NIH suspends pathogen studies over 'gain-of-function' concerns
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Re: NIH suspends pathogen studies over 'gain-of-function' concerns
#2don't worry dismayed scientists, there are other paths of viral and microbial research you can focus on that can help humanity just as much if not more
Re: NIH suspends pathogen studies over 'gain-of-function' concerns
#3These chuckleheads probably don’t even know what this research entails but banning it makes their dimwitted followers excited. The state of the US right now is shameful.
Re: NIH suspends pathogen studies over 'gain-of-function' concerns
#4don't worry dismayed scientists, there are other paths of viral and microbial research you can focus on that can help humanity just as much if not more
Yes, let's all just change our career specialty every time the fascist cultists set their goldfish-level attention on another anti-intellectual "evil" that some lead-poisoned radio personality told them to get their anger fix from while shelling out supplements. A perfectly reasonable way to do science.
Re: NIH suspends pathogen studies over 'gain-of-function' concerns
#5I wish the Democrats did borderline evil things like deny healthcare to people that supported a party that is anti science.
Re: NIH suspends pathogen studies over 'gain-of-function' concerns
#6These chuckleheads probably don’t even know what this research entails but banning it makes their dimwitted followers excited. The state of the US right now is shameful.
thats the point. nobody knows how it all works, and by the time you think you do you youve killed people with it.
these attempts to play god always fall prey to the most basic sins. just because someone says they “want to do good” doesnt mean they effecticely can. humans cannot handle the power.
i dont believe in trading lives just so we can fund research grants.
Re: NIH suspends pathogen studies over 'gain-of-function' concerns
#7https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gain-of-function_research
A good reference article.
Re: NIH suspends pathogen studies over 'gain-of-function' concerns
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Re: NIH suspends pathogen studies over 'gain-of-function' concerns
#9These chuckleheads probably don’t even know what this research entails but banning it makes their dimwitted followers excited. The state of the US right now is shameful.
thats the point. nobody knows how it all works, and by the time you think you do you youve killed people with it. these attempts to play god always fall prey to the most basic sins. just because someone says they “want to do good” doesnt mean they effecticely can . humans cannot handle the power. i dont believe in trading lives just so we can fund research grants.
We know enough about how it works to make it safe, and everything else that we don't know, we learn through the process, to the benefit of our future as a species.
Re: NIH suspends pathogen studies over 'gain-of-function' concerns
#10Federal officials in 2014 paused 18 projects before releasing 2017 guidelines that allowed work to move forward. But the debate flared again during the COVID-19 pandemic, when some scientists and Republican politicians, including Trump, alleged that the
coronavirus responsible came from GOF work at a lab in Wuhan, China,
that had received NIH funding.