The meme is via PatriotPost. Thomas Gallatin reports:
Rand Paul Was Right — Fauci Lied
“NIH … categorically has not funded gain-of-function research.” Yes
it has.
National Institutes of Health
official Lawrence Tabak issued a letter Wednesday admitting that the agency did
indeed provide funding for gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of
Virology via the U.S. nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance. That’s a big problem for
more than one reason.
Tabak writes that NIH funding went
to a “limited experiment” in which a test was conducted to see if “spike
proteins from naturally occurring bat coronaviruses circulating in China were
capable of binding to the human ACE2 receptor in a mouse model.” The modified
coronavirus did
make the mouse “become sicker” than the non-modified virus.
While Tabak avoids using the term
“gain-of-function,” it is clear from his descriptions that such research is
exactly what he admits the NIH funded. That the NIH was involved in funding
gain-of-function research should come as a surprise to no one, as Anthony Fauci
himself had been a longtime proponent of the controversial practice.
Back in 2012, Fauci argued in
support to gain-of-function research, contending:
“Scientists working in this field might say — as indeed I have said — that the
benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks. It
is more likely that a pandemic would occur in nature, and the need to stay
ahead of such a threat is a primary reason for performing an experiment that
might appear to be risky.”
Fauci’s clearly favorable views of
this research would also explain why he chose not to alert White House
officials in 2017 when he lifted the ban on the practice. It also appears to
explain why the NIH’s funding of gain-of-function was not direct but funneled
through EcoHealth Alliance, giving Fauci the cover to later claim that the NIH
was not directly involved in funding gain-of-function research.
Yet when Senator Rand Paul (R-KY)
pressed Fauci over NIH funding, an irate and contentious Fauci retorted: “You
do not know what you are talking about. … If anybody is lying here, Senator, it
is you! … You are entirely and completely incorrect. The NIH has not ever and
does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of
Virology.”
Just in case someone wasn’t clear,
Fauci added, “I will repeat, the NIH … categorically has not funded
gain-of-function research to be conducted in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
We knew this before, but now even
the NIH is tacitly admitting that Fauci lied not only to Senator Paul in sworn
testimony but to the American public. . . .
Read the rest here. It's scary, because too many people I know still rely on the mainstream media for news propaganda.
See also JD Rucker's report at NOQ on the NIH's funding of gain-of-function research.
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