The better practical question now is, how do we make this change? Balsa is mostly about getting restrictions out of the way to let people build and do things. This is an exception. Do not do this! Do not build this! How do we write a law that stops people from doing and building this?
If people can openly say that something that’s obviously gain of function isn’t gain of function I’m not sure whether new laws are the main tool.
Fauci said under oath, that a paper that he mailed around with the title “Baric, Shi et al—Nature medicine—SARS Gain of function.pdf” doesn’t contain any gain-of-functions. That seems to me like an egregious breaking of the oath.
Breaking an oath is a federal offense. If the Republicans take the house, there’s some possibility of them doing an investigation into the whole mess that leads there.
If people can openly say that something that’s obviously gain of function isn’t gain of function I’m not sure whether new laws are the main tool.
Fauci said under oath, that a paper that he mailed around with the title “Baric, Shi et al—Nature medicine—SARS Gain of function.pdf” doesn’t contain any gain-of-functions. That seems to me like an egregious breaking of the oath.
Breaking an oath is a federal offense. If the Republicans take the house, there’s some possibility of them doing an investigation into the whole mess that leads there.