• bionicjoey
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    4 months ago

    Yeah I’m very confused. Was this person working against Canada or merely for the benefit of China?

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      4 months ago

      There’s a whole lot of bullshit going on around this story. People are acting like she violated national security interests, but they can’t articulate how. Like she shipped ebola to wuhan, but she wasn’t fired for that because cooperation with high level labs is kind of important (and I’m sure wuhan already HAD a sample of ebola before she even shipped it). The findings she shared would’ve been shared eventually(and the reason it started a kerfluffle is because China shared them and included her in as a co-author in a paper and included her in patents for ebolavirus treatments). You can still say she was working “against Canada” if you really want to twist it, but that’s not really what happened. She violated policy and got fired, then said the firing was unjust. The potential damage to Canada comes from intellectual property interests but there’s not much money in treating Ebola in the first place.

      https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ebola-henipah-china-1.5232674

      Researchers working at the National Microbiology Lab on cutting-edge, high-containment research are not allowed to send anything to other countries or labs without the intellectual property office negotiating and having a material transfer agreement in place, in case the material sent leads to a notable discovery.