Ukraine’s research labs are vital to global health. Disinformation aimed at their work puts everyone in danger.Russia's conspiracy theory endangers the the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, a longstanding international effort that actually prevents bioweapons labs from operating.Photograph: Ali Shahgholi/Getty Images
Representatives of Russia have unleashed an onslaught of misinformation to justify the invasion of Ukraine. One strand of dis info has sent a chill though Cold War vets, but some assertions are comically absurd. The United States funded laboratories in which Ukraine made biological weapons.