Posted on 05/28/2021 6:13:42 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared to defend gain-of-function research as “important” despite its pandemic “risk” in a 2012 paper exposed by The Australian. The National Pulse can also reveal similar comments from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director during a 2012 conference focused on the controversial form of research.
Hosted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the December event – “Gain-of-Function Research on HPAI H5N1 Viruses” – counted Fauci as a speaker during the introductory session.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director appears to defend gain-of-function research, which increases the virulence and lethality of infectious diseases, as “integral.” He also describes his agency as “the major funders of most but not all of these people” who carry out the form of research. SLIDE FROM FAUCI’S PRESENTATION.
Fauci acknowledges the potential drawbacks of gain-of-function research, noting there was “concern” that the “products or information generated by these experiments might be used by others in a way that could harm society either carelessly, in an unregulated fashion, by inexperienced people, or even by deliberate misuse.” SLIDE.
The unearthed comments follow increased scrutiny over the NIAID Director’s ties – via personnel and funds – to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
WATCH: YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BACqqgRpktA&t=2085s
Writing for the American Society for Microbiology in October 2012, Fauci also posited that the risky form of research could “trigger” a pandemic:
“In an unlikely but conceivable turn of events, what if that scientist becomes infected with the virus, which leads to an outbreak and ultimately triggers a pandemic?”
*****“Scientists working in this field might say – as indeed I have said – that the benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks,” he adds before alleging it is “more likely” that a pandemic would occur naturally in the paper first reported by The Australian’s Sharri Markson.
“We cannot expect those who have these concerns to simply take us, the scientific community, at our word that the benefits of this work outweigh the risks, nor can we ignore their calls for greater transparency, their concerns about conflicts of interest, and their efforts to engage in a dialog about whether these experiments should have been performed in the first place,” Fauci added.
“Those of us in the scientific community who believe in the merits of this work have the responsibility to address these concerns thoughtfully and respectfully,” he reiterates in the paper.
WATCH: Gain-of-Function Research on HPAI H5N1 Viruses
YOUTUBE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BACqqgRpktA&t=2085s
Fauci has been fascinated by Pandora’s Box.
It’s like they didn’t think we’d find this ! They really think we’re stupid. There are consequences for that.
Isn’t this an accusation that Fauci said was nonsense, completely untrue, and that the person who originally made (Senator Rand Paul) didn’t understand the scientific basis of?
This Troll should be in a Hardcore Prison.
Dr. Mengele wannabe.
Like the Bidens, that CCP cash is hard to pass up.
Fauci has been fascinated by Pandora’s Box.
More fascinated with money and power. He wanted a bigger budget to get more power.
Fauci know the dangers of the research he was supporting possibly cause a pandemic.... it is like the moth to the candle....
And after it happened HE FANNED THE FLAMES OF COVID SPREADING WITH INFORMATION TO STOP THE SPREAD BUT REALLY INCREASED THE SPREADING. HE WAS ADDICTED TO THE THOUGHT OF LETS SEE WHAT HAPPENS....SICK BASTARD, MAD SCIENTIST.
fauzi should be earthed. 6’ social distancing below us...or deeper to the fires of hell.
I am no fan of Fauci and have not been since the early contradictions. His scorn of HCQ (and by proxy, our President) was the final straw for me.
Grant money is what made him Uncle Sugar in the world of infectious diseases. Not just here in the US either.... he gave our money to the world.
Scientist and researchers are very dependent on grants. “Gain of Function” or other viral research is a good hook for taxpayer money from Mr Deep Pockets (aka Fauci). Fauci was essentially told by the Obama administration to not do this yet despite the executive telling him not to do this he knew better as a 40 year bureaucratic God?
I am beyond angry. What a frikking moronic idea this was.... let us fund research at a Chinese lab controlled by the CCP who have a bioweapons program AND a crap record of lab safety.
You cannot make this up. We the people have clearly lost control of our government. What kind of dumbass do you have to be to fund any kind of weaponizable research at a Chinese lab?
The arrogance of these people is shocking.
Fauchi does not deserve to be the”go to guy” for U S health. His interests do not appear to be the health of U S families.
And they should be swift and certain. Capital offense, how many million counts of murder?
You know they’re going to give Fauci the medal of freedom or some such prestigious award for doing his part.
Of course, then the Nobel Prize for Medicine, Physics, Chemistry and the Piece Prize. It will be nauseating.
He lied his a** off to Rand. I see retirement in Fauci’s future. Fauci can’t win at this point.
Gotcha
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