aricene@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•Officials bust illegal lab containing 20 infectious agents, hundreds of lab mice
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1 year agoWhat’s the worst that could happen? The spread of some horrible zoonotic disease that brings that world to its knees? That hardly seems likely.
Investors will absolutely hand over money to front men making bad, even obviously insane, promises, though. People are always more easily manipulated than they like to believe, but people who’ve convinced themselves they’re infallible titans of industry are even more vulnerable to it. (Especially the ones who think that they see through the scam and won’t be left holding the bag.)