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Comment author: James_Miller 29 September 2014 05:20:39PM 19 points [-]

I liked this comment from Rudolf Winestock

The plague that will wipe out most of humanity won’t be some super pathogen that’s immune to modern pharmacology, it’ll be an easy-to-treat pathogen so situated in the vector/target space that dealing with it rationally would make politically powerful groups howl.