The greatest trick Ralph Baric ever played was convincing the world he didn’t exist

Remember Ralph Baric? Baric is the University of North Carolina virologist who has spent the last 30 years working with coronaviruses. He’s especially good at making “chimeric” coronaviruses. That’s a fancy way of saying he jams pieces of different natural viruses together, often to see if the new artificial one will be good at infecting […]