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In reply to the discussion: Cnet: How the coronavirus origin story is being rewritten by a guerrilla Twitter group [View all]womanofthehills
(8,584 posts)28. Worse than you can imagine - labs doing dangerous research springing up all over world
Opinion: The world still hasnt figured out how to regulate research into deadly viruses
One person who has thought a lot about who that sheriff might be is Filippa Lentzos, a senior lecturer in science and international security at Kings College London. Lentzos is an expert on biological agents and emerging pathogen threats. And what she has to say isnt reassuring.
She explains that scientists around the world work with the most dangerous pathogens in Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4) labs. But there are no international regulations [on those labs]. Theres no set international law that they have to follow. There's nobody checking what they're doing. There are no inspectors, no regulators. There's none of that.
It gets even worse. Lentzos tells me that the system is so uncontrolled that theres not even a proper list of these facilities. You cannot track them because theres not even an official international list of global BSL-4 labs, she explains.
One person who has thought a lot about who that sheriff might be is Filippa Lentzos, a senior lecturer in science and international security at Kings College London. Lentzos is an expert on biological agents and emerging pathogen threats. And what she has to say isnt reassuring.
She explains that scientists around the world work with the most dangerous pathogens in Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4) labs. But there are no international regulations [on those labs]. Theres no set international law that they have to follow. There's nobody checking what they're doing. There are no inspectors, no regulators. There's none of that.
It gets even worse. Lentzos tells me that the system is so uncontrolled that theres not even a proper list of these facilities. You cannot track them because theres not even an official international list of global BSL-4 labs, she explains.
Thats an urgent priority because the proliferation of BSL-4 labs without corresponding regulation is a ticking time bomb for dangerous pathogens. Even though most of these labs are doing legitimate research rather than developing biological weapons, the benefits to society might not always outweigh the potential for a catastrophic accident
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/11/biosecurity-covid19-laboratories-wuhan/
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Cnet: How the coronavirus origin story is being rewritten by a guerrilla Twitter group [View all]
intrepidity
Apr 2021
OP
I'm curious why you are so motivated to push the theory that covid escaped from a lab?
Phoenix61
Apr 2021
#1
So you're simply doing the same thing over and over again and hoping for different results...?
LanternWaste
Apr 2021
#29
Article from 2020 WaPo- In 2018 our State Dept was worried about coronavirus escaping from the lab
womanofthehills
Apr 2021
#11
Well that's all I need to hear to feel a need to go out and abuse people who look remotely Chinese
Hugh_Lebowski
Apr 2021
#2
Actually - Our government was funding research at the Wujan lab thru Pater Daszak's Eco Health
womanofthehills
Apr 2021
#13
In March, once the WHO-China mission was complete, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO's director
Celerity
Apr 2021
#12
Interesting that Peter Daszak's Eco Health was funding the coronavirus research at the Wujan lab
womanofthehills
Apr 2021
#14
Our CIA director Burns said yesterday that the WHO report is not their assessment
womanofthehills
Apr 2021
#20
Worse than you can imagine - labs doing dangerous research springing up all over world
womanofthehills
Apr 2021
#28