I know, Whit. I've read a lot of them too. That's what worries me about this stuff.
Our gummint made weaponized anthrax, but that couldn't fall in the wrong hands, could it.
No matter how ethical these dudes are, they publish their research including the blind alleys they went up that might be of value to unethical people. You know like, when I did this it didn't work because it produced a poison that one drop would kill a billion people.