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.
BUT, BUT, BUT, EVERYONE DOES IT! Sounds like the argument a teenager makes to their parents.
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.
Newsweek, LMAO!!!