Gain-of-Function experiments involve taking a relatively benign virus and adding factors to it that can make it more dangerous. In this interview, Stuart Newman, Ph.D., professor of cell biology and anatomy and founding member of the Council for Responsible Genetics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, discusses the pros and cons of whether these types of research should be banned.
Historically, these experiments were banned temporarily in 2014 when the funding for them was suspended. But Dr. Anthony Fauci’s agency, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, rescinded the ban in 2018. Latham weighs in on the possibility that the coronavirus and COVID-19 might have originated from these Gain-of-Function experiments.
“These are very complex systems,” Latham says, “and if you put something simple into a complex system that wasn't there before — like genetic engineering the crops for example — you can get all sorts of poisons being unleashed that weren't there before but are induced by the new engineered form.”
SOURCE: Bit Chute June 2, 2020
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