>The research described in the pre-print aimed to understand The "aim" or the intention is entirely irrelevant. >If you want to classify this study as GOF the

>The research described in the pre-print aimed to understand The "aim" or the intention is entirely irrelevant. >If you want to classify this study as GOF then you might as well do the same with any study of a virus where even a point mutation is made - good luck doing any virology under those conditions. Good, let's stop mutating viruses in labs. Better to have no virology at all than to let these madmen continue to gamble with all of our lives.