It's interesting to hear some social media and News Ltd spiel about banning research on gain of function, beating the drums to encourage throwing of rocks at Fauci.
I notice some of it coming from the USA and many ardent Pfizer boosters AZ denigrators, which seems a tad odd in that mRNA vaccines like Pfizer and Moderna are basically built out of gain of function research, while there competitors AZ and J&J are basically traditional. No gain of function probably no mRNA vaccines.
Ironic isn't it?
While here in Oz the right wing has even more ironically jumped into bed with Extinction Rebellion and Peta align politicians drumming up hysteria to point the finger at the mostly scientific left, with the sympathetic politicians seeing it as a backdoor to totally banning live animal research. Of course all this masks the ineptitude of the Federal government, they get there political false flag to blame somebody else for our circumstance. In the meantime I gather the crooked politicians won't divest themselves of shares in companies that import medicine and vaccine from China.
Australia is already just about the most heavily regulated bioresearch locality on the planet. We lose billion of dollar$ and hundreds of valuable researchers every year to OS destinations like the UK, Europe, China and the USA. Not due to funding as many suspect, but because our heavily regulated sector has failed to keep it's laws up to date with the ever increasing technology, globally we are seen as legal luddites which forces our researchers to move their research OS to allow it to continue. In fact if we updated the laws many of the big trusts would fund the research to continue here because it's cheaper than doing it in London or New York. No amount of money will fix it, and Scotty from Marketing hasn't that willpower to go against his Happy Clapping supporter base to move those laws.
I notice some of it coming from the USA and many ardent Pfizer boosters AZ denigrators, which seems a tad odd in that mRNA vaccines like Pfizer and Moderna are basically built out of gain of function research, while there competitors AZ and J&J are basically traditional. No gain of function probably no mRNA vaccines.
Ironic isn't it?
While here in Oz the right wing has even more ironically jumped into bed with Extinction Rebellion and Peta align politicians drumming up hysteria to point the finger at the mostly scientific left, with the sympathetic politicians seeing it as a backdoor to totally banning live animal research. Of course all this masks the ineptitude of the Federal government, they get there political false flag to blame somebody else for our circumstance. In the meantime I gather the crooked politicians won't divest themselves of shares in companies that import medicine and vaccine from China.
Australia is already just about the most heavily regulated bioresearch locality on the planet. We lose billion of dollar$ and hundreds of valuable researchers every year to OS destinations like the UK, Europe, China and the USA. Not due to funding as many suspect, but because our heavily regulated sector has failed to keep it's laws up to date with the ever increasing technology, globally we are seen as legal luddites which forces our researchers to move their research OS to allow it to continue. In fact if we updated the laws many of the big trusts would fund the research to continue here because it's cheaper than doing it in London or New York. No amount of money will fix it, and Scotty from Marketing hasn't that willpower to go against his Happy Clapping supporter base to move those laws.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"