If the debate over the coronavirus’s origins has proven anything, it’s that there is far too little oversight of the scientific community, especially when it comes to risky experimental research. It says a lot about Dr. Anthony Fauci that he seems to disagree.

During a recent interview, Fauci insisted that the experiments Wuhan scientists performed on various coronavirus strains were “good and proper” and that the United States’s decision to support research in the region was necessary. Fauci has denied that this research qualified as gain-of-function, though there’s a strong argument to be made that it does.