The Man Who Branded the Lab-Origin Debate a Conspiracy Theory Had 'Gain of Function' Written Into His Own Grant Application
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Christian Drosten coordinated a publicly funded research consortium whose own application speaks verbatim of a ‘gain-of-function approach.’ In the same spring of 2020 he co-signed the letter that publicly branded the debate over a lab origin a ‘conspiracy theory.’ Both have been documented for years. Placed side by side, they amount to a conflict of interest that to this day is never named as one in Germany. A precise assessment — with every caveat that belongs to it.
