There have been some intriguing developments related to the key “experts” who were trusted to disseminate actual scientific information during the early stages of the covid pandemic, and who were trusted to develop and enact policy based on the facts. This may have been easy to miss, given the recent obsession of the American media over the Barbie move and summer temperatures.
Legal Insurrection readers will recall that Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) chief Dr. Anthony Fauci and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul got into some spectacular exchanges during congressional hearings about the potential for gain-of-function research being funded at the Wuhan Institute of Virology using American tax dollars.
Now Paul has formally accused Fauci of lying under oath over his knowledge of dangerous virus research in China.
DailyMail.com can reveal Senator Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland last week calling for an investigation into whether Dr Fauci, 82, committed perjury when he testified in front of a Senate committee in 2021.In a showdown with Republicans, including Sen Paul, in July that year, Dr Fauci testified that his former department ‘has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.’Dr Fauci was the former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) until the end of 2022 and was responsible for signing off on research grants.Yet newly released emails dated February 1, 2020 show Fauci acknowledged that ‘scientists in Wuhan University are known to have been working on gain-of-function experiments to determine that molecular mechanisms associated with bat viruses adapting to human infection, and the outbreak originated in Wuhan.’
Related to Fauci’s statements on the WIV research is the paper he helped generate to obfuscate the possible lab origins of the coronavirus. As a reminder:
That paper, titled “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2,” was sent to Fauci for editing in draft form and again for final approval before it was published in Nature Medicine on Feb. 17, 2020. It was written four days after Fauci, and his NIH bossDr. Francis Collins, held a call with the four authors to discuss reports that COVID-19 may have leaked from the Wuhan lab and “may have been intentionally genetically manipulated.”The House Oversight subcommittee published emails Sunday in which the paper’s co-author Dr. Kristian Andersen admits Fauci “prompted” him to write the paper with the goal to “disprove” the lab leak theory.
It turns out the authors of that paper found the lab leak theory far more credible than we were led to believe (hat-tip Ace of Spades HQ).
A team of investigative journalists, who include Michael Shellenberger, have made a cache of email exchanges about their thoughts on covid origins available on the Substack account, Public. It contains a number of gems, including from co-author Kristian Anderson:
The scientists were far more suspicious of a lab origin than was previously known. The clearest example of this was when Andersen said on February 1, 2020, “I think the main thing still in my mind is that the 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.” In fact, the original name of the channel was “project-wuhan_engineering” until February 6, when Andersen changed it to “project-wuhan_pangolin.”
Senator Paul recently went and The Laura Ingraham Show, and had this today about “Proximal Origin” and Fauci.
“This was never about science. This is about this business of science. Follow the money trail: This was about billions of dollars exchanging hands in the first few months of 2020. The people came out and said, “nothing to see here…couldn’t have happened in the lab”.There has probably never been a cover-up in this history of all politics that has been so completed documented that they were lying to us. Every one of their emails say, “O, my goodness, it looks like it comes from the lab.” This looks like it was manipulated…and it goes on, and on, and on.
Paul notes at the conclusion of the interview that he has referred Fauci to the Attorney General for prosecution.
As a scientist and a journalist, I am furious at everyone who contributed to this destructive lie. I spent hours looking for alternative information when the “facts” presented failed to make sense.
I can only hope Fauci and the others are held accountable. Perhaps not under Garland, but maybe in a new administration? Hope springs eternal.
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