The Dutch Scientists Don't Want to Open Up the Idea That Gain of Function Research Is Engineered

Fauciet had been the main protagonist in a very controversial episode about 10 years ago, which led to the whole debate about gain of function research. He planned to do an experiment in which bird flu would be infected into ferrets and would then become possible for the ferrets to infect other ferrets through the air. Now, he knew that was a very dangerous thing to do because, you know, you're effectively turning it into something that might be able to infect human beings at some point. So the experiment was very carefully planned, very carefully controlled, done under very strict conditions, etc. But it led to a huge debate in the scientific community, in the scientific journals, about