If it had been a lab in Colorado, under the nominal supervision of some Trump crony, I think it indeed would have been something of “a big deal from a policy perspective”!
I like Yglesias, but it’s pretty blinkered to limit “policy impact” to “what to do about biological threat research”. Maybe this means having unanswerable autocracies around is bad and we should try (however ineffectually) to change that state of affairs?
I like Yglesias, but it’s pretty blinkered to limit “policy impact” to “what to do about biological threat research”. Maybe this means having unanswerable autocracies around is bad and we should try (however ineffectually) to change that state of affairs?