This wasn’t an incident where the world nearly ended, but it’s insane how close it could have been, if things went screwy. In 2011, Dr. Yoshihiro Kawaoka was studying the H1N1 bird flu, and for some f#cked up reason, wanted to modify it so it could bypass the human immune system.

He got close to making a humanity-killing superflu, before someone decided it was too risky for the human race.

Ya think?