Is Gain-of-Function Research a ‘Risk Worth Taking’? Or ‘Insanity’?
Virologist Shi Zheng-li, left, works with her colleague in 2017 at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where some believe COVID-19 originated. (Photo via Getty Images)
A lab leak in Wuhan may have led to the outbreak of Covid. So what were scientists doing there? And why?
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For years, our officials—from Anthony Fauci on down—maintained that Covid-19 probably originated from a natural pathway in Wuhan, China. Bats in a wet market, some said.
But according to a new report, the U.S. Energy Department believes the virus likely escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology before going on to kill millions around the world. The FBI
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