{"id":68806,"date":"2021-06-07T21:26:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T02:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=68806"},"modified":"2021-06-07T21:26:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T02:26:22","slug":"68806","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=68806","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Question O&#8217; The Day<\/p>\n<p>Was it \u201cinnocent\u201d gain-of-function research, or was it intentional bioweapon work? And was the leak accidental, or deliberate?<\/p>\n<p>Bear in mind that secret military programs often have nested cover stories, where when one is penetrated, it leads to a new one.<br \/>\n[<em>and how well I know <strong>that<\/strong> technique<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>Natural germ in \u201cwet market\u201d \u2013&gt; lab leak \u2013&gt; deliberate release?<br \/>\nWho knows?<br \/>\nThat last may be impossible to determine, unless a Chinese defector spills the beans or something. One way to address this in the future is to ban gain-of-function research, so that if it happens you know it\u2019s illicit. Too late for that in this case, of course, since U.S. taxpayers, through the NIH, were actually funding this research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question O&#8217; The Day Was it \u201cinnocent\u201d gain-of-function research, or was it intentional bioweapon work? And was the leak accidental, or deliberate? Bear in mind that secret military programs often have nested cover stories, where when one is penetrated, it leads to a new one. [and how well I know that technique] Natural germ in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=68806\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-medicine","category-question-o-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68807,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68806\/revisions\/68807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}