Bioterror scare won’t halt advance of science

IN response to your editorial headlined ‘Scientific advances – Is man ready to play God?’ (May 22), you seem to believe a new era of bioterrorism is upon us.

Don’t fret – bioterrorism has always existed. A simple example was in medieval times – catapulting pestilent corpses over city walls whereby the besieged populations would succumb to the diseases present in the corpses.

So, in that regard, this sensationalist approach screaming for legislation to inhibit the propagation of synthetic biotherapies is unfounded. If making or designing a biological therapy was so simple the few major players in this field worldwide wouldn’t exist (Pfizer, Astra Zantec, IPSEN, etc).