The Department of Health and Human Services Framework for Guiding Funding Decisions about Proposed Research Involving Enhanced Potential Pandemic Pathogens (PPPs) contains a series of principles for governing the funding and conduct of gain-of-function (GOF) research resulting in the creation of PPPs. In this article, I address one of these principles, governing the replacement of GOF research with alternate experiments. I argue that the principle fails to address the way that different experiments can promote the same values as those promoted by GOF research resulting in PPPs. I then address some objections to this claim, and provide policy recommendations moving forward.
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Evans, N. G. (2018). Ethical and philosophical considerations for gain-of-function policy: The importance of alternate experiments. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 6(FEB). https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2018.00011
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