> It gets worse - gain of function research was banned under Obama until the ban was lifted in 2017 under Trump It was never really "banned", there was a morat

> It gets worse - gain of function research was banned under Obama until the ban was lifted in 2017 under Trump It was never really "banned", there was a moratorium on such research after a string of safety lapses in US laboratories, moratorium's are always only of a temporary nature [0]. The often mentioned "GoF research" involving bats with US participation and funding, didn't even fall under that moratorium [1]. > you have Fauci making the case for creating viruses in a lab Of course he would make that case, because that's a useful tool to have in research. No offense, but trying to make this out as something so binary and only bad, reminds me a lot about the more radical and clueless takes on GMO that see "All GMO as bad". [0] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/10/17/357010964/u-s-to-temporarily-halt-funding-for-controversial-virus-research https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/10/17/3570109... [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.18787 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.18787