Will Trump Ban Federal Funding of Gain of Function Lab Research?

ER Editor: We’re using ‘gain of function’ as a loose term. As viruses have never been proven to exist, what is it really that these biolabs are souping up? Another, more accurate term for gain of function is biowarfare research. Trump is apparently ready to stop federal funding of it. Dr. Meryl Nass below explains the risks.

First, Clandestine, then Yahoo and then Dr. Meryl Nass. Note what Dr. Nass has to say about the WHO in this respect. 

It wasn’t Wuhan, it was Ukraine. Obama played a facilitating role, too.

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A reminder from December 2022 from Clandestine —

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Accompanying video in this tweet —

Fox News discuss WSJ report about upcoming Trump EO banning US funding being used for gain of function!

If Trump’s team follows this trail, they will end up in Ukraine, at Hunter Biden’s Metabiota, with virologist Nathan Wolfe.

I’m 100% certain that Trump already knows this,… pic.twitter.com/RkpF77EZ27

— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) January 23, 2025

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Proponents argue that this work is necessary for identifying future pandemic threats.

“People can bury their heads in the sand, but there are lots of viral threats out there, and you’re not going to be able to solve that threat without understanding viruses,” Gigi Gronvall, an immunologist and biosafety expert at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health told the Journal.

Yet the Trump administration’s forthcoming pause would hardly be a novel initiative.

The last three presidential administrations have all attempted to apply additional restrictions to gain-of-function research involving pandemic viruses over concerns that such research could cause a pandemic via lab accident or be used by nefarious actors to produce a bioweapon.

In 2014, the Obama administration paused funding for certain gain-of-function experiments on SARS, MERS, and influenza viruses.

In 2017, the first Trump administration implemented a new policy that lifted the pause but required research proposals that could produce new pandemic pathogens to be forwarded to a committee within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for a risk-benefit analysis.

In May 2024, the Biden administration issued a modified version of that 2017 policy that likewise required HHS review of risky pandemic research.

Granted, none of these frameworks proved to be particularly effective at their intended aims of limiting federal funding for gain-of-function research.

Under the Obama administration’s “pause,” the National Institutes of Health (NIH), through its subsidiary National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), funded gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. (ER: And what about those biolabs in Ukraine? Obama’s ‘pause’ was an outsourcing elsewhere.)

Proponents of the lab leak hypothesis argue that this NIH-funded research contributed to the creation of COVID-19 in the Wuhan laboratory, which then later leaked to the world and caused the pandemic.

That research continued to be funded by NIH under the first Trump administration. The agency never sent this research to HHS for a department-level review, as would seem to have been required.

All told, the HHS committee established under the Trump administration to vet gain-of-function research only ever reviewed three grant proposals and greenlit two of them.

Critics point to this as evidence that NIH and NIAID, helmed by gain-of-function proponents Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci (the latter of whom had a long history of public statements opposing restrictions on gain-of-function research), were deliberately flouting this vetting system.

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The post Trump Reportedly Preparing an Executive Order Banning Federal Funding of Gain-of-Function Research appeared first on Reason.com.

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In case anyone has forgotten the #1 reason to ban Gain of Function (Biowarfare) research, it is because it simply cannot be conducted safely.

Lab workers get bitten by the infected animals or stabbed by their hypodermic needles, cultures are dropped, infected lab workers unknowingly expose others. This is from a yearly federal report on accidents using dangerous microorganisms in high containment facilities, where 4 accidents continue to be reported weekly, week after week, year after year.

Then there is the problem that scientists share their viruses and reagents. The pandemic treaty draft below, which I screenshot, required nations to share pathogens with pandemic potential (biowarfare organisms) globally. What a disaster!

What does Gain of Function mean? I explain it below, and then reveal another pandemic treaty screenshot, which shows that the WHO actually wanted there to be LESS regulation of high containment lab research!

The risk of pandemics has been seriously hyped for the past 20 years. Furthermore, we have been propagandized to believe that pandemics come from “viral spillover” to humans, something that (apart from seasonal flu) almost never causes a pandemic.

Below you have my analysis of why the WHO and other multinational, globalist institutions have gone all out to convince us of their false pandemic narratives. They have spun this in such a way that it could give them total control over the planet.

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