I saw a post about this on Reddit this morning. Haven't looked into it further, but people were claiming that there are versions of this plague that have been modified to release other toxins. It's effectively a bioweapon: they cure you for the plague, which kills you with the poison it contained.

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A_D_E_P_T 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There are some that had been modified to release endorphins!

>"When we first heard Soviet scientists were inserting the endorphin gene [for euphoria] into plague," says Dr. Henry Heine, a former U.S. Army bacteriologist, "we were appalled. That they would purposefully engineer the Y. pestis bacteria to behave this way... to make you want to go out and socialize... this was some horrifying stuff."

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> Former assistant secretary of defense Andy Weber agrees. "I grew up thinking Reagan’s phrase ‘Evil Empire’ was an exaggeration," he tells us. "Then I learned what the Russians were doing [with biological warfare]." He pauses for effect. "It was evil."

The accounts are from Annie Jacobsen's notes in "Biological War".

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HillRat an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Jacobsen is also the author who claimed that the Roswell event was a Soviet plot to sow panic with an actual Nazi flying saucer piloted by genetically-engineered midgets, so I'd like to see a reputable source. (Having said that, bacteria upregulate selected interleukins to reduce inflammation, so maybe this is a game of telephone based on some actual Soviet effort to increase virulence, just not "euphoria.")

	▲	A_D_E_P_T an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I believe the same thing is also described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biohazard_(book)
	▲	Jtsummers 19 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> Jacobsen is also the author who claimed that the Roswell event was a Soviet plot to sow panic with an actual Nazi flying saucer piloted by genetically-engineered midgets And people take her seriously?

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pavel_lishin an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Reminds me of a David Brin short story.

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cobbzilla 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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penskymaterial 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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darkwi11ow 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Better than rt though

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jibalt 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Those two things are not alike, and the claim about Wikipedia is a blatant lie ... certainly it is vastly more reliable than you are. Other comments from you:

> there is a gatekeeping cretin in his basement hitting refresh to make sure he controls the world's definition for egg salad.

> Wikipedia is filled with ministers of truth.

Permanently muted and dismissed.

	▲	robotnikman 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Regarding Reddit, there is a lining of truth behind his claim (despite possibly being a troll based on account age). Someone years ago made a well written post about it on reddit (yes I know, kind of ironic) https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most... Also discussed on HN 5 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25600274 Things have certainly changed since the introduction of AI, but I still believe the status quo is mostly the same regarding people who create content or write content and people who passively consume it.
	▲	1234letshaveatw an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
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