Early this week, House Republicans released e-mails to and from Anthony Fauci and his boss, Francis Collins, heads of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease and National Institute for Health.
Those e-mails again proved Fauci lied about U.S. subsidies that paid for potentially catastrophic gain-of-function virus experiments in Red China. Those experiments turn naturally-occurring viruses into super-pathogens that can infect people.
Disclosed by Representatives James Comer of Kentucky and Jim Jordan of Ohio, the cybermissives also reveal something else: The two men were well aware that top scientists believed the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen leaked from the poorly run lab.
Later, they lied about that, too. They called the idea a “conspiracy theory.” As did the leftist mainstream media.
The E-mails
It wasn’t a “conspiracy theory,” and they well knew it, as The New American reported about e-mails released in June. An e-mail dated February 1, 2020 showed that a top scientist told Fauci the virus was “potentially engineered.” They also showed that Peter Daszak — the head of EcoHealth, which funneled the forbidden gain-of-function subsidies to Wuhan — thanked Fauci for helping “dispel the myth” that mad scientists in China created the super bug.
The e-mails disclosed this week show the same thing. Dated February 2-4, 2020, they followed a conference call between Fauci, Collins, Jeremy Farrar of the Wellcome Trust, and others.
The excerpts show Fauci and Collins knew the virus likely sprung from a lab, and that Collins was extremely concerned about keeping that information under wraps.
Farrar wrote to Fauci, Collins, and Lawrence Tabak, principal deputy director at NIH, with “some thoughts overnight from others,” meaning other scientists:
He is bothered by the furin site and has a hard time explain[ing] that as an event outside the lab (though, there are possible ways in nature, but highly unlikely).…
So, I think it becomes a question of how do you put all this together, whether you believe in this series of coincidences, what you know of the lab in Wuhan, how much could be in nature — accidental release or natural event? I am 70:30 or 60:40.
Farrar E-mail
In other words, the scientist was almost certain the virus was created in and sprung from the lab in Wuhan.
“I really can’t think of a plausible natural scenario where you get from the bat virus or one very similar to it to nCoV,” another top scientist said, “where you insert exactly 4 amino acids 12 nucleotide that all have to be added at the exact same time to gain this function — that and you don’t change any other amino acid in S2? I just can’t figure out how this gets accomplished in nature.”
Collins, who left NIH at the end of 2021, wrote back to say he was worried about conspiracy theorists running amok with the truth.
“I share your view that a swift convening of experts in a confidence inspiring framework (WHO seems really the only option) is needed, or the voices of conspiracy will quickly dominate, doing great potential harm to science and international harm.”
Foucheir E-mail
Another virologist explained that “debate about such accusations would unnecessarily distract top researchers from their active duties and do unnecessary harm to science in general and science in China in particular.”
China, of course, was interested in the gain-of-function experiments because they could produce a viral bioweapon, as The New American reported.
In April, Collins asked what could be done to stop the truth from emerging:
Wondering if there is something NIH can do to help put down this very destructive conspiracy, with what seems to be growing momentum:
I hoped the Nature Medicine article on the genomic sequence of SARS-CoV-2 would settle this.
Collins was referring to an article that he and Fauci helped prepare to “debunk” the “conspiracy theory.”
Lab Leak
In October, answering an inquiry from Comer, Tabak confirmed that Fauci lied when he repeatedly testified before a Senate committee that his agency did not subsidize gain-of-function research in Wuhan. If he didn’t lie, then Fauci, 80, simply doesn’t know what his agency is doing.
Richard Ebright, head of the Waksman Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University, was unequivocal about what Fauci, Collins, and other pushed out to protect themselves:
“The NIH — specifically, Collins, Fauci, and Tabak — lied to Congress, lied to the press, and lied to the public,” he tweeted. “Knowingly. Willfully. Brazenly.”
H/T: The Telegraph
