The name-calling and derogating in this thread is surprising and disappointing.
For more than a decade, a substantial chorus of the world's foremost experts in the relevant disciplines have been calling for an end to gain-of-function research. This isn't some sudden trend, or a misinformed knee-jerk reaction.
This is the result of patient deliberation and research building an irrefutable case, which has made convincing empirical inroads unto near academic consensus.
To refer to organizations like Cambridge WG as "chuckleheads" is really beneath what I hope is our standard on HN.
If you haven't already, I suggest thumbing through this abbreviated list of publications and reports, and look at the pre-COVID19 warnings issued by researchers at every elite institution of medical research in the world:
For more than a decade, a substantial chorus of the world's foremost experts in the relevant disciplines have been calling for an end to gain-of-function research. This isn't some sudden trend, or a misinformed knee-jerk reaction.
This is the result of patient deliberation and research building an irrefutable case, which has made convincing empirical inroads unto near academic consensus.
To refer to organizations like Cambridge WG as "chuckleheads" is really beneath what I hope is our standard on HN.
If you haven't already, I suggest thumbing through this abbreviated list of publications and reports, and look at the pre-COVID19 warnings issued by researchers at every elite institution of medical research in the world:
https://www.cambridgeworkinggroup.org/pubs.html