Biological weapon/Research
 Biological weapon/Research  (research)   | |
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| Interest of | • Danielle Anderson • Ralph Baric • Peter Daszak • EcoHealth Alliance • Anthony Fauci • Bill Gates • Wuhan Institute of Virology |
Research into bioweapons is ongoing.
Contents
"Gain-of-function" research
"Gain-of-function" research or "feature enhancement" is the modification of naturally occurring viruses in order to make them more deadly and/or more contagious, especially in humans. The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) opened mainland China's first biosafety level 4 laboratory in 2015. They carried out "gain-of-function" research on coronaviruses and SARS-like viruses. Several US agencies have outsourced research to WIV since 2014. Documentation informing about SARS-COV-2 "feature enhancement" was suspiciously "destroyed" in November 2019 at WIV. [1]
Genetic extinction technology
- Full article: Genetic Extinction Technology
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In 2017 one group in Australia and another in Texas released preliminary research into creating 'daughterless mice', using gene drives in mammals. Modified viruses may be used to promote genetic extinction technology.
Temporary moratorium
Safety concerns lead to the banning of "Gain-of-function" research on coronaviruses in the US in 2014, but it "came roaring back under Trump and Fauci" in 2017.[citation needed] Marc Lipsitch commented that this sort of research had “done almost nothing to improve our preparedness for pandemics, yet... risked creating an accidental pandemic.”[2]
Legal status
It is illegal to research offensive bioweapons.
In practice, this restriction means nothing, since — apart from the veil of secrecy surrounding such activities, the research of new offensive weapons can be explained as a first step to development of research into how to defend against them.
Privatisation
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Privatisation has decreased the transparency associated with this area.
Examples
| Page name | Description |
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| CRISPR gene editing | Breakthrough technology making gene editing easy and fast. |
| DEFUSE | A rejected proposal from Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance to weaponise naturally occuring bat coronaviruses, to preempt "zoonotic spillover". Authenticity questionable. |
| Genetic Extinction Technology | |
| National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases | |
| Operation Cauldron | Offshore test of biological weapons. |
Related Quotation
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
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| Sasha Latypova | “The perpetrators desperately, at all cost, need you to to believe that "mutating viruses in a lab" achieves some scary result, that then can be "leaked". That anyone can do it, even a PhD student in their garage. That our enemies are doing it and will "release" a super scary bug any time now, unless the Government is "prepared" by making a stockpile of "predictive vaccines" that can be deployed in DAYS after a new scary virus is detected in China. Or Timbuktu. It is, however, a narrative. There is no way to "mutate viruses" in a lab in the way they all imply - to artificially make them deadlier and more transmissible at the same time. This is a propaganda fairytale with a very specific goal. You should be very concerned about any person (on "their" side or "ours") who repeats it with a serious face. | Sasha Latypova | 27 January 2023 |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:Bioterror: Manufacturing Wars The American Way | foreword | 1 April 2003 | William H. Schaap Ellen Ray | |
| Document:Was there a Wuhan lab leak? | blog post | 1 June 2021 | Jonathan Cook | No meaningful lessons will be learnt about what really happened in Wuhan. Maintaining the illusion of truth will continue to take precedence over uncovering the truth. And for that reason we are doomed to keep making the same screw-ups. As the next pandemic will doubtless attest. |
