URGENT: A new Chinese paper shows (again) why gain-of-function research on risky viruses should be banned as a crime against humanity

It's all downside, except for the scientists who get paid to do it. What are we waiting for, another lab leak?

We don’t let medicinal chemists insist they can make designer opioids.

We don’t let nuclear engineers tell us they get to play with plutonium in private labs.

So why have we let virologists hijack the debate over whether they should be allowed to make risky viruses - especially respiratory viruses like the flu - even deadlier?

Over four years after Sars-Co…