Posted on 05/28/2021 1:27:07 PM PDT by RandFan
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Anthony Fauci defended “gain-of-function” research in 2012 — wherein scientists extract viruses from the wild and engineer them to infect humans in order to study potential therapeutics including vaccines — as research worth risking a pandemic over.
“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?” Fauci wrote in a paper reported on by The Australian. “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.”
The revelation of Fauci’s 2012 defense of the research comes as new reports emerge, breathing new life into the lab-leak theory among the political establishment that dismissed the origin hypothesis, which was always credible, as a conspiracy theory.
Reporting on previously undisclosed intelligence this month, the Wall Street Journal published a story of three researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology who were hospitalized with COVID-like symptoms in November 2019, preceding the pandemic’s first outbreak in the Hubei province. The lab, known for its relaxed safety protocols, was reportedly collaborating with the Chinese military and conducting gain-of-function research into bat coronaviruses, according to the Trump State Department in a fact sheet not disputed by officials in the Biden administration.
Two years after Fauci’s defense of the high-stakes research, the U.S. government deemed the work so dangerous it was banned. According to longtime journalist and former New York Times science writer Nicholas Wade, however, Fauci circumvented the U.S. moratorium and supported gain-of-function with grant money from the NIAID funneled through EcoHealth Alliance, operated by Dr. Peter Daszak. .
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Fauci acknowledged that a gain of function super virus could escape a lab and cause a pandemic, but that it is worth the risk. His naïveté should disqualify him from government service.
His criminality should lend him in a small locked room for the rest of his life…
Agree, completely.
I sense a retirement in Fauci’s near future. He’ll never testify to Congress again.
Is that all he will get. He deserves a trial. We deserve him to be tried
“The benefits outweigh the risks”
Who stands to get the benefits and who is taking the risk.
I’m not risking my behind so Fastball Fauci can buy a boat.
Fauci may well be as homicidally deranged as Madame Pelosi.
Yes, I do believe she’s the kind of woman who would call in favors from like-minded cohorts in the CDC, the WHO and the worldwide media in order to fashion the world’s latest virus into a deadly, panic-inducing, planet-destroying plague.
And all because Donald Trump offended her monumental ego.
“Fauci In 2012: Gain-Of-Function Research Into Bat Viruses Is Worth The Risk Of A Pandemic”
Please inform me as to how gain of function of a virus is not meant to make it more transmissible and deadly.
Simple. Fauci was a loose cannon that fired randomly and it hurt Trump so he was a hero of the left. But Trump is gone and Fauci continued to be a loose cannon. So he needed to be crushed. Suddenly he's being portrayed as incompetent or sinister or both. He's being shelved, plain and simple.
“””“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?” Fauci wrote in a paper reported on by The Australian. “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.””””
And indeed I and many others have said — that the benefits of locking up Fauci in Solitary Confinement for the rest of his Natural Life and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks.
Gee, it’s almost as if he planned it.
Gee, it’s almost as if he planned it.
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He planned it. He funded it. He denied it. He admitted it.
“ None of this is new. It’s all been known for a year or more. Anyone who said it was shut down as a conspiracy theorist nut. Why is it allowed to be spoken of now?”
Saying it again for those who never heard it because it was conversation was shut down on the msm and all of social media. It’s now being discussed openly for the first time.
The original article written by Fauci seems to be unavailable. Anyone found the original 2012 piece from American Society for Microbiology? Surely there are more nuggets to be found.
The original story came from the Australian.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/anthony-fauci-backed-virus-experiments-despite-pandemic-risk/news-story/3c604681cfcbfeda88bac25e372a1b8a
A couple more quotes:
“An investigation by The Weekend Australian has also confirmed Dr Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, did not alert senior White House officials before lifting the ban on gain-of-function research in 2017.”
“I think there’s truth in the narrative that the (National Security Council) staff, the president, the White House chief-of-staff, those people were in the dark that he was switching back on the research.”
Fauci needs to be held accountable. I’m not saying that he created COVID-19. Of course not, but if NIH gave money to Wuhan Lab which had researched gain of function on COVID-19, then there should be hell to pay.
Gain of function: lovely euphemism you have there, Doctor.
The great un-masking continues! Expose LORD expose. Let freedom reign!
This guy is going to end up next to Dr. Mengele and Dr. Kevorkian in the history books.
Probably no one single government official has ever caused more devastation. He needs to be tried for crimes against humanity and executed.
The thing that is so hard to believe is that his reasons were so banal…all about his power and prestige.
3.5 million dead people, and millions more with irreputable harm would disagree with Der Fauci. Hang the clown, just do it. There can’t be a fair trial that would find him guilty with the Deep State.
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