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A comment on Nicholas Wade: Origin of Covid – Following the Clues.

Re:Nicholas Wade: Origin of Covid – Following the Clues by garyclarke27 on Monday May 03, 2021 @12:47PM (#27027357)
Excellent article, no doubt in my mind it was a lab escape and the fact is that Dr Fauci helped fund this appalling irresponsible “gain of function research”, so he’s partly responsible for this historical calamity.
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Re:Nicholas Wade: Origin of Covid – Following the Clues by meepmorp on Monday May 03, 2021 @02:35PM (#27028953)
Why is it irresponsible research?

I think there's incredible research value of learning how pathogens become more dangerous, and this kind of research seems like a methodical way to go about getting that kind of information. I'm not an expert in the field, so maybe you know of better ways to gather the data.

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Re:Nicholas Wade: Origin of Covid – Following the Clues by fvdessen on Monday May 03, 2021 @02:38PM (#27028981)
Are 3 million dead not a good enough reason to call this kind of research irresponsible ?!?
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Re:Nicholas Wade: Origin of Covid – Following the Clues by meepmorp on Monday May 03, 2021 @02:46PM (#27029075)
One, you're assuming that this research is the cause of the pandemic, and that's not a given.

Two, even if the pandemic were caused by this research, that doesn't make the research itself irresponsible.

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Re:Nicholas Wade: Origin of Covid – Following the Clues by xxxxxxx12 on Monday May 03, 2021 @03:04PM (#27029315)
> that doesn't make the research itself irresponsible

This seems like an absurd conclusion. If research isn't done responsibly in practice, and results in disaster, then the risks aren't worth it.

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Re:Nicholas Wade: Origin of Covid – Following the Clues by creamytaco on Thursday May 06, 2021 @12:18AM (#27059135)
Not only is it absurd, there has been no documented value that we derived from this research. Totally useless and totally destructive.
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Re:Nicholas Wade: Origin of Covid – Following the Clues by meepmorp on Monday May 03, 2021 @03:26PM (#27029586)
That’s an absurd conclusion.

We’ve had nuclear accidents before. Should we abandon all nuclear research, since in practice there are accidents?

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