by Steve Watson, Summit News:
“This is the stuff of nightmares”
A prominent British scientist has warned that a new pandemic could be let loose on the world by “deranged” people with unsafe laboratories.
Astrophysicist Lord Martin Rees made the comments while speaking in the House of Lords this week, noting that enhancements in biotechnology mean it is now much easier for rogue actors to obtain, manipulate and enhance a pathogen.
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Rees, a former President of the Royal Society, said that the COVID pandemic “is not the worst that could happen” by a long way, further noting that “we need to contemplate a societal or ecological collapse that would be a truly global setback.”
“A leakage from the Wuhan lab cannot be ruled out” as the origin of the COVID pandemic, Rees continued, adding “We cannot rule out lab leakages in the future,” and “there is surely a case for enhancing security and independent monitoring of level four labs around the world which are researching these lethal pathogens.”
“And, more importantly, ensuring that experiments on lethal pathogens are not done in less-secure labs,” Rees urged.
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“The real nightmare will be a deranged loner with biotech expertise, who does not care who becomes infected or how many,” Rees further warned, adding “biotech involves small-scale, dual-use technology that will become easily accessible.”
“There are thousands of academic and industrial labs around the world where dangerous pathogens are being studied and modified. An increasing number of individuals will acquire the requisite expertise,” he continued.
“The dangers are looming ever larger; regulation of biotech is needed ever more today… This is the stuff of nightmares,” Rees further declared, adding that “The rising empowerment of malign, tech-savvy groups, or even individuals, by biotech will pose an intractable challenge to governments and aggravate the tensions between freedom, privacy and security.”
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