书籍 Viral的封面

Viral

Alina Chan

出版社

Fourth Estate

出版时间

2021-11-16

ISBN

9780008487492

评分

★★★★★

标签

科学

书籍介绍
在《Viral》中,两位作者通过对新冠病毒起源的深入调查,挑战了传统观点并提出了实验室泄漏的可能性。他们追踪从蝙蝠、SARS病毒到武汉实验室的线索,揭示了一个可能早已适应人类传播的病毒背后的复杂故事。书中不仅探讨了科学界对疫情起源的研究进展,还涉及了国际社会对此问题的态度和反应。
作者简介
Dr. Alina Chan is a postdoctoral researcher specializing in medical genetics, synthetic biology, and vector engineering. She works at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, focusing on developing advanced vectors for human gene therapy. Concurrently, during the Covid-19 pandemic, she investigated the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Matt Ridley, on the other hand, is a renowned science writer with a BA and DPhil from Oxford, where he studied the evolution of behavior. He has served as a science editor, Washington correspondent, and American editor for The Economist. Ridley's influential books, including "The Red Queen," "The Origins of Virtue," "Genome," and "Nature via Nurture," have reached a wide audience and have been translated into multiple languages.
推荐理由
《Viral》一书深入探讨了新冠病毒的起源,从铜矿到海鲜市场,从野生动物到实验室,通过详尽的研究和调查揭示病毒传播的复杂路径。书中不仅呈现了关于病毒起源的各种猜测与证据,还展现了病毒对全球社会的影响,并以科学严谨的态度引发读者对病毒与人类关系的思考。
适合哪些人读
对新冠病毒起源感兴趣的读者
关注全球公共卫生事件的人群
希望了解科学研究过程及其挑战的科学家与研究者
关心实验室安全及生物技术监管政策制定者。
用户评论
漏网之鱼。故事讲得好。文傻判断力有限就不打分了。
大概梳理了关于covid origin的相关讨论 主要还是围绕ecohealth alliance和WIV gain of function 的话题 其实论点就是一个 burden of proof应该在wiv和其政府一方 没啥毛病 但是不指望最后会水落石出
Intriguing and impressive. Hope scientists worldwide can find and confirm the origin of Covid-19 before long.
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