SCIENTISTS TRYING TO REVIVE HORSE POX

You Would Think They Had Something Better to Do

Is their any reason to do this other than to say "We did it"?

How do they reason it away?

The Canadian professors, meanwhile, shot back at their critics - arguing that smallpox was bound to be synthesized at some point anyway.
(https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-14/scientists-freaking-out-over-pandemic-potential-genetically-engineered-smallpox)

Source: ZeroHedge by TylerDurden