GOF research is not "worth the risk" because it serves no public health purpose. The idea that a random mutation in the wild, or a bioweapon unleashed by an adversary, will exactly or almost exactly match what we have come up with is vanishingly small. And with current techniques, we can genetically analyze any new pathogen in a matter o…
GOF research is not "worth the risk" because it serves no public health purpose. The idea that a random mutation in the wild, or a bioweapon unleashed by an adversary, will exactly or almost exactly match what we have come up with is vanishingly small. And with current techniques, we can genetically analyze any new pathogen in a matter of days and then craft vaccines and/or treatments.
GOF serves two purposes: (1) It gives researchers a great toy to pay with to get publications, and be big shots with their research budgets. And, (2) to produce bioweapons while denying that is what you are doing.
That is it.
Fauci, Collins, Daszak, the Chinese "Bat Lady" (Zheng Shi, iirc) and others are guilty of at least negligence and at most mass murder, and plenty in-between.
GOF research is not "worth the risk" because it serves no public health purpose. The idea that a random mutation in the wild, or a bioweapon unleashed by an adversary, will exactly or almost exactly match what we have come up with is vanishingly small. And with current techniques, we can genetically analyze any new pathogen in a matter of days and then craft vaccines and/or treatments.
GOF serves two purposes: (1) It gives researchers a great toy to pay with to get publications, and be big shots with their research budgets. And, (2) to produce bioweapons while denying that is what you are doing.
That is it.
Fauci, Collins, Daszak, the Chinese "Bat Lady" (Zheng Shi, iirc) and others are guilty of at least negligence and at most mass murder, and plenty in-between.