Gain of Function Research
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Why do the most ignorant have the most to say about it?
...and that Rand Paul, what a twat hairy bumhole.
...and that Rand Paul, what a twat hairy bumhole.
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I call bullshit - Alfred E Einstein
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Maybe he's still hoping to become president one day.
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Rand Paul? Isn't that loss of function?
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Yeah, what could possibly go wrong?
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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It already has. Gain of function research is a failed plot to distract freedom loving Americans. They were supposed to get so worked up about it that they'd never notice how the socialists were smuggling critical race theory into the social fabric, bringing about universal self-loathing, divisiveness, transgendering and the destruction of family values.
It went wrong because right thinking Americans are not that easily fooled. Well, not for long anyway. They have already realised that voting for Biden was a big mistake. It'll be Trump again in 2024.
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Those dastardly DemunistsHermit wrote: ↑Tue Jan 18, 2022 1:36 amIt already has. Gain of function research is a failed plot to distract freedom loving Americans. They were supposed to get so worked up about it that they'd never notice how the socialists were smuggling critical race theory into the social fabric, bringing about universal self-loathing, divisiveness, transgendering and the destruction of family values.
It went wrong because right thinking Americans are not that easily fooled. Well, not for long anyway. They have already realised that voting for Biden was a big mistake. It'll be Trump again in 2024.
Imagine them being able to control the Gummint while Trump was Precedent.
...mighty devious them socialists.
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The whole bit with teaching a virus to infect other species, that sort of thing. Though our government says they would never do something like that, and I certainly believe them. They wouldn't lie to us, after all. Things like weapons of mass destruction, Gulf of Tonkin, Tuskegee experiment, MK Ultra, those were aberrations, by Bad Elements who are not representative of Our Great Republic. Ooohrah!
Oh, and there are no chemical or biological weapons, either. We got rid of all of those.
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They should work on the gain of function of politician brain activity.
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Can you really do gain of function on a coprolith?
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How do you understand the mechanism by which viruses jump species in nature?laklak wrote: ↑Tue Jan 18, 2022 2:38 pmThe whole bit with teaching a virus to infect other species, that sort of thing. Though our government says they would never do something like that, and I certainly believe them. They wouldn't lie to us, after all. Things like weapons of mass destruction, Gulf of Tonkin, Tuskegee experiment, MK Ultra, those were aberrations, by Bad Elements who are not representative of Our Great Republic. Ooohrah!
Oh, and there are no chemical or biological weapons, either. We got rid of all of those.
You do research.
That is the basic meaning of Gain of Function. Not what the fear-mongering politicians would have you believe.
It would be like stopping research in Chemistry because someone might abuse the technology to make Chemical Weapons. It makes more sense for the US to be involved in what is happening worldwide, so they know what's going on. Wuhan is a perfect example. The few pennies given over by the US to that lab made no difference, and certainly if the Chinese were trying to make a weaponised virus - it would be an order of magnitude worse than the COVID-19.
So if either the US, Russia, China and a few others were to make biological weapons and deploy them:
We'd be dead
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I'm pleased we're all agreed on this.
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