This article started getting too doom-is-coming-y for my tastes and the bullshit meter hit 100. Lol immune to anti-biotics. Yea ok buddy, not like can't engineer an anti bio-tic for this specifically.

Such bullshit. Zero sources cited.

Just FYI, Venter's "synthesized" organism is a Mycoplasma- it was chosen for the sole reason that it has a tiny genome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycoplasma_laboratorium

A tiny genome means no genes for virulence factors, which means it has less propensity for pathogenicity than any of the myriad other seaborne bacteria that were already there.

This article is bullllllllshitttttttt