[Slighted]

People are responding to you snarkily, but there's real value in preserving every species that exists, including gain-of-function research (Assuming it isn't conducted by idiots, no malicious motivations in the people conducting the research, and isn't kept in secrecy). The worms may be symbiotically beneficial to humans in some unknown, complex way, or could possess unique biological processes/elements that could be of medical significance. Additionally, having their genetic information in a large database WILL provide useful general biological and evolutionary information.

[robertlagrant]

> Assuming it isn't conducted by idiots, no malicious motivations in the people conducting the research, and isn't kept in secrecy

With those assumptions, many more things would be fine!

[Gibbon1]

I read that when they took the last wild condors into captivity they thoughtlessly deloused them without any thought that their lice would be of any interest.