A new bill has been introduced in Texas that would ban taxpayer cash from going to gain-of-function research as the controversial method continues to be blamed by some experts for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Texas State Sen. Bob Hall put forward a bill on Monday related to “prohibiting institutions of higher education or entities receiving public funds from conducting gain of function research on potentially pandemic pathogens." The FBI and Energy Department believe COVID-19 most likely originated through a lab leak in Wuhan, and Republicans at the national and state level have expressed concerns about the National Institutes of Health funding coronavirus experiments at the Wuhan lab.
The Texas move was praised by one professor who has supported the lab leak theory. “This is an important step. Legislators in all fifty states should follow suit and introduce bills calling for state bans on enhancing potential pandemic pathogens,” Richard Ebright, the lab director for the Waksman Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University, told the Washington Examiner.
UTMB released a statement that month saying the GNL “has hosted Chinese scientists for training to work in the high-containment lab." Rep. Chip Roy sent a letter to LeDuc in July 2022 asking for details and contending that “it is concerning that any public institution receiving federal government funding would enter into a cooperation agreement with an entity controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.”
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