NIH official finally admits taxpayers funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan

[Anti Federalist]

Now...when are some sons of bitches going to jail?


NIH official finally admits taxpayers funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan

https://nypost.com/2024/05/16/us-ne...social&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter

By Josh Christenson

Published May 16, 2024, 3:11 p.m. ET

It’s about time!

At long last, National Institutes of Health (NIH) principal deputy director Lawrence Tabak admitted to Congress Thursday that US taxpayers funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China in the months and years before the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Dr. Tabak,” asked Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.) of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, “did NIH fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology through [Manhattan-based nonprofit] EcoHealth [Alliance]?”

“It depends on your definition of gain-of-function research,” Tabak answered. “If you’re speaking about the generic term, yes, we did.”

The response comes after more than four years of evasions from federal public health officials — including Tabak himself and former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director Dr. Anthony Fauci — about the controversial research practice that modifies viruses to make them more infectious.

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[Anti Federalist]

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[TheTexan]

Now...when are some sons of bitches going to jail?

 

[Anti Federalist]

I know, right?

 

[jmdrake]

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Yeah...yeah....I heard it before. So when do we get to prosecute Fauci? It's not like Fauci didn't say back in 2012 that he didn't care if there was a pandemic from his research.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fauci-ar...SWTma 6qJENrd_7WS_17oLTdf81kVyEGkKzfeD-qD6V8

Despite the risks involved, Fauci called gain-of-function experiments “important work” in his 2012 writing:

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? Many ask reasonable questions: given the possibility of such a scenario – however remote – should the initial experiments have been performed and/or published in the first place, and what were the processes involved in this decision?

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. It is more likely that a pandemic would occur in nature, and the need to stay ahead of such a threat is a primary reason for performing an experiment that might appear to be risky.

Within the research community, many have expressed concern that important research progress could come to a halt just because of the fear that someone, somewhere, might attempt to replicate these experiments sloppily. This is a valid concern.
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If only I had the skill to put Dr. Fauci's face on this video.

Yeah. People would rather prosecute Trump for how he paid off his (alleged) hooker.

 

[TheTexan]

Yeah. People would rather prosecute Trump for how he paid off his (alleged) hooker.

And people sometimes wonder why I have no hope for mankind.