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criticalmass2

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    Comment #35916221

    The purpose of the research was to contribute to our understanding of emergent viruses. I mentioned several other contributions of that class of research, namely vaccine and antivi…

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    Comment #35916071

    Quoting Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases: "Some want to pass a law: All gain-of-function should be stopped. But if al…

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    Comment #35903874

    Can't tell if this is a serious question, but the answer is: yes, obviously. Without the decades of research the death toll would have been orders of magnitude higher. Consider the…

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    Comment #35903457

    The downside would be no vaccines for any diseases, as all vaccines are derived from "gain of function" research. There is also not conclusive evidence that this latest pandemic wa…

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    Comment #35903195

    The term “gain of function” is used by different people in different ways. It is a broad category of research and the misguided attempts to categorize it as dangerous in one broad …

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    Comment #35902939

    This has nothing to do with bioweapons. The reality is that throughout all of human history, viruses have evolved organically in the environment in such a way that they are infecti…