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1. austhr+(OP)[view] [source] 2021-06-04 06:45:07
Article gave me the impression that the Obama ban wasn't real. It included an "unless its important" exception and everyone just kept on doing it anyway.

>Inside the NIH, which funded such research, the P3CO framework was largely met with shrugs and eye rolls, said a longtime agency official: “If you ban gain-of-function research, you ban all of virology.” He added, “Ever since the moratorium, everyone’s gone wink-wink and just done gain-of-function research anyway.”

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2. texasb+dj[view] [source] 2021-06-04 11:12:10
>>austhr+(OP)
Wink wink, you/they should go to jail upon blatantly disregarding something meant to protect us.
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3. loveis+HP[view] [source] 2021-06-04 15:17:12
>>austhr+(OP)
>“If you ban gain-of-function research, you ban all of virology.”

This is an absurd strawman. If it were true, why have there been so many virologists calling GoF unethical and seeking to prohibit it?

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