Supercharging Viruses? Gain of Function Research and the Hunt for Covid’s Origins

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  • Опубліковано 21 тра 2024
  • Questions over the origins of the virus that sparked the Covid-19 pandemic have resurfaced a debate over a controversial type of research that can involve altering the genetic information of viruses. To learn more about virus’s origins story, check out some of our past coverage:
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 44

  • @pfausette4405
    @pfausette4405 Рік тому +7

    Just a cover for a bio weapons lab.

    • @Sceince01
      @Sceince01 11 місяців тому

      Lol , how long have you worn to foil ? How much do you hate facts ?

  • @jimwong2269
    @jimwong2269 2 роки тому +6

    Professor Ralph Steven Baric at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill already got patents for coronavirus bio-engineering. He has been doing GOF research on coronavirus for more than 30 years and is the person who mostly familiar with coronavirus.

  • @Ex-expat
    @Ex-expat 2 роки тому +13

    My question to Gain of Function is: Did it help so far in anyway to predict, treat and develop a vaccine?
    To my knowledge: No, no and no.
    So, why not play around with viruses that can't harm humans?
    Sounds to me that rewards vs risks business case is not paying off today!!

    • @dangremillion
      @dangremillion 2 роки тому +2

      Unless you have a deep comprehensive knowledge of all gain of function research done world wide, there is no way you can render an opinion that involves risk vs rewards regarding GOF research. Neither can I.

  • @CutestBoyInTheMorgue
    @CutestBoyInTheMorgue Рік тому +4

    This aged well with the whole Pfizer thing that just happened.

  • @abhig3847
    @abhig3847 2 роки тому +7

    Reporters interviewing reporters made to look like experts. messed up media.

    • @dangremillion
      @dangremillion 2 роки тому

      That is the price we pay to obtain the news.

    • @DJ-GASM
      @DJ-GASM Рік тому

      They're providing commentary and reporting from the field. Not pretending to be experts

  • @flux202
    @flux202 2 роки тому +2

    The Street let you have your own channel!?

  • @zacheubanks8780
    @zacheubanks8780 5 місяців тому +3

    I can't help but ask myself, what is the profitability of gain of function research? These people are spending ungodly amounts of money developing vaccines for diseases that may never even exist, or at least probably won't exist for tens or even hundreds of years. Call me crazy if you want to but rich people don't seem to historically spend gobs of money on humanitarian efforts. If they did, world hunger would have been solved by now. Vaccines for diseases that may never even exist doesn't seem like a very safe investment. It's simply not profitable when compared to how much they spend on this process. You know what is profitable though? Bio weapons.

  • @perdurabo56
    @perdurabo56 2 роки тому +2

    This isn’t Minecraft

  • @lionelcrown9629
    @lionelcrown9629 7 місяців тому

    So they're willing to sacrifice people's lives to save lives

  • @ingoos
    @ingoos 2 роки тому +1

    who/what's to say GoF will not be abused for profit / terrorism...?!

    • @johnr.b.murray3417
      @johnr.b.murray3417 2 місяці тому

      Too late. Albert Bourla, Jew. Ask him how muck $hekel$ per victim.

  • @steveholmes161
    @steveholmes161 2 роки тому +1

    The Wall Street Journal, it’s like eating a Twinkie. There’s no meat and potatoes. No real science here, just a bunch of gobbledygook!

  • @sagarpatel63131
    @sagarpatel63131 2 роки тому +2

    Covid 19

  • @anthonybyrnes2561
    @anthonybyrnes2561 2 роки тому +5

    This seemed like a hit piece to acknowledge but then suppress the lab leak hypothesis, before signing off with “we may never know the origins”. Absolutely diluted attempt at explaining GoF and the origin of Covid. Daniela, you’ve allowed your journalism to be hijacked by your scientific colleague.

    • @jimwong2269
      @jimwong2269 2 роки тому

      Professor Ralph Steven Baric at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill already got patents for coronavirus bio-engineering. He has been doing GOF research on coronavirus for more than 30 years and is the person who mostly familiar with coronavirus.

  • @drummist1000
    @drummist1000 Рік тому +3

    It came from a lab in wuhan China

    • @Sceince01
      @Sceince01 11 місяців тому +2

      Totally wrong .

  • @johnfarmer3506
    @johnfarmer3506 2 роки тому +2

    GOF is here to stay. If the other side is doing it we in the West must follow. We can’t have a major outbreak of a bioweapon directed towards the West without having the ability to have a vaccine on hand. We can try to increase Bio Safety through international treaties, but we will never be able to say that this type of research is not being done somewhere on the planet. The labs are just too small and can be located anywhere.

    • @JKenny44
      @JKenny44 Рік тому

      Gain of function exleriments in Wuhan lab were directly funded by the USA.

    • @ApplePotato
      @ApplePotato Рік тому

      GOF is no good at producing a bioweapons.... because releasing lab modify pathogen has too much unknowns and you do not want to kill off your own populous. Most biological agents selected for weapons research are existing pathogen out in the wild that have quick onset period, cause severe illness but is readily curable. They must also be relatively stable so your cure will continue to work incase its spreads to your soldiers.

  • @elizabethhenning778
    @elizabethhenning778 2 роки тому +4

    MOST virology research could be considered gain-of-function research with a broad enough definition. The debate is a political straw man.

    • @lilyv.1260
      @lilyv.1260 2 роки тому +1

      how do you know it is a political straw man?

    • @dangremillion
      @dangremillion 2 роки тому +2

      Excellent point. The news media will never admit they will never know the origin of Covid 19. That doesn't sell newspapers.

    • @ApplePotato
      @ApplePotato Рік тому +1

      Exactly. Pathogens are bread all the time for research and mutations do happen. Even bacteria that are engineered to eat plastic is GOF.

    • @vs6300
      @vs6300 3 місяці тому

      Virology is not Gain of Function. Gain of Function is a subset of virology and it is very clear what it is. Its an absolutely silky ans dangerous practice and ought to be stooped

  • @johnr.b.murray3417
    @johnr.b.murray3417 2 місяці тому

    Ask the Jew Peter Daszak.

  • @josephfranco1495
    @josephfranco1495 Рік тому

    Why gain of function of dangerous virus for what purpose it serves?

    • @mattk8810
      @mattk8810 Рік тому

      Gain of function is a broad term. Its to get ahead of a virus in this case.

    • @josephfranco1495
      @josephfranco1495 Рік тому

      @@mattk8810 if the virus only exist within those animals and it only affects them leave it alone playing God only means the devil is playing too

    • @josephfranco1495
      @josephfranco1495 Рік тому

      @@mattk8810 broad term well it definitely brought in the death rate and all the b******* that it comes with