I HN-submitted the parent article originally. By way of demonstrating topic familiarity, I have a track record of submitting origns content to HN. (It usually f

I HN-submitted the parent article originally. By way of demonstrating topic familiarity, I have a track record of submitting origns content to HN. (It usually founders or gets user-flagged). I didn't guess that this one would garner quite so much attention. >I'd like for someone to throughly research and write about how it became taboo to discuss the virus leak theory IMO part of it was a lot of self-preservation instinct of biomedical research scientists, operating in the context of a calcified monopsony of a national funding organization. In other words, any biomedical scientist's legitimizing LLH too stridently would not necesssrily have healthy to one's grant fundng prospects. Caveating that 'none of the content of this comment necessarily reflects the opinion of BiosafetyNow', I also serve on BiosafetyNow's leadership team. BN was formed in the wake of the wagon-circling & gaslighting of the lab leak hyp. https://biosafetynow.org/ https://biosafetynow.org/ (Richard Ebright, mentioned elsewhere in the comments, is also on the leadership team. More familiar names are Colin Butler, & Milton Leitenberg). We recently released a petition to ban ePPP research (i.e. 'GoF') https://www.change.org/prohibit-ePPP https://www.change.org/prohibit-ePPP. It just passed 1000 signatures yesterday. I would love for concerned visitors to these comments to add their name. Despite that we advocate a simple ban today, our org has in its mission statement to see a moratorium on ePPP research until sufficent biosafety measures are put in place whereupon it becomes (highly) regulated ePPP researxh instead of out-and-out banned. The definition of 'sufficient' is not left to scientists alone to determine, and I contribute toward representing the non-scientist public to advocate for what should be considered sufficient biosafety measures.(Pro-tip: More representation of the non-scientist public remains needed here :) ) The nonprofit still operates on a shoestring budget, so if readers were inclined to help with that, it would be most appreciated. (Can also find origins censorship-themed merchandise which some folks might find fun :) ) If you'd like to volunteer your talents - software and otherwise - to BiosafetyNow's advocacy effort, it would be similarly most welcome.