DailyMail.com revealed the team had made a hybrid virus — combining Omicron and the original Wuhan strain — that killed 80 per cent of mice in a study.
The revelation exposes how dangerous virus manipulation research continues to go on even in the US, despite fears similar practices may have started the pandemic.
Playing God with viruses teaches us nothing about how these viruses evolve in the wild. Making new viruses yields no insight into viruses that exist naturally in the wild.
Anyone involved in gain-of-function research should be banned for life from every research institution, excluded from every peer reviewed publication, and exiled from the community of legitimate scientific researchers.
This abomination must never be considered acceptable in even the slightest degree.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
Let us be clear on something: gain-of-function research is not research. It is not science. It is stupidity coupled with hubris.
For faux scientists at Boston University to actually create by molecular engineering a new strain of SARS-CoV-2 that has a potential mortality of 80% is morally reprehensible.
Playing God with viruses teaches us nothing about how these viruses evolve in the wild. Making new viruses yields no insight into viruses that exist naturally in the wild.
Anyone involved in gain-of-function research should be banned for life from every research institution, excluded from every peer reviewed publication, and exiled from the community of legitimate scientific researchers.
This abomination must never be considered acceptable in even the slightest degree.