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Experiments inside these labs can include what some commentators consider as gain-of-function, a hugely controversial branch of science that seeks to manipulate pathogens.
In an email, reviewed by The Times, health officials told him the proposal needed further review because it might constitute gain-of-function research.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/16/science/covid-lab-leak-research.html
In July 2021, Dr Fauci testified how his former department 'has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.'
“No, quite the opposite, I believe it in all probability brought about the largest pandemic our world has ever seen,” Redfield informed committee Chairman Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, who requested if gain-of-function analysis may have stopped a pandemic.
Source: https://basquiatstrings.co.uk/probably-caused-largest-pandemic-in-history-bt-news
Paul announced that he has issued an “official criminal referral” of Fauci to the Justice Department related to his denial and attempt to cover up the fact that the NIH was involved in funding gain-of-function research at the bio lab in Wuhan, China.
Source: https://patriotpost.us/articles/99286-tuesday-below-the-fold-2023-08-01
Shutting down dangerous gain-of-function research–by which I mean research designed to take a virus or bacterium and make it more deadly in humans or in other animals–would only affect a tiny percentage of virologists worldwide.
You’re not supposed to do gain-of-function research with viruses.
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/01/thomas-woods/hidden-camera-uncovers-pfizer-creepiness/
You want to call it gain-of-function, it really is not in many respects, but when it is, it needs to be very well-regulated.”