{"product_id":"the-code-as-witness-9781641774710","title":"The Code as Witness","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe origin of COVID-19 has sparked relentless debate since 2020. But if we truly follow the science, the evidence for a lab-based beginning is undeniable. In The Code as Witness, physician-scientist Steven Quay delves into the virus’s genome, tracing compelling clues encoded into the virus’s genetic material that point directly to human engineering.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut this book’s mission isn’t just to settle the debate on COVID-19’s inception; it’s a wake-up call and a call to action. While the COVID-19 pandemic may be fading, the threat of future outbreaks looms— outbreaks that could be far deadlier. Irresponsible gain-of-function research, like the kind that created SARS-CoV-2, is accelerating at an alarming rate, unregulated and unchecked.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book urges a collective reckoning and highlights the critical need to rein in gain-of-function experiments that toy with viral lethality or supercharge airborne transmission. If left unchecked, such research could lead to pandemics that are far more devastating than COVID-19. In these pages, Quay lays out a comprehensive set of policy changes at the federal and international level that, if implemented, could prevent a future, deadlier outbreak, while still allowing important research to continue. The days of treating high-stakes virus manipulation as a “Wild West” science must end—before it ends civilization as we know it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Steven Carl Quay","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48170261938427,"sku":"9781641774710","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_96d3495e-e83a-405e-82d2-234ebf3c8f05.jpg?v=1778605940","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-code-as-witness-9781641774710","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}