Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic
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Dr. Fauci acknowledged that the lab-leak hypothesis is not a conspiracy theory.
This comes nearly four years after prompting the publication of the now infamous "Proximal Origin" paper that attempted to vilify and disprove the lab-leak hypothesis.
Robbie Soave:
In recent months, Fauci has denied he ever categorically rejected the possibility that COVID-19 accidentally escaped from a laboratory. But he faces very serious allegations that he deterred scientific experts from considering it. At issue is "The Proximal Origin of Sars-CoV-2," a paper that appeared in Nature Medicine, a scientific journal, in March 2020 at the very start of the global pandemic. Fauci--who was then head of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)--and Francis Collins--then director of the National Institutes of Health--participated in a conference call with the authors, whose initial openness to a lab leak explanation changed significantly prior to publication. The paper ultimately ruled out a lab leak as not just "unlikely"--the phrasing used in an early draft of the paper--but "improbable."
More recently, Fauci has contended that he always remained open to the idea, but was persuaded by scientific arguments--including those in the proximal origin paper--that a zoonotic spillover was more likely. This claim would be more persuasive if Fauci had not stated over and over and over and over again, in media interviews, that he "strongly favored" the zoonotic origin theory; his subsequent suggestion that he did not lean in either direction is flatly contradicted by his literal words.
Matt Orfalea put together a supercut showing Anthony Fauci repeatedly dismiss the lab leak theory he now claims he was "open" to.
More from Robbie Soave:
It was certainly in Fauci's interest to downplay the possibility that human experimentation on viruses accidentally unleashed COVID-19 upon the world; during his career, Fauci remained one of the foremost advocates of public funding for gain-of-function research, in which scientists manipulate viruses in order to make them deadlier and more transmissible. Fauci and other public health experts have straightforwardly denied that the U.S. funded such research in Wuhan, China, but critics say this is an exercise in semantics. Indeed, EcoHealth Alliance--a U.S. nonprofit that obtained public funding to conduct research on bat coronaviruses in Wuhan, China--was caught actively misleading Pentagon officials about the nature of the experimentation: Peter Daszak, the head of EcoHealth Alliance, advised colleagues to deceive regulators about the fact that the research would be conducted in China under laxer lab safety standards.
A cadre of elite scientists deliberately lied to U.S. security officials in order to spend American tax dollars performing risky experiments under substandard laboratory conditions in a notoriously secretive and authoritarian foreign country.
He also points out that the propaganda media rushed to help Fauci squelch any questions about the Official Story on covid's origins.
Related: Ron DeSantis' Surgeon General declares that the covid jab, much celebrated by Trump even to this very day, is not safe or appropriate for human beings due to their capability of making unwanted revisions to human DNA.
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced on Wednesday that his office is advising against further use of Covid-19 shots, citing the lack of existing safety data and concerns over DNA integration.
"Providers concerned about patient health risks associated with COVID-19 should prioritize patient access to non-mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and treatment," Ladapo said in a statement. "It is my hope that, in regard to COVID-19, the [Food and Drug Administration] will one day seriously consider its regulatory responsibility to protect human health, including the integrity of the human genome."
Wednesday's recommendation came following a back-and-forth between the Florida Department of Health (FLDOH) and the FDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). On Dec. 6, Ladapo submitted a letter to the federal agencies questioning the "safety assessments and the discovery of billions of DNA fragments per dose of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 mRNA vaccines." The Florida surgeon general specifically cited a recent pre-print study that found "billions to hundreds of billions of DNA molecules per dose in these vaccines" and "preliminary evidence of a dose response relationship of the amount of DNA per dose and the frequency of serious adverse events."
In his letter, Ladapo pressed the FDA and CDC about whether drug manufacturers have evaluated the risks associated with DNA contaminants from the Covid shots and the "DNA integration from the lipid nanoparticle delivery system." As Ladapo explained, lipid nanoparticles act as an "efficient vehicle for delivery of the mRNA in the COVID-19 vaccines into human cells, and may therefore be an equally efficient vehicle for delivering contaminant DNA into human cells."
Ladapo also questioned the FDA's existing safety standards and whether it and the CDC have probed the "risk of DNA integration in reproductive cells with respect to the lipid nanoparticle delivery system."
According to the Florida Department of Health's Wednesday press release, the FDA responded to Ladapo on Dec. 14 with a note that purportedly contained "no evidence" any analyses of DNA integration had been undertaken to "address risks" the agency itself had raised in years prior.
"DNA integration poses a unique and elevated risk to human health and to the integrity of the human genome, including the risk that DNA integrated into sperm or egg gametes could be passed onto offspring of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine recipients," Ladapo said. "If the risks of DNA integration have not been assessed for mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, these vaccines are not appropriate for use in human beings."
But I'm reliably informed that you can barely tell the difference between Trump and DeSantis on these issues.