Posted on 08/03/2022 3:22:02 PM PDT by Missouri gal
Rutgers University microbiologist Dr. Richard Ebright testified before the U.S. Senate Wednesday that top public health officials lied about dangerous gain-of-function (GoF) research experiments conducted in China.
[Dr. Richard Ebright of Rutgers University] testified that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other U.S. federal agencies funded research that fit the definition of GoF at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) without proper oversight. His claim directly contradicts those made by numerous public health officials, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)...“The statements made on repeated occasions to the public, to the press and to policymakers by the NIAID director, Dr. Fauci, have been untruthful."
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Fraudchi is a huckster, that’s what they do.
IBTFR$$s smear this molecular biologist.
Chants to lock him up are air. He needs fire
Say it in simple English Dr. Ebright - Fauchi is a LIAR!
Just another conspiracy that turned out to be true.
Of course Shi was doing GoF research:
Shi returned to her lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and resumed the work she had started on genetically engineering coronaviruses to attack human cells. How can we be so sure?
Because, by a strange twist in the story, her work was funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a part of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). And grant proposals that funded her work, which are a matter of public record, specify exactly what she planned to do with the money.
The grants were assigned to the prime contractor, Daszak of the EcoHealth Alliance, who subcontracted them to Shi. Here are extracts from the grants for fiscal years 2018 and 2019. (“CoV” stands for coronavirus and “S protein” refers to the virus’s spike protein.)
“Test predictions of CoV inter-species transmission. Predictive models of host range (i.e. emergence potential) will be tested experimentally using reverse genetics, pseudovirus and receptor binding assays, and virus infection experiments across a range of cell cultures from different species and humanized mice.”
“We will use S protein sequence data, infectious clone technology, in vitro and in vivo infection experiments and analysis of receptor binding to test the hypothesis that % divergence thresholds in S protein sequences predict spillover potential.”
What this means, in non-technical language, is that Shi set out to create novel coronaviruses with the highest possible infectivity for human cells. Her plan was to take genes that coded for spike proteins possessing a variety of measured affinities for human cells, ranging from high to low. She would insert these spike genes one by one into the backbone of a number of viral genomes (“reverse genetics” and “infectious clone technology”), creating a series of chimeric viruses. These chimeric viruses would then be tested for their ability to attack human cell cultures (“in vitro”) and humanized mice (“in vivo”). And this information would help predict the likelihood of “spillover,” the jump of a coronavirus from bats to people.”
More at link:
https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/
Some here may not like the source, but this is the best article I have found that lays out how and why SARS-CoV-2 most likely leaked from that leaky Wuhan lab. Yes, it’s long, but well worth the read.
I can understand why they wanted to tamp down any speculation Covid came from the Wuhan lab early on. First, there was considerable anger about the outbreak and many would have considered it a causus belli. Second, we were dependent on China for such basic things as PPE for our healthcare workers. Third, we funded Shi’s research via the NIH. Fourth, we shared key technologies with her and taught her at least one of the crucial steps for creating SARS-CoV-2 right here on American soil. Five, the Trump administration lifted the moratorium on GoF research in 2017. Scandals abound, and don’t stop at the Chinese border.
I agree Fauci & Friends will continue to lie. But it's time to uncover the truth now. We need to take steps to prevent this happening again, at least insofar as we can. We need to stop being dependent on China for essential goods, including vital medical supplies. We need to reassess GoF research. IMHO, the very real risks outweigh any theoretical benefits. We also need to rethink sharing dual-use technologies with China. China is not our friend.
If I withheld food and water from my child and it died, then I would likely be charged with murder.
Fraud Fauci lied about effective drug treatments for C-19 and people died as a result. That makes Fauci a murderer.
the “i health covid 19 antigen rapid test” that is being distributed and used under “fda emergency use authorization” is made in china...
biologically correct women can pee on a stick to determine pregnancy results...
kinda strange our government is distributing and requiring people to shove chinese made products up their noses to determine test results for anything at this point in time...
A Russian who is Pro vax, Pro MNRA Jab and didn’t belive SARS-CoV-2 was created in a Lab, did a little of his own research and determined it was most likely created in a Lab, in April 2020
Nothing anyone has said since has disproven any of his claims. Russian disinformation, indeed.
(and many would have considered it a causus belli)
And if done on purpose, rightfully so.
Then there’s the little issue of Fauci funding it.
Incredible, the havoc loosed upon the world.
I don’t think they did it on purpose. But there was so much anger at that time about it, imagine if it had been known to be a lab leak and all the rest.
I think they may have suspected the lab workers who fell ill in September(?) may have been infected by a bug they were cooking in that lab and kept mum about it. I think as more cases popped up, they continued to keep mum until the little outbreak exploded at those “superspreader” events in Wuhan and it could no longer be hidden.
Whether they kept silent about it because that’s the commie way, and they hoped it would not turn into a pandemic and they could just hide it, or whether they figured they were better off if the rest of the world suffered the consequences along with them, I don’t know. Probably the former, but still wrong. Maybe it doesn’t matter because there was no way this thing would not spread beyond China once it got loose from the lab and tore through the city of Wuhan.
Yes, incredible. Which is why the moratorium on this type of GoF research. Outsourcing it to a leaky Chinese lab was beyond foolish. In my opinion, it should be stopped a!together. It’s crazy there is no apparently no movement to stop it. Instead they’ve got people all worked up over “Climate Change”, which we can do little about.
Thanks! I’ll give it a read!
(I don’t think they did it on purpose)
Well ....... Who knows
Those things don’t just walk out of the lab by themselves. (You didn’t claim that of course)
Either by malice, crime or accident.
🤔🤔🤔
Well, we know from Shi’s own statements they were messing with those bat viruses in BSL-2 and BSL-3 labs at the Wuhan Institute, even though it contained that new BSL-4 lab. And we know our State Department inspections found their safely practices left a lot to be desired, even in the BSL-4 lab. We also know lab workers there fell sick with a Covid-like illness in the fall of 2019, three of whom had to be hospitalized, and these were the first apparent cases.
It sounds like it was an accident waiting to happen to me.
If it was intentional, why were the lab workers the first apparent cases? And why would they intentionally release such a contagious virus in one of their own cities before they had a vaccine or even treatment for that novel virus? In the same city where they had a lab known to be messing around with those viruses? I suppose there *may* have been a mentally ill lab worker who intentionally released it, which would be a crime, but that seems pretty far-fetched.
(If it was intentional, why were the lab workers the first apparent cases?)
Depends upon what “proof” we have of anything. And it’s very hard to trust; especially with the Chinese who go through people like lab mice.
Of course we can totally trust Dr. F.....😜
Two weeks to flatten the curve
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.