[Opinion] How Virologists Lost the Gain-of-Function Debate - 3 Quarks Daily

How Virologists Lost the Gain-of-Function Debate - 3 Quarks Daily

M. Anthony Mills in The New Atlantis: As with so many other scientific controversies in our political life, public opinion on Covid origins has come to track — and serve as a signifier for — partisan identity. This bodes ill for dispassionate investigation, which we must have if we want to know the truth about what actually threw the world into chaos for years and killed 27 million people. At the same time, the controversy over Covid origins thr…

How Virologists Lost the Gain-of-Function Debate

(The New Atlantis) – As with so many other scientific controversies in our political life, public opinion on Covid origins has come to track — and serve as a signifier for — partisan identity. This bodes ill for dispassionate investigation, which we must have if we want to know the truth about what actually threw the world into chaos for years and killed 27 million people. At the same time, the controversy over Covid origins thrust into the cent…