To be fair to the scientists, if some stupid anarchist group hadn't broken in and released non-tested virus, the mutation would have been caught in trials, but the mishandling of it afterward? Yeah, that's pretty on them and our lovely government. The last thing we would've needed was wizards.
Maybe you just don't know the math yet. Two hundred years ago, we didn't know the speed of light, and we keep finding mathematical symmetries whenever we study things.