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Never said it was unusual. Just said we should treat both fairly.

I give the presumption of innocence, therefore my first instinct is to not question the source of Malone's income unless something arises to plant the seed of doubt. An expert in his field raising questions about the efficacy and safety of a drug is not enough, in and of itself, to assume guilt of some sort.

I would give the same presumption of innocence to Fauci, if it were not for reports like this one from July 14, 2021 as reported in The Federalist: What Did Fauci Know And When? His Emails Point To Panic, Lies, And A Possible Cover-Up.

Recently released e-mails show that Dr. Anthony Fauci knew key facts about the origins of COVID-19 in January 2020. But at that critical time, when the country was first learning about the virus, Dr. Fauci chose not to share the facts with Americans. Instead, he acted to conceal them.
On January 31, 2020, at 10:32 p.m., Dr. Fauci received an email from British researcher, Dr. Kristian Andersen. Dr. Andersen has received millions of dollars in grants from the NIH. In the email, he warned Dr. Fauci:
[O]ne has to look really closely at all the sequences to see that some of the features (potentially) look engineered . . . Eddie [Holmes], Bob [Garry], Mike [Ferguson] and myself all find the genome inconsistent with evolutionary theory.
Two hours later, at 12:29 a.m. on February 1, Dr. Fauci emailed his long-time deputy, Dr. Hugh Auchincloss. In the email, Dr. Fauci attached a paper written by Dr. Ralph Baric and Dr. Zhengli-Li Shi – the so-called “bat woman” from Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). The paper highlighted taxpayer-funded gain-of-function research on coronaviruses conducted by the WIV. Dr. Fauci told Dr. Auchincloss:
It is essential that we speak this [morning]. Keep your cell phone on . . . read this paper . . . you will have tasks today that must be done.
Urgency. Intensity.
Two hours later, at 2:48 a.m., Dr. Fauci sent another email, to Dr. Robert Kadlec. Dr. Kadlec was the Trump-appointed Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the Department of Health and Human Services. Attached to this email was an article that downplayed the lab leak and advocated for an evolutionary origin to COVID-19. Dr. Fauci simply wrote:
Bob: This came out today. Gives a balanced view.
No urgency. No intensity.
Why was Dr. Fauci so concerned when emailing his deputy but so calm when emailing his boss? Why didn’t he send Dr. Kadlec the Baric-Shi paper? The paper that supported the original message from Dr. Andersen that COVID-19 looked engineered, was inconsistent with evolutionary theory, and linked American tax dollars to gain of function research at the WIV.
Later that morning, at 11:47 a.m., Dr. Auchincloss replied to Dr. Fauci:
The paper you sent me says the experiments were performed before the gain-of-function pause but have since been reviewed and approved by NIH. Not sure what this means since [we are] sure that no coronavirus work has gone through the P3 framework. [We] will try to determine if we have any distant ties to this work abroad.
Wow! Dr. Auchincloss’ email confirms Dr. Fauci’s worst fear. American tax dollars funded gain of function research at the WIV and that research didn’t go through proper oversight (the P3 framework).
[more about what happened next at the link above]

We learned back in July 2021 that Fauci was acting inconsistently, apparently playing both ends (his boss and his direct reports) against the middle (himself). The rest of the link provides more details.

Now, just the other day, new facts are emerging about this event from recently found emails released by Rep. Jim Jordan and the House Oversight and Reform Committee. These emails begin to reveal what the rest of the above article questioned.

Having known about this story since July 2021, this is why I lean towards suspecting Fauci, but lean towards not suspecting Malone. Fauci was acting like someone with something to hide, and Malone was not.

I think I've treated both of them fairly, given the facts known at the time and facts recently revealed.

-PJ