weaponry was, and these kind of research was always that we have to do this,

develop vaccines to counter a future pandemic.

In all of the history of bio-vegan function research,

we can't point to a single good thing that's come from it.

And today I commend President Trump for his courage and his vision in ending U.S.

bio-weapons research.

And Jay, I'd love you to talk a little bit about it.

Yeah.

Jay, please.

This is a historic day.

The conduct of this dangerous gain of function of research which aims at taking pathogens

and making them more virulent, more transmissible on humans, many scientists believe

is responsible for the COVID pandemic.

The conduct of this research does not protect us against pandemics, as some people might say.

It doesn't protect us against other nations.

What it does is there's always a danger that in doing this research it might leak out just by accident even and cause a pandemic.

Any nation that engages in this research endangers their own population,

as well as the world, as we saw during the COVID pandemic. This proclamation makes it so that

most science has poses no threat to human populations. The vast majority of science will go on

under this as normal.

But the fraction of this research that has the risk of causing a pandemic harming every single

person on the face of the earth, we're going to put it, this proclamation, this executive

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