by Jon Fleetwood, Jon Fleetwood: Those genetic traits later coronavirology largely took for granted began as interpretations of laboratory measurements in Michael Lai’s taxpayer-funded 1978 paper. For decades, U.S. taxpayer-funded coronavirologist Ralph Baric developed increasingly sophisticated methods for reconstructing, modifying, and engineering coronaviruses. Before 2019, his work claimed to explain down to the molecular level how to […]