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People dont call it the way it should be called: "gain of function" is basically biological weapon research. You make a new disease and (supposedly) try to fin
by rvba 5y ago
People dont call it the way it should be called: "gain of function" is basically biological weapon research.
You make a new disease and (supposedly) try to find a treatment for it. Yet somehow we dont hear about new vaccines or drugs found in those labs.
Since research on biological weapons is banned by conventions - bad actors try to overcome this by using non military labs.
Russia had Biopreparat who tested multiple viruses and bacteria and then made warheads to deliver them (long after it was banned). USA's Reston "accident" with monkeys also looks like reaserch on ebola. China makes "gain of function" in Wuhan, sometimes 300 meters from the wet market testrd as place of origin of the COVID19 virus.
What is gained here? Only military can gain something.
Those scientists are enemies od humanity - making biological weapons, but nobody will do anything about that. Because supposedly this research can lead to new drugs. Well... where are those new drugs or vaccines?
China, Russia and probably USA have those labs - a lot of money is spent, yet all real vaccines and drugs come from private labs. Not military.
You can read Ken Alibek's book on his work as one of the heads of Russian biological weapons program (hidden as normal research): the guy got infected with a militarized strain of tularemia - and instead of reporting it and going yo quarantaine, he just took some antibiotics and called in sick. The negligence of someone who knows about bio weapons was astounding.
You cannot rule out that same did not happen in China. In fact the press points to it: gain of funcion done in BSL2 labs.
Not to mention that USA reasearchers are on China's payroll, what looks like plain treason.
- jakobnissen 5y agoNo, you can absolutely do gain of function research that is not dangerous. Gain of function merely means that you're adding some capability to a virus. It doesn't mean it has to be a virus capable of infecting humans. It doesn't mean it has to make the virus more virulent in vivo. It could be engineering bacteriophages to control resistant bacteria, for example.