We should think twice before ending relations and ending trade with China.
You would get a lot more with honey than you will with vinegar.
This is about the business of science with China, this will disturb our relations with China if anybody questions this.
They believed it did not come from nature.
This is incredibly important and needs congressional oversight on the select agents, but also on the Gain-of-Function.
The ones that have been vocal about this and talked a lot about have been the DOE, which has more scientists than any ot...
We should never ever listen to people like that.
We want you to doctor it up and even be more strong, because we are making a political point here.
That does not sound to me like open-mindedness, and I wonder what you would tell a younger researcher...
This virus showed up immediately, very transmissible in humans as if it had been preadapted in a lab.
But arguing against that is they tested 90,000-some-odd animals, and there is no animal host that's been found.