"[F]rom..first reports of..outbreak in Wuhan, it took..a nanosecond..to consider..link to..Wuhan Institute of Virology. Only two other labs in..world, in Galveston, TX, and Chapel Hill, NC, were doing similar research..It’s not a dozen cities..It’s three"
"'If you ban gain-of-function research, you ban all of virology,' an unnamed longtime agency official told the magazine. 'Ever since the moratorium, everyone’s gone wink-wink and just done gain-of-function research anyway.'"
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"The…freeze in US-Russia relations shows occasional, promising cracks…During the UN General Assembly…Trump announced an initiative to address one of arms control's most intractable problems: verifying compliance with the Biological Weapons Convention."
"'[M]y administration will lead an international effort to enforce the biological weapons convention…,' Trump said. He framed this as an urgent priority, claiming 'many countries are continuing extremely risky research into bioweapons and man-made pathogens.'"
"The proposal found immediate endorsement in Moscow. Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov offered unusually direct support, calling the initiative 'brilliant in itself' and declaring that 'Moscow supports it.'"
"[R]eckless experiments…gave us a devastating global pandemic. Yet despite that…catastrophe, many countries are continuing…risky research into bioweapons and manmade pathogens…[M]y administration will lead an international effort to enforce the Biological Weapons Convention."
--Research on biological weapons agents, including genetic modification of biological weapons agents to increase their deadliness, is occurring worldwide.
--Research on biological weapons agents, including genetic modification of biological weapons agents to increase their deadliness, caused the COVID pandemic, killing 20 million and costing $25 trillion.
The NYT today ran a column by its columnist Lydia Polgreen claiming that "Suggesting a transgender link to Kirk's murder is as awful as it is dangerous."
In other words, the NYT now openly affirms its belief that accurately reporting facts is "as awful as it is dangerous."
This affirmation by the NYT that it prefers its readers be misinformed--or at minimum uninformed--about facts unfavorable to its favored views explains much of the last half-decade's reporting in the NYT.
"[A]ccidental bioaerosol dissemination has triggeredlaboratory-acquired infections…[T]his study elucidated…diffusion of leaked bioaerosols…The [tech at biosafety cabinet]…consistently posed…highest risk, with infection probabilities…up to 19.9 %"
"A facility classified as...BSL-2 + can offer a biosafety level that is higher than a BSL-2 but lower than a BSL-3...This study aims to investigate the diffusion characteristics of bioaerosols within a BSL-2 + and assess the infection risks of laboratory technician"
(BSL-2+ is the biosafety level of the research in Wuhan that caused COVID, killing 20 million and costing $25 trillion.)
"Effective immediately, NIH will [t]erminate funding and other support for projects, including unfunded collaborations/projects, meeting the definition of dangerous gain-of-function research conducted by foreign entities in countries of concern"
"Effective immediately, NIH will...[s]uspend all other funding and other support for projects, including unfunded collaborations/projects, meeting the definition of dangerous gain-of-function research"
""NIH will not be accepting requests for exceptions to terminations or suspensions if deemed to meet the Executive Order’s definition of dangerous gain-of-function research."
"The UNC-Wuhan collaboration sought to create…genetically modified SARS coronaviruses having…a…'furin cleavage site' associated with enhanced transmissibility and virulence."
"The evidence suggests that UNC midwifed a virus that killed 20 million"
"In 2018, UNC-Chapel Hill, in collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and EcoHealth Alliance...applied for, and were awarded, a five-year $3 million grant from the NIH to construct novel bat SARS-related coronaviruses having enhanced pandemic potential."
"Also in 2018, UNC-Chapel Hill—again in collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and EcoHealth Alliance—applied for a $14 million grant from the US Defense Advanced Research Programto construct novel bat SARS-related coronaviruses having enhanced pandemic potential."