Spotlight on Biosecurity: How ‘gain-of-function’ slipped through the net
As the global Covid-19 pandemic swept through the globe in 2020 devastating lives and national economies, a small community of scientists operating in a fringe corner of virology suddenly found themselves in a strangely conflicted situation. The grave circumstances, as awful as they were, appeared at face value to vindicate a controversial scientific research method […]
Spotlight on biological warfare
From Gain of Function research to biological warfare threats in Ukraine In the summer of 2020, when the zoonotic origin story for Covid was the established consensus on how the global pandemic had been triggered, I was approached by a source who had sensed I might be receptive to a story nobody else was telling. […]
