These 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.
devwastaken · 7h ago
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.
Llamamoe · 2h ago
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.
Federal 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.
yieldcrv · 9h ago
don'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
feoren · 9h ago
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.
dyauspitr · 8h ago
I wish the Democrats did borderline evil things like deny healthcare to people that supported a party that is anti science.
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.
A good reference article.
coronavirus responsible came from GOF work at a lab in Wuhan, China,
that had received NIH funding.