News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Polio Is on the Brink of Eradication. Parent comment

Re:Polio Is on the Brink of Eradication by pyuser583 on Thursday November 23, 2023 @11:51PM (#38400740)
Yeah there was an X-Files episode where the CIA gathered DNA via polio vaccines.

Which means someone at the CIA said, “Hey that thing that happened in the X-Files, let’s do that but for real!”

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Polio Is on the Brink of Eradication by smegger001 on Friday November 24, 2023 @06:41AM (#38402949)
It doesn't inspire confidence when your spy agencies start stealing ideas from the villain spies who got caught in a TV show from the 90s
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Polio Is on the Brink of Eradication by slavik81 on Saturday November 25, 2023 @01:14AM (#38411630)
Wasn't it the Smallpox Eradication Program?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Polio Is on the Brink of Eradication by pyuser583 on Saturday November 25, 2023 @11:49AM (#38414609)
That may have been it!

Spoiler:

It was the one where Mulder finds his sister’s record, then tears off the name to see his own underneath.

I doesn’t really matter though. The real world CIA vaccines were against Hepatitis B.

[ Parent | on HN ]