• Phil@awful.systems
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    3 days ago

    I don’t particularly care about whether COVID was a lab leak or not at this point: gain of function research was spectacularly stupid. It was entirely unclear how it was going to achieve anything of any positive consequence whatsoever except extending the careers of the researchers in question whilst putting the entire world at risk.

    Worst risk / benefit trade-off in biological sciences ever?