FUD. People can always do something bad. Hiding information from them so they cannot do something bad such as recreating influenza from 1918 is a horrible idea in my opinion, and intuitively seems like an impossible task anyway.<p>"The invention of spiked clubs, triremes, longbows, gunpowder and all the other military technologies can be traced to the discovery of new information."<p>Well, I am splitting hairs here but it isn't really a "discovery" when you wake up one morning with a monolith in your front yard, a monolith that somehow helped you kick your neighbor's butt.