Annie Jacobsen
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 21 Jul
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Well, there's lots of different euphemisms for genetic engineering in this world.
There's dual-use research of concern.
Everyone knows about dual-use.
You can use
a kitchen knife to make your dinner or to kill someone.
So then there's this idea of gain of function, which is exactly like it sounds.
You modify, genetically modify a pathogen to give it more function, be it virulence, be it transmissibility, to defeat a countermeasure.
This is often done in the name of science, in the name of medical countermeasures, looking for vaccines, looking for antibiotics.
to defeat a biological weapon in the event of an attack or incident but you know interviewing presidential advisors as i did there's another side of the equation people like andy weber who was obama's top biological weapons advisor will tell you gain of function is a euphemism
for biological weapons engineering.
And he is not alone.
I think you pointed out like a really important point.
I found two.
One, in terms of lessons learned from COVID or rather maybe lessons not learned.
Number one was the United States is woefully unprepared.
despite spending billions of dollars.
And I quickly take the reader through some of those numbers, but it's remarkable to think that the case fatality rate of COVID was 1%.
So that's the number of people per 100 who die of the disease, who catch the disease.
There are pathogens out there with a 100% case fatality rate.
And so that fact that we are unprepared should really make people
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