What did Tabak agree about with Collins, when faced with this very honest and dispassionate email from David Relman?
@JamieMetzl @BiosafetyNow @DrJBhattacharya
'There are some incredibly important questions, not just about what happened, but also about how we should go about understanding biological threats that arise from nature, as well as from the activities of humans, and how we should manage tradeoffs between benefits and risks in science. NIH can (and IMHO, really must) play a leading role in this discussion.'
'This discussion will require a lot more transparency and humility (vice, confident assertions in the absence of good evidence), a willingness to listen to diverse points of view, as well as a willingness to acknowledge some important deficiencies in the current availability of data (that bear on the origins question).'
I guess that all that happened is that Fauci, Collins and Tabak circled the wagons even further, calling anybody who asked these questions a conspiracy theorist, and redoubling their media and scientific vilification campaign with fancy papers and social media hunt dogs.
@DOGE