I disagree, I hope that lableak confirmation will push for a reassessment on the risk reward ratios for research. It may slow down scientific process, but we can now see that the dangers, if catastrophic enough, even if minimal, may not warrant it.
I can’t believe anyone would seriously say ‘it doesn’t matter how it happened.’ That’s like the NTSB holding a press conference and saying it doesn’t matter why the 747 crashed and killed 500 people.
They have to determine what happened so they can do root cause analysis and institute procedures to make this less likely to occur again.
People will rationalize any argument as long as their sacred cows are protected (we must defend SCIENCE it's under attack from the ignorant!) or enemies eviscerated.
