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pinetreesgreen t1_j6l2ha4 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Canadian universities have been conducting joint research with Chinese military scientists for years by No-Drawing-6975

No we did not. Sen Paul pretends we did, but that would mean he doesn't know what gain of function research actually is.

https://www.factcheck.org/2022/05/scicheck-navarro-falsely-links-fauci-to-pandemic-origin/

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[deleted] t1_j6l60op wrote

Yeah, theres a negative percent chance anyone is going to admit we funded that research given the shitshow that ensued even if we did.

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elshankar t1_j6l9i3z wrote

It really depends on who you ask, people who would get in trouble for funding gain of function research say no, but many independent virologists say that we did indeed fund gain of function research in China.

The link you provided is talking about funding the pandemic virus, which isn't what the OP stated. Here's another article from factcheck.org that states we very likely did fund gain of function research:

https://www.factcheck.org/2021/05/the-wuhan-lab-and-the-gain-of-function-disagreement/

Go to the last 2 sections on gain of function and the ecohealth grant.

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