The perpetrators in government and media would like to move on from the question of COVID-19’s origin as quickly as possible. We shouldn't let them.
During a conference call on Feb. 1, 2020, Dr. Anthony Fauci and National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins implored a group of esteemed international scientists to produce a paper that would discredit the lab leak theory of COVID-19’s origins.
In a subsequent email obtained by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, Collins urged the swift production of the paper. In his view, the absence of a strong case for a “natural origins” theory of COVID-19 would allow ”the voices of conspiracy to quickly dominate, doing great potential harm to science and international harmony.
It would seem Fauci perjured himself during congressional testimony on the matter in 2021 by stating that “The NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.” This was flatly contradicted by NIH Principal Deputy Directorthat the NIH did, in fact, fund gain-of-function research at the WIV through the shady nonprofit organization EcoHealth Alliance.
MSNBC host Chris Hayes, for example, called the lab leak theory a concoction of the “right wing” and declared that the virus “was not man-made. … That is not a possibility.” Years later, Hayes offered the partial concession that “
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