Tucker was conflating bio-research labs and bio-weapons development.
He was trying to make it sound scary that in Ukraine there was a “biosafety level 3 laboratory.”
But there are something like 200 such labs here in the US alone.
Go to any major American research university with a decent microbiology department and they will have a laboratory doing bio-research.
It’s how the faculty and grad students climb the academic ladder, they have to pump out published research from their lab.
The Soviet Union had numerous scientifically-oriented universities and their successors carry on today providing a science curriculum to students and doing research.
And the US government is the single biggest funder of medical research in the world, including a big part by the DoD.
Remember the leaked proposal by Peter Dasczak for funding for the research that the Wuhan lab? That leaked proposal was to DARPA who turned it down because it smelled like banned gain-of-function research (and then later Fauci funded it).
But just because a lab is doing research on pathogens, like hundreds of labs around the world are doing, does not mean that it is developing bio-weapons.
Well if there is nothing weaponised in those labs, why would Nuland and Rubio be concerned about Russians getting the bio material. They would have the same pathogens in labs in Russia if they were intending to use. This whole thing is to set up a hysterical response to ‘Russians use Anthrax,we must respond’
Why would Nuland say (regarding these labs) => “we are now quite concerned Russian troops and Russian forces may be seeking to gain control of,” if these were just run-of-the-mill bio-research labs?
does not mean that it is developing bio-weapons.
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Neither does it mean they weren’t.
Well, you’re right, but the pro-Putin types are going to be after you anyway for insulting their conspiracy.
We were doing gain of function testing at Chapel Hill which was the precursor that warned of the bat jump. I looked at those details at the beginning of Covid.
I don’t remember the details but it slid in because of something ao was allowed to continue despite the moratorium. I think it had to do with dates.
Why would anyone be shocked if Ukraine was also doing gain o function
>>But just because a lab is doing research on pathogens, like hundreds of labs around the world are doing, does not mean that it is developing bio-weapons.<<
Where in the sam hell have you been during the last two + years? Good grief!
Is that you Joe Biden?
He was trying to make it sound scary that in Ukraine there was a “biosafety level 3 laboratory.”
Tucker was right actually.
“Tucker was conflating bio-research labs and bio-weapons development.”
Exactly. Virtually every talking head has been equating BSL-3 research labs with weapons labs. Disappointing to see Tucker running with this.
IIRC Wuhan is a BSL-4 lab although a sloppily maintained one.