TWiV reviews the administration’s call for fools gold-standard science, NIH may publish in-house, avian influenza viruses in birds in China, and Omicron pathogenicity and immune responses.

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Links for this episode * Support science education at MicrobeTV * Fool’s Gold Standard Science (Nature) * NIH may publish in-house (Stat News) * Diversity of H9N2 in China (Nat Micro) * Omicron and immunity (Cell Rep) * Letters read on TWiV 1225 * Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

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