at that point half my class started to freak out, it was hilarious, our teacher had to spend 10 minutes calming them and explaining them that the chance it would happen is very small
I hope the scientists would only have risked this if the chance of this happening wasn't very small, but non existant. I don't know about that though.
Scientists as a whole (And I'm aware I'm generalizing and it won't apply to all) tend to be 'lab smart' but totally lacking in common sense. So I'd say there was a very GOOD chance they'd do it if they figured the risk was worth it to gain their ends - and ends tend to be everything to many scientists.
Which is why we should never allow scientists to run the world
