Criticism of China’s virus research ignores similar threat posed by West

We should criticize “appallingly irresponsible” behavior of all governments actively engaged in producing biological warfare agents. According to a report published by The Independent on May 2, scientists are criticizing China for engaging in dangerous influenza virus research. The scientists accuse the Chinese researchers of “appalling irresponsibility” and state there is danger a new laboratory created strain of bird-flu virus mixed with human influenza may escape and create a global pandemic killing millions of people. A former British government scientist and president of the Royal Society, Lord May of Oxford, denounced the Chinese effort. “They claim they are doing this to help develop vaccines and such like. In fact the real reason is that they are driven by blind ambition with no common sense whatsoever,” May said. “The record of containment in labs like this is not reassuring. They are taking it upon themselves to create human-to-human transmission of very dangerous viruses. It’s...