I'd like to see Daszak be grilled by Ron Paul in a Senate hearing.
Dr. Peter Daszak, president of the EcoHealth Alliance of New York, with Dr. Anthony Fauci
Posted on 05/16/2021 6:32:27 PM PDT by RandFan
Paul: Instead, government authorities, self-interested in continuing gain-of-function research, say there's nothing to see here.
There may be some truth to the assertion of self-interest. The international community of virologists is relatively small, and they tend to know one another. Peter Daszak, head of EcoHealth Alliance, which has been the main conduit for NIH research funds on coronaviruses to the Wuhan lab in China, and has worked closely with scientists in China, has been criticized for having a conflict of interest in his role as a member of the World Health Organization team that investigated the origins of SARS-CoV-2. More widely, scientists who do GOF research may be more confident about the safety of their work than the long history of lab accidents would suggest. Authorities at the NIH and elsewhere have tended to side with the natural-origin theory, the most salient counter-example being Robert Redfield, who cast his lot in with the GOF crowd shortly after stepping down as the head of the Centers for Disease Control. But it would stretch credulity to imply any significant monetary self-interest.
Paul: To arrive at the truth, the U.S. government should admit that the Wuhan Virology Institute was experimenting to enhance the coronavirus' ability to infect humans.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology, under the direction of Dr. Shi Zengli, was clearly doing GOF experiments before the pandemic arose. But GOF work is now commonplace. The real scandal is not that the Wuhan Institute was doing GOF work, it's that everyone does it. That, and not the Wuhan lab origin theory, is what we should all be arguing about.............
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Newsweek “fact checkers”? What’s the problem...weren’t there any Amazon Compost “fact checkers” available?
Another snip I found interesting because it shows even Newsweek think Fauci is being very careful with his wording:
False, says Marc Lipsitch, the Harvard epidemiologist and one of the original members of the Cambridge Working Group. “It is just a fabrication to say we have made any statement as a group about work in Wuhan.”
Fauci: Well, it is not. If you look at the grant and you look at the progress reports, it is not gain-of-function, despite the fact that people tweet that and write about it.
In an interview last year, Baric maintained that some work that involves enhancing viruses in the lab turns out to produce viruses that are actually less viable than what experimenters started with, so they haven’t necessarily “gained” any “function.” This is probably what Dr. Fauci is referring to.
They sure have to use a lot of weasel words to come up with a “false” on many of Paul’s statements.
Now there’s a deflection. “The real story is not that the Wuhans were doing GOF research — the real story is that EVERYONE does it. Presto! Nullification.
The fallacy of it is that no one else’s lab released death and depression onto the world. So let me deflect back to the Rand Paul assertion. Plenty of smoke, plenty of fire, plenty of there-there.
The fact is that Fai=uci was out of control. If any president knew clearly what Fauci was doinig, he would have been stopped.
ut like a borrowing parasite, Fauci manipulated funding to assure that the dangerous research was done, and secondly that his own ass was covered,
Fauci is parsing his words very closley now, meaning that he knows that he bears both responsibility and liability for traducing his own nation.
Rand Paul needs to hit him hard with facts. NOW.
I'm sure if the release had happened from an American lab that had been doing forbidden research, Newsweek would have been quick to say "everyone does it."
BUT, BUT, BUT, EVERYONE DOES IT! Sounds like the argument a teenager makes to their parents.
Anyone that does gof experiments in the USA is BREAKING the LAW.
Nothing will happen.
Don’t fool yourself.
Rand is right, but there are no consequences.
The elites released a man-made pandemic virus, no consequences.
The election was stolen, no consequences.
We know the truth though and we have a responsibility to get it out there and keep pecking away.
More agenda-driven journalism from Newsweek. It's a shame. They have actually printed some good stuff recently, including an article by John Lott.
There is much more detail and objectivity in this excellent long article by Nicholas Wade:
https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/
Wade does not cut Fauci any slack.
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Posted on May 16, 2021
COVER UP? Wuhan Lab DELETES Connections To Fauci And N.I.H. From Website
According to a report from The National Pulse, The Wuhan Virology Lab has removed connections to Fauci and The N.I.H. from its webpages.
If it looks like a coverup then it just may be.
Great post by the way Candor. They admit Trump admin shut him down. Then they moved it to Wuhan through this complex web.
The facts are coming out slowly but surely. Rand has got his number that’s for sure. He can detect Fauci’s BS like the rest of us..
Baric maintained that some work that involves enhancing viruses in the lab turns out to produce viruses that are actually less viable than what experimenters started with, so they haven’t necessarily “gained” any “function.”
yeah??? well, it’s not for a lack of trying
Fred:
have you seen this video:
https://banned.video/watch?id=609af3cbb493572075b0c04a
I believe Tucker showed some of it this week on his show..
Tchad:
Daszak is on video bragging about creating coronaviruses:
https://banned.video/watch?id=609af3cbb493572075b0c04a
From the article you posted :
Virologists like Daszak had much at stake in the assigning of blame for the pandemic. For 20 years, mostly beneath the public’s attention, they had been playing a dangerous game. In their laboratories they routinely created viruses more dangerous than those that exist in nature. They argued that they could do so safely, and that by getting ahead of nature they could predict and prevent natural “spillovers,” the cross-over of viruses from an animal host to people. If SARS2 had indeed escaped from such a laboratory experiment, a savage blowback could be expected, and the storm of public indignation would affect virologists everywhere, not just in China. “It would shatter the scientific edifice top to bottom,” an MIT Technology Review editor, Antonio Regalado, said in March 2020.
As I noted in this comment last week
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3959012/posts?page=27#27
Fauxi didn’t technically lie. It’s not about ‘gain of function’ (GOF), but GOF research of concern (GOFROC).
It’s Newsweak; spdr.
Newsweek, LMAO!!!
I'd like to see Daszak be grilled by Ron Paul in a Senate hearing.
Dr. Peter Daszak, president of the EcoHealth Alliance of New York, with Dr. Anthony Fauci
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