and physician Rand Paul
He's an ophthalmologist. Just because one is a "physician", even an expert in their particular niche, doesn't mean they're experts on everything with respect to human biology. It's like saying a guy who does tune ups at the local garage knows everything about formula 1 engines. Umm, no. Appeal to authority? Discount number one for this "scribbler."
...work that arguably fits the definition of gain-of-function.
There's no evidence that the experiments in question had any direct bearing on the pandemic.
The NIH and EcoHealth have asserted that none of the engineered viruses created with the NIH grant could have become SARS-CoV-2. On that, everyone agrees—the viruses are too distantly related.
A lack of evidence proves nothing
Yet, this scribbler goes on to make some rather broad claims...on admitted lack of evidence.
Daszak and EcoHealth may have or proposed to push the envelope on what NIH, DARPA and others thought prudent, but that must also be balanced with the fact that to treat, we must first understand. How do pathogens "gain function" so as to infect humans? The scribbler left that in the dust in his mad, breathless rush to find "Dr. Frankenstein!!!!!" One of the reasons information is kept from scribblers like Jacobsen. At best he doesn't understand and goes off on tangents that are unproductive and dangerous in their own right. At worst he does understand but doesn't care and goes off on tangents that are unproductive and dangerous in their own right.
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