It’s a good sign that the president is calling on critics of the federal government’s lack of transparency to staff his administration.
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WilltheincomingTrumpadministrationandRepublicanCongressgettothebottomofhowtheCOVID-19pandemicbegan?There’severyindicationthatthey’llatleasttry.
TheideathatthepandemicoriginatedintheWuhanInstituteofVirology(WIV)inChina—andthatU.S.government–fundedresearchcontributedtothevirus’screation—hasgonefromaderidedconspiracytheorytoacrediblehypothesiswithsomemainstreamacceptanceinthepastfewyears.
Thankstoinformationobtainedthroughcongressionalprobesandinvestigativejournalism,wealreadyknowthatU.S.government–fundedresearcherswereengagedingain-of-functionresearchoncoronavirusesattheWIV.
Weknowthesameresearchersproposedusingfederalgrantstocreateviruseswithmanyoftheuniquefeaturesofthevirusthatcausedthepandemic;theyevencitedthecost-effectivenessofdoingsoundertheChineselab’slowerbiosecurityprotocols.
Wealsoknowthatresearchersandtheirfundersa
