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This proposal appears to be nothing more than a broad survey involving sampling and screening. This does not culture anything or infect any animals or any such

• poopnugget 4y ago
• dTal 4y ago
  Sampling is also risky, as it involves traipsing around in bat caves taking samples, hopefully with adequate PPE, and then driving into big cities to study them. It's one of the possible vectors for Covid-19.
  • conception 4y ago
    True but it’s also how we found the SARS source. Knowing where infections are living has value.
• junofan 4y ago
  The guy just had a grant terminated for failing to turn over records.
  • m0llusk 4y ago
    There are multiple stories about what happened to that grant. Demands were made by the NIH suddenly and without precedent. Failing to meet those demands is what got the grant terminated. The motivations for the demands are apparently political rather than scientific and according to some are a "horrible precedent" that may break some explicit ethics rules about how grants and handled. This is particularly sad now that we have essentially proven that the wet market was the source of the virus. This was all about a made up narrative that was intended to serve political ends instead of being motivated by science and the quest for truth.