After reading Alina Chan and Mat Ridley's "Viral" it was clear to me that the preponderance of evidence points to a lab leak after Gain of Function (insertion of furan cleavage site) was performed on SARS viruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. A natural/zoonotic origin of Sars-CoV-2 lacks evidence where it is usually straightforward…
After reading Alina Chan and Mat Ridley's "Viral" it was clear to me that the preponderance of evidence points to a lab leak after Gain of Function (insertion of furan cleavage site) was performed on SARS viruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. A natural/zoonotic origin of Sars-CoV-2 lacks evidence where it is usually straightforward to find. As the article points out, the risks of Gain of Function research far outweigh the benefits. Gain of function research should be banned and the loopholes closed.
After reading Alina Chan and Mat Ridley's "Viral" it was clear to me that the preponderance of evidence points to a lab leak after Gain of Function (insertion of furan cleavage site) was performed on SARS viruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. A natural/zoonotic origin of Sars-CoV-2 lacks evidence where it is usually straightforward to find. As the article points out, the risks of Gain of Function research far outweigh the benefits. Gain of function research should be banned and the loopholes closed.