If I change out the Firestone tires on my car for Discount tires, am I conducting “fain-od-function” research on my car? (I’m using your misspellings.)
Or am I testing whether Discount tires will work on my car in a manner comparable to the Firestone tires?
Because the research that has been widely mischaracterized as gain-of-function is the virus equivalent of switching out the tires to see if one brand of tires will work as well as the other brand. They put bat spike on a human virus and tested to see if it still caused infections in human cells. In order for something to be gain-of-function, you actually have to give it a capability that it did not have before. Like when I engineered yeast to make mouse proteins, I did gain-of-function research on that yeast, because yeast doesn’t normally make mouse proteins.
Get stuffed Troll.🚨The National Institutes of Health admits to funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China🚨@RepDLesko: "Did NIH fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology through EcoHealth?"
Dr. Tabak: “If you're speaking about the generic term, yes, we did” pic.twitter.com/CnbFx2TUzQ— Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic (@COVIDSelect) May 16, 2024
Tires are not virions; they do not infect a car; and they are already standardized so you know in advance which models of a tire will fit on the rims of each vehicle.
No mutation is involved.
Mutation of a virus—in this case, say, the sRBD or the entire spike—whether by direct genetic editing or repeated introduction to new hosts and cultivating the results repeatedly to effectuate increased affinity to certain cellular receptors on a new host—
is NOT just taking an unmodified set of tires and swapping them onto the rims of a second vehicle to evaluate driving performance.
You are deliberately lying through your teeth by using a mixed metaphor to attempt to mislead readers as to the enormity (biological warfare) of what was actually done.
Troll.