The Fauci Files

[George K]

https://www.thefp.com/p/anthony-faucis-deceptions

But last month, a trove of explosive emails and other documents were released by the U.S. House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. These revealed evidence of Fauci’s and other officials’ behind-the-scenes involvement with scientists and journalists, demonstrating their efforts to quash the lab leak theory.

The recently disclosed private communications lay bare that the “highly qualified” authors of the paper that Fauci had asserted in April 2020 likely disproved a lab leak—what became known informally as the “Proximal Origin” paper—actually had extensive uncertainty about the virus being the result of a natural event. This was grossly at odds with what became their published position.

The paper that Fauci recommended was published on March 17, 2020. But in February, just the month before, Kristian Andersen, one of the paper’s authors, wrote a Slack message to his colleagues saying: “[T]he lab escape version of this is so friggin’ likely to have happened because they were already doing this type of work and the molecular data is fully consistent with that scenario.”

Robert Garry, another co-author, wrote on Slack the same month: “It’s not crackpot to suggest this could have happened, given the Gain of Function research we know is happening.” Ian Lipkin, yet another co-author, emailed on February 11 that there was the “possibility of inadvertent release. . . at the institute in Wuhan. Given the scale of bat CoV research pursued there and the site of emergence of first human cases we have a nightmare of circumstantial evidence to assess.”

[LuFins Dad]

Beat me to it.

[Jolly]

Rand Paul wants to bring charges against Fauxi.

Would be interesting...

[taiwan_girl]

I dont understand the reasoning to try and "quash" the potential lab leak. I could see maybe the Ministry of Foreign Affairs putting pressure to do so, so not to upset the Chinese and political "fallout" from that.

[jon-nyc]

If you work in virology research the last thing you want is outsiders deciding what you are allowed to do and how you’re allowed to do it.

So basically anyone involved in virology is conflicted on this topic.

[Jolly]

You know, if you work in virology, it might be a good idea not to be associating with a laboratory that is using gain of function research to create bioweapons for the Chinese PLA.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in The Fauci Files:

If you work in virology research the last thing you want is outsiders deciding what you are allowed to do and how you’re allowed to do it.

So basically anyone involved in virology is conflicted on this topic.

@Jolly said:

You know, if you work in virology, it might be a good idea not to be associating with a laboratory that is using gain of function research to create bioweapons for the Chinese PLA.

Actually, when there's supposedly evidence that the US funded some GoF research in Wuhan, you shouldn't tell Congress that it didn't happen.

[Jolly]

I suspect very few Congress critters knew that money was going to Wuhan.

[George K]

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/fauci-knew-nih-funded-wuhans-gain-of-function-research-as-pandemic-began-email-reveals/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=breaking&utm_campaign=newstrack&utm_term=32611776