Efforts lacking transparency and clear evidence risk harming individual scientists as well as the broader U.S. scientific enterprise. Read the responses from scientific organizations at the end of the article. ⬇️
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Exclusive: Alleging a “pattern of deception” in virus studies done over a decade ago, the U.S. has proposed a ban on federal funding to a prominent coronavirus researcher whose more recent work has incited unproven accusations that he helped start the #COVID19 pandemic. https://scim.ag/3R7nQx1
HHS memo says Ralph Baric had a “pattern of deception” in describing virus studies long before pandemic