I wouldn’t disagree. I’m here to skull fuck arguments at their roots. So giving them their faulty premises and still shutting them down is 2 thumbs up in my book.
They’re literally arguing that the organization that would get in trouble, or at least look very very bad, for funding this type of research with the main hostile (and fascistic) regime, at a facility run by the former head of bio-weapons division for said country...that organization says that it isn’t GOF research, because they said so. Even though that contradicts their own definition of GOF. It’s like letting a detective investigate a murder in which they are the main suspect. It’s absurd.