And it's even more plausible this is just a marketing play to build hype. Take, for example, you just made some new super-pathogen in your basement lab. It could kill everyone on the planet. This is obviously pretty dangerous, so do you:

A) silently dispose of it and hope nobody else ever makes the mistake of creating it.

or

B) keep it in the freezer and hold a press release about how you made it but it's too dangerous to share any details.

That would require a for-profit corporate entity to be motivated by public safety. I can suspend my disbelief to some degree, but that's too far.

This isn't the first time someone has spoken like this. It won't be the last. It's 100% marketing.

I have a bridge I'm selling....