Commentary Trust, we’re told, takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair. Right now, Americans’ trust in government is low—and for good reason. Despite months of denial, documents recently obtained by The Intercept clearly show that both the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the neighboring Wuhan University Center for Animal Experiment, “along with their collaborator, the U.S.-based nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance,” knowingly engaged in “gain-of-function research.” In other words, viruses were intentionally made “more pathogenic or transmissible”—all in the name of science, of course. As The Intercept noted, this type of research took place “despite stipulations from a U.S. funding agency that the money not be used for that purpose.” In an interview with Newsweek, American molecular biologist Richard Ebright argued that the documents clearly show “that NIH [National Institutes of Health] grants were used to fund controversial gain-of-function (GOF) research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in …