[etiam]

Correct.

And the really, really bad part about abusing natural parts if the immune system to provoke pathogen resistance against them is that the resistance will target part of natural immunity.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35700881

[0xDEAFBEAD]

Don't viruses evolve to evade the immune system anyways though?

[etiam]

Normally they don't get to try that with a strong selection pressure for a handling a particular monoculture.

Admittedly the method in the present article is probably better than the idiocy of extracting antibacterial peptides from context for use as drug products, since at least this will always be used in the context of a full immune system and they trigger a number of genes which probably regulate a whole subcomponent of measures rather than just one or two mechanisms.

Even so, it lifts up a particular part from the diffuse field of defenses as salient and particularly worthwhile to defeat.

Also, keep in mind that many species of virus have so small genomes they have to overload the readings of parts of the nucleic acid sequences to get a full set of proteins.

Evolve to evade the immune system, certainly. But if you're implying that it will happen in the same ways, at anything like the same rate and to the same extent regardless of what we do, no that's not right.