{"id":177841,"date":"2021-05-24T17:53:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T17:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/?p=202460"},"modified":"2021-05-24T17:53:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T17:53:23","slug":"mailbag-gain-of-function-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/05\/24\/mailbag-gain-of-function-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Mailbag: Gain-of-Function Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader sent us comments on our article on gain-of-function research and whether the federal government helped fund such research at the <span>Wuhan Institute of Virology\u00a0<\/span>in China.<\/p>\n<p>In the FactCheck Mailbag, we feature some of the email we receive. Readers can send comments to editor@factcheck.org. Letters may be edited for length.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-202460\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Gain-of-Function Research<\/h2>\n<p>I would like to thank Lori Robertson and editorial staff for the article entitled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/2021\/05\/the-wuhan-lab-and-the-gain-of-function-disagreement\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">The Wuhan Lab and the Gain-of-Function Disagreement<\/a>&#8221; [May 21]. It was the most complete, unbiased, and thorough article I have read on the subject. I sincerely appreciate the work that must have gone into preparing the piece.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Brown<br \/>\n<em>Winneconne, Wisconsin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/2021\/05\/mailbag-gain-of-function-research\/\">Mailbag: Gain-of-Function Research<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/\">FactCheck.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/2021\/05\/mailbag-gain-of-function-research\/\">FactCheck.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader sent us comments on our article on gain-of-function research and whether the federal government helped fund such research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology\u00a0in China.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/2021\/05\/mailbag-gain-of-function-research\/\">Mailbag: Gain-of-Function Research<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/\">FactCheck.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1725,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12383],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1725"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184417,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177841\/revisions\/184417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}