Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Newsmax on Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s executive order prohibiting federally funded gain-of-function research on biological agents and pathogens was a “milestone and historic development.”
“Gain of function is an area of science where scientists really play God,” Kennedy told “The Record With Greta Van Susteren.” “And they’re taking pathogenic viruses and they’re making them more transmissible, they’re making them more virulent, and they’re making them more deadly.
“President Trump wants to have our federally funded scientists actually improving public health, ending chronic disease, fighting infectious diseases rather than creating new ones. And yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order to ban dangerous gain-of-function studies in this country and prevent us from funding those studies abroad. And I think it was a milestone, a historic development. I’m very grateful to President Trump for doing that.”
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