Nature Journal: Stop complaining about Boston U creating a more dangerous strain of COVID

There was quite a stir going around a couple of weeks ago when we learned that researchers at Boston University had created (possibly inadvertently) a new strain of the novel coronavirus that caused an 80 percent mortality rate in laboratory mice. (The “normal” version of the virus only causes mild illness in mice with few deaths being recorded.) Of course, you might not have been aware of that unless you were following conservative news outlets because CNN and MSNBC barely mentioned it. This type of “gain-of-function” research is highly controversial and has been the subject of many debates since the earliest days of the pandemic. But are people simply overreacting to something that they don’t understand while these scientists have everything under control? That’s what some of the experts at the journal Nature seem to believe. If you were all masters of The Science like the researchers at Boston U, you’d know to keep your opinions to yourself and just let the masters of medicine get on with their work.Read More