I'd like to point out that I don't think Dr. Sam Bailey wrote the statement, she is just one of the signatories and she posted it on her website. I think Tom Cowan wrote most if not all of it and this is why he is the first signatory. Anyway, as far as I know, virology is the only alleged field of science wherein isolate doesn't actually mean to separate something from other things. Do you know of any other exceptions?     You can't map out the genome of something if you haven't