Fauci Knew NIH Funded Gain-of-Function Research at Wuhan Lab, Pressured Scientists to Push ‘Natural’ COVID Origins, Leaked Messages Reveal

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by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D., Childrens Health Defense:

Recently leaked emails and Slack conversations reveal Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted the National Institutes of Health funded dangerous gain-of-function research at Wuhan lab despite denying it in Senate testimony, and that he colluded with the “Proximal Origin” authors to push the “natural” COVID-19 origins theory.

In what has been described as an accidental disclosure, messages embedded within a report released last week by the U.S. House of Representatives’ Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic include an admission by Dr. Anthony Fauci that gain-of-function research was being conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).

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The leaked messages also include Slack conversations between several scientists who co-authored “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” (“Proximal Origin”), a scientific article that concluded SARS-CoV-2 was “not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus. The conversations revealed that the scientists had discussed the possibility that the virus did in fact originate in a lab.

“Proximal Origin” was published in Nature Medicine on March 17, 2020, and according to The Intercept, “played a leading role in creating a public impression of a scientific consensus that the virus had emerged naturally in a Chinese ‘wet market.’”

According to the Daily Wire, the messages were likely “accidentally disclosed” due to “faulty image cropping” in the report originally released by the committee. The previously redacted portions support the the report’s conclusion that the paper “was a product of politics and deception rather than honest scientific rigor” and a “conspiracy to cover up the likely origins of COVID-19.”

The 55-page House interim report, released July 11, followed the committee’s “comprehensive investigation into the suppression of the lab-leak hypothesis by America’s leading public health officials through the drafting, publication and critical reception of the infamous ‘The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2’ (‘Proximal Origin’) publication.”

After the embedded images were discovered by online researchers and an published by The Epoch Times and others, the committee removed the original report from its website, replacing it with a new file that omitted the embedded images.

However, online researchers salvaged the original version of the report and have posted it online, along with instructions on how to locate and view the embedded content.

These revelations contradict previous testimony by Fauci and two of the co-authors of “Proximal Origin.” Scientific and medical experts who spoke with The Defender said the latest revelations confirm long-held suspicions.

Cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough told The Defender:

“The evidence indicates Fauci, Francis Collins, Kristian Andersen, Edwin Holmes, and a cadre of scientists understood that Dr. Ralph Baric, the NIAID [National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases] under Fauci, Peter Daszak, Ph.D. at EcoHealth Alliance and Shi Zhengli, Ph.D. at the Wuhan Institute of Virology had created a prototype SARS-CoV-2 chimeric virus and published this accomplishment in 2015 in two papers (NaturePNAS).

“Understanding he played a role in the creation of a global security crisis, Fauci conspired to cover up this atrocity with a government narrative and a series of fraudulent papers proclaiming the virus did not come out of the lab. This is intentional fraud as plain as day.”

Collins is the former director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Kristian Andersen, Ph.D., is a professor of immunology and microbiology at the Scripps Research Institute and Edward Holmes, Ph.D. is a professor of virology at Australia’s  University of Sydney. Andersen and Holmes were among the co-authors of “Proximal Origin.”

Rutgers University molecular biologist Richard Ebright, Ph.D., a critic of gain-of-function research, told The Defender:

“The released messages make it clear that Andersen and Garry made knowingly and willfully false statements in their February 2020 preprint, their March 2020 published paper, their 2020-2023 press comments, their 2020-2023 social media posts and their 2023 Congressional testimony.

“The released messages also make it clear that Fauci, Collins and Jeremy Farrar, Ph.D. prompted and orchestrated the false statements.

“The released messages provide a rare glimpse of the ‘Proximal Origins’ fraudsters speaking truthfully, and explicitly contradicting their false claim that ‘Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.’”

Farrar, then-head of the Wellcome Trust, is now chief scientist at the World Health Organization.

Francis Boyle, J.D., Ph.D., a bioweapons expert and professor of international law at the University of Illinois who drafted the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, said “Fauci and Collins must be held criminally responsible for all of this.”

‘Fauci lied, people died’

Under the headline “Dr. Fauci Lied, People Died,” Justin Hart author of the “Rational Ground” Substack, presented the unredacted version of a Feb. 1, 2020 email from Fauci, “which has been haunting many of us for over two years.”

The email was one of the documents that was apparently mistakenly embedded in the House committee’s report last week.

A heavily redacted version of the email, with only the text “Folks: The call with Jeremy Farrar (Wellcome Trust)” visible, was made available in September 2022, following a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request submitted by U.S. Right to Know.

However, the full unredacted version of the email was embedded within the original file containing the committee’s July 11 interim report.

According to Hart, “The unredacted version email is an astounding indictment of how disingenuous Dr. Fauci has been and a keen example on how his team at the NIH and NIAID have abused the redaction process.”

In the email, Fauci apparently referred to a Feb. 1, 2020 conference call with Farrar, Collins and several of the scientists who later co-authored “Proximal Origin.” In his message, he apparently acknowledged that gain-of-function research was being conducted at the WIV.

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