… that could not have existed unless they made it. Their excuse was that by making it they’d learn how to treat it when people became ill with it.
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Dodgy gain-of-function research? Who, us? St. Anthony Fauci (blessed be his name) and Francis Collins in the Washington Post in 2011 writing under the telling headline, “A flu virus risk worth taking“:
Two recent studies co-funded by the National Institutes of Health have shed light on how this potentially grave human health threat could become a reality. Working carefully with influenza viruses they have engineered in isolated biocontainment laboratories, scientists in Europe and the United States have identified several mechanisms by which the virus might evolve to transmit efficiently in the ferret, the best animal model for human influenza infection. This research has allowed identification of genetic pathways by which such a virus could better adapt to transmission among people. This laboratory virus does not exist in nature. . .
Given these uncertainties, important information and insights can come from generating a potentially dangerous virus in the laboratory. . . Safeguarding against the potential accidental release or deliberate misuse of laboratory pathogens is imperative.
Well done, guys. You ended up creating the very thing you said you were aiming to avoid.
Collins has recently retired. Why does Fauci still have a job?