Would all these scientists be OK with experimenting with potentially dangerous chimeras in BSL-2 laboratories? I can't believe that. They should stand up now and speak out against it and the publication of it.

Indeed.

Thanks for confirming.

So the Journal of Virology has a record of publishing this kind of unsafe GoF research?

What can be done about that?

I sent a complaint just out of principle, but of course, that won't change much.

Why is this considered to be "spam"??

A new 🇨🇳 gain of function study created chimeric coronaviruses that can infect human cells and kill mice (up to 100% mortality).

🚩"The viral infection [and all animal] experiments were performed in a BSL-2 laboratory"(!)🤦‍♂️

*The authors thank a.o. Ben Hu & Zheng-Li Shi.

Antoine Lavoisier, 1785:

“It is frightening to think that, in a large assembly, the air that each individual breathes has passed over and over again (…)through the lungs of all those present, and that it must have been charged with(…)putrid exhalations; but what is the nature of these emanations?”

Also not mentioned in Airborne by @carlzimmer.com is John Scott Haldane (1860–1936), the great Scottish physicist. He pioneered systematic CO₂ monitoring in public buildings and cannot be dismissed as a miasmist.👇

Benjamin Marten in 1720:

Thanks! That's just the little push I needed to dig out some of the Bob Shaw books that I once bought in a second-hand bookshop!