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It's good they're being overcautious here. The alternative is far worse.
The alternative of... saving lives?
Didn't you know? Lab work being a skill is fake news. Jimmy Schoolshooter can make a couple of kilos of Anthrax in an afternoon with our cool genie.

Remember to buy the IPO!

It doesn’t take too much apparently to tweak a virus
They don't want the real risk of someone using it to make biological or genetically targeted weapons, and they don't want the social risk of someone asking it a bunch of leading questions in order to 'prove' some racist thesis or to 'prove' Mythos is woke if it declines to along with their performative inquiry.

Let's face it, if some rando comes up to and asks if you have a few minutes to talk about population biology there's a good chance they're a kook.

The alternative of not hyping the IPO enough
Will someone think of the children