synthetic origin of SARS-CoV-2

Re:Endonuclease fingerprint indicates a synthetic origin of ... by Traubenfuchs on Thursday October 20, 2022 @04:17PM (#33280117)

So biotech companies secretly manufacturing illnesses that are just deadly enough to the old and sick to cause international panic and then offering the cure or vaccination for it is now a totally possible scenario, or even something to expect?

Maybe the the latest international slightly more infectious and STD-like monkeypox wave was another example of this? It certainly lead to a lot of vaccinations...

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Re:Endonuclease fingerprint indicates a synthetic origin of ... by ishche on Thursday October 20, 2022 @04:24PM (#33280185)

Isn't it enough infections already to sell tons of drugs, why to design the new for this case?

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Re:Endonuclease fingerprint indicates a synthetic origin of ... by Ancapistani on Thursday October 20, 2022 @04:54PM (#33280552)

Well, if you own the patent on the only approved drug for the condition, it would make financial sense.

NOTE: I am emphatically not asserting that this is the case with SARS-CoV-2. I am only responding to the parent comment's criticism of a possible financial motive for hypothetical biotech companies to purposefully engineer pathogens for profit.

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Re:Endonuclease fingerprint indicates a synthetic origin of ... by mrkramer on Thursday October 20, 2022 @04:49PM (#33280492)

>So biotech companies secretly manufacturing illnesses....

They are not but they profit from lab leaks liked Covid.

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Re:Endonuclease fingerprint indicates a synthetic origin of ... by KoftaBob on Thursday October 20, 2022 @05:20PM (#33280895)

More likely it's academic laboratories doing reckless gain of function research because it keeps the grant money rolling in, and in Wuhan Lab's case, they also half ass the safety precautions.

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