Watch all the funding dry up and the researcher get framed for some random, stupid crime, with just enough prison time to make sure he won't see the inside of a lab again before he's too senile to use it or dead. Could also be a slip in the tub etc.

There's a lot of money in suffering, and if you think there aren't people sick enough out there to do real horrible shit to protect that income stream, you're kidding yourself.

How do you think this fucked up civilization was twisted into the giant pulsating tumor it currently is?