Alina Chan is a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, and a co-author of Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19. She was a member of the Pathogens Project, which the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists organized to generate new thinking on responsible, high-risk pathogen research.

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Nancy Rommelmann is an investigative journalist, columnist, and author. Her on-the-ground reporting includes covering the war in Ukraine, the fight over abortion rights in Kansas City, and Donald Trump’s New York trial. Her work appears in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Reason Magazine, and elsewhere, and she posts on her Substack - titled “Make More Pie” about “Portland, New York, media, murder, culture, and pie - both literal and figurative.” She also co-hosts the Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em podcast with Sarah Hepola.

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