[Forwarded from COVID-19 Up]
Renowned Molecular Biologist Accuses Fauci of Lying to Congress About Gain-of-Function Research

??@COVID19Up: Rutgers University microbiologist Dr. Richard Ebright testified (https://www.c-span.org/video/?....522133-1/hearing-vir before the U.S. Senate on Wednesday (August 3) that top public health officials lied about dangerous gain-of-function (GoF) research experiments conducted in Wuhan, China.

Ebright said (https://dailycaller.com/2022/0....8/03/anthony-fauci-g that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other U.S. federal agencies funded research that fit the definition of GoF at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) without proper oversight.

Specifically, Ebright testified that research funded by federal agencies at the WIV in the 2010s violated an NIH pause on GoF research funding between 2014 and 2017. After the pause was lifted in 2017, Ebright claimed that GoF projects which continued did not properly go through the agency’s regulatory process for oversight.

“Gain-of-function research of concern involves the creation of new health threats–health threats that did not exist previously and that might not have come to exist by natural means for tens, hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of years,” Ebright said.

“The statements made on repeated occasions to the public, to the press and to policymakers by the NIAID director, Dr. Fauci, have been untruthful. I do not understand why those statements are being made because they are demonstrably false,” Ebright explained.

Ebright’s assertion that the NIH-funded research is GoF work directly contradicts previous testimony by Fauci before the U.S. Senate.

“The NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain of function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” Fauci said in May 2021. “Dr. Baric does not do gain of function research and if it is, it is according to the guidelines and is being conducted in North Carolina, not in China.”

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