`Gain of Function` and the Origins of Covid

Dangerous research in Wuhan which had previously been shut down was quietly switched back on by the US in 2017.

One of the strangest things about modern media is that the most bizarre and shocking stories are mentioned and then quickly forgotten.

A few months ago the former chief of the US Center for Disease Control (CDC), declared it was likely that Covid-19 leaked from a lab.

For most of 2020, if anybody suggested such a thing, one was considered some kind of QAn…