Trailer Snark

Ok, I can just about understand how someone who sees a blurry picture of a canvas sided trailer with a biofermenter in it might just possibly worry that it could be used to make warbugs rather than boring old molecular hydrogen for balloons

BUT... how could the media and US public possibly take seriously a comment that it could be "used to make anthrax or smallpox"!?

Now, I ain't a biologist, and I ain't brave enough to make stuff like that without something more solid than canvas around me; but how could any half-educated person seriously think that anthrax and smallpox were both possibly produced in these things.
The two are nothing alike.