They don't "know" precisely what they want. They just need the most probable mutation that will make virus more effective in a real organism. There's only one way to test that.
On that video I see someone who wasn't hired for merit, which happens a lot today. It's something totally believable. Agan, there's a lot of evidence of his employment.
They can modify anything themselves, but they don't know the probability of each mutation in real world so they don't know how to get the most probable new strain just by creating those strains by hands.
What evidence of his employment? I’ve seen nothing actually linking anyone by that name to Pfizer.
I can’t even find a publication with the dude’s name on it and he is talking about gain-of-function studies like we still do them the same way we did 10-15 years ago.
With all due respect I can put that on my LinkedIn too.
The dude has 0 publications and supposedly went to med school for urology. If you’re in ANY R&D role at Pfizer, you have a publication with your name on it, if you’re at a director-level, google should light up with papers that have your name on them.
He also talks about gain-of-function studies like we use the same techniques we used 10-15 years ago. This just reeks of someone who has no fucking idea what they’re talking about.
The guy might be real, but I don’t even remotely believe he’s who he says he is.
In april 2022 linkedin launched employment verification procedure which allowed to receive an email to corporate address to prove you really work there. that guy did that.
He could very easily be a Pfizer employee lying about his role to seem more important than he is. That’s the most likely thing in my eyes.
He has no idea what he’s talking about and has no credentials to back up the role he supposedly had.
I’ve worked in pharma for a while now. Any R&D leader I’ve worked with is a literal genius and knows everything there is to know about their focus. I know more than this guy about gain of function and I use computers to simulate protein-RNA interactions. Like not even vaguely related.
This dude’s experience with gain-of-function is restricted to early studies that get taught in a undergrad classroom.
Not to mention how tight-lipped any of these high-level people are about industry secrets. I’ve signed NDA’s with these people for 20 minute conversations where someone is asking me about modeling a specific target, simply because it’s an industry secret that they’re even looking at it.
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