"Surprise Surprise - Fauci Lied Again": Rand Paul Reacts To Wuhan Bombshell

"Surprise Surprise - Fauci Lied Again": Rand Paul Reacts To Wuhan Bombshell

BY TYLER DURDEN

WEDNESDAY, SEP 08, 2021 - 05:44 AM
Senator Rand Paul weighed in Tuesday following a Monday bombshell from The Intercept which revealed that Dr. Anthony Fauci's NIAID and its parent, the NIH, funded Gain-of-Function research in Wuhan, China. Recall that Fauci called Paul a 'liar' for accusing him of funding the risky research, in which viruses are genetically modified or otherwise altered to make them more transmissible to humans.
"Surprise surprise – Fauci lied again," Paul tweeted on Tuesday, including a link to Richard H. Ebright's thread (below).

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Senator Rand Paul
@RandPaul

Surprise surprise - Fauci lied again And I was right about his agency funding novel Coronavirus research at Wuhan. Read this thread and the papers released.

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Richard H. Ebright
@R_H_Ebright

"NEWLY RELEASED documents provide details of US-funded research on..coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.. The Intercept has obtained more than 900 pages of documents detailing..work of..EcoHealth Alliance..at the Chinese lab.."https://interc.pt/3yN1YIj

7:10 AM · Sep 7, 2021

When Dr. Anthony Fauci confidently screamed at Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) in July - calling him a liar for accusing him of funding so-called "Gain-of-Function" (GoF) research in Wuhan, China to make coronaviruses more transmissible to humans, the argument ultimately fadeddue to Fauci's unsupported claim that the research didn't technically fit the definition of GoF.

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Now, thanks to materials (here and here) released through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by The Intercept against the National Institutes of Health (which were unredacted enough to toss Fauci under the bus), we now know that Fauci-funded EcoHealth Alliance, a New York-based nonprofit headed by Peter Daszak, was absolutely engaged in gain-of-function research to make chimeric SARS-based coronaviruses, which they confirmed could infect human cells.
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https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=0DkW_uZqPeter Daszak (left), Anthony FauciWhile evidence of this research has been pointed to in published studies, the FOIA release provides a key piece to the puzzle which sheds new light on what was going on.
"This is a roadmap to the high-risk research that could have led to the current pandemic," said Gary Ruskin, executive director of U.S. Right To Know, a group that has been investigating the origins of Covid-19 (via The Intercept).

https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=BYa18wZNWuhan Institute of Virology Shi 'Bat Lady' Zhengli toasts with Fauci-funded EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak (emerging viruses group photo)

And as Rutgers University Board of Governors Chemistry Professor Richard H. Ebright notes, "The documents make it clear that assertions by the NIH Director, Francis Collins, and the NIAID Director, Anthony Fauci, that the NIH did not support gain-of-function research or potential pandemic pathogen enhancement at WIV are untruthful."
In short, Fauci lied to Congress when he denied funding Gain-of-Function (GoF) research.

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The Recount
@therecount

Jul 20, 2021

“Senator Paul, you do not know what you are talking about.”— Dr. Fauci after Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) accuses him of lying to Congress about gain-of-function research in Wuhan lab.

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The Recount
@therecount

“If anybody is lying here, Senator, it is you.”— Dr. Fauci to Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY).

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11:08 AM · Jul 20, 2021

Ebright summarized The Intercept's reporting in a Monday night Twitter thread:

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Richard H. Ebright
@R_H_Ebright

Sep 6, 2021

"NEWLY RELEASED documents provide details of US-funded research on.. coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.. The Intercept has obtained more than 900 pages of documents detailing..work of..EcoHealth Alliance..at the Chinese lab.."

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New Details Emerge About Coronavirus Research at Chinese Lab
More than 900 pages of materials related to US.-funded coronavirus research in China were released following a FOIA lawsuit by The Intercept.

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Richard H. Ebright
@R_H_Ebright

"The trove of documents includes two previously unpublished grant proposals that were funded by the NIAID, as well as project updates relating to the EcoHealth Alliance’s research, which has been scrutinized amid increased interest in the origins of the pandemic."

9:33 PM · Sep 6, 2021

Continued (emphasis ours):
"The trove of documents includes two previously unpublished grant proposals that were funded by the NIAID, as well as project updates relating to the EcoHealth Alliance’s research, which has been scrutinized amid increased interest in the origins of the pandemic."
The materials show that the 2014 and 2019 NIH grants to EcoHealth with subcontracts to WIV funded gain-of-function research as defined in federal policies in effect in 2014-2017 and potential pandemic pathogen enhancement as defined in federal policies in effect in 2017-present.
(This had been evident previously from published research papers that credited the 2014 grant and from the publicly available summary of the 2019 grant. But this now can be stated definitively from progress reports of the 2014 grant and the full proposal of the 2017 grant.)
The materials confirm the grants supported the construction--in Wuhan--of novel chimeric SARS-related coronaviruses that combined a spike gene from one coronavirus with genetic information from another coronavirus, and confirmed the resulting viruses could infect human cells.

https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=Pb3k3PAI(Recombinant DNA includes molecules constructed outside of living cells by joining natural or synthetic DNA segments to DNA molecules that can replicate in a living cell, or molecules that result from their replication. -Science Direct)The materials reveal that the resulting novel, laboratory-generated SARS-related coronaviruses also could infect mice engineered to display human receptors on cells ("humanized mice").
The materials further reveal for the first time that one of the resulting novel, laboratory-generated SARS-related coronaviruses--one not been previously disclosed publicly--was more pathogenic to humanized mice than the starting virus from which it was constructed...
...and thus not only was reasonably anticipated to exhibit enhanced pathogenicity, but, indeed, was *demonstrated* to exhibit enhanced pathogenicity.
The materials further reveal that the the grants also supported the construction--in Wuhan--of novel chimeric MERS-related coronaviruses that combined spike genes from one MERS-related coronavirus with genetic information from another MERS-related coronavirus.
The documents make it clear that assertions by the NIH Director, Francis Collins, and the NIAID Director, Anthony Fauci, that the NIH did not support gain-of-function research or potential pandemic pathogen enhancement at WIV are untruthful.
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When asked in the replies where to find specific evidence on GoF research, user @SnupSnus replied:

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Simon Lackner
@SnupSnus

Sep 6, 2021

Replying to @princetongb and @R_H_Ebrightp495 in the reader p170 in the actual document page numbering in the "understanding risk one" talks about the infection experiments in humanised mice with chimeric virus with swaped chimeric Spike, but I just keyword searched, @R_H_Ebright will have to guide you here

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Simon Lackner
@SnupSnus

the same page is also numbered page 11- whoever made all those numberings set us up for lot's of confusion, "3.3.c humanised mouse experiments"

10:05 PM · Sep 6, 2021

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counterpopp
@counterpopp

Replying to @SnupSnus @princetongb and @R_H_Ebrightthere is an easy clue; the acknowledgments section of the paper attached in Fauci's panicked e-mails obtained via FOIA. this is the work "expressing the spike of bat coronavirus SHC014 in a mouse-adapted SARS-CoV backbone".

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11:12 PM · Sep 6, 2021

Alina Chan, a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute, said the documents show that the EcoHealth Alliance has reason to take the lab leak theory seriously. “In this proposal, they actually point out that they know how risky this work is. They keep talking about people potentially getting bitten — and they kept records of everyone who got bitten,” Chan said. “Does EcoHealth have those records? And if not, how can they possibly rule out a research-related accident?” -The Intercept

In response to inquiries from The Intercept, EcoHealth communications manager Robert Kessler replied: "We applied for grants to conduct research. The relevant agencies deemed that to be important research, and thus funded it. So I don’t know that there’s a whole lot to say."
Stay tuned, things should get really interesting for Fauci and Daszak in the near future.

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Marco Mazzocco, CFA
@MarcoMNYC

So we paid the CCP to develop the virus that they unleashed on the world…Not surprising…The media will probably dig into this now just to avoid the Afghanistan disaster but that’s not going away anytime soon either ..

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Josh Caplan
@joshdcaplan

Chemical biology professor Richard Ebright: "The documents make it clear that assertions by NIH Director, Francis Collins, and NIAID Director, Anthony Fauci, that the NIH did not support gain-of-function research or potential pandemic pathogen enhancement at WIV are untruthful." https://twitter.com/R_H_Ebright/stat...3505169944579…

11:33 PM · Sep 6, 2021 from Manhattan, NY

To review the history of EcoHealth, Fauci and Gain-of-Function research which we noted in March:
In 2014, Peter Daszak, president of New York-based nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance, received a grant from Dr. Anthony Fauci's National Institutes of Health (NIH) to work with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and others to research how bat coronaviruses can 'evolve and jump into the human population.'

https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-pu...?itok=TozOHtu7 Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth AllianceThe grant's initial funding of $666,442 began in June 2014 with an end date of May 2019, and had paid annually to the tune of $3.7 million under the "Understanding The Risk Of Bat Coronavirus Emergence" project. Notably, the Obama administration cut funding for "gain-of-function" research in October, 2014, four months after Daszak's contract began, while the Wuhan Institute of Virology "had openly participated in gain-of-function research in partnership with U.S. universities and institutions" for years under the leadership of Dr. Shi 'Batwoman' Zhengli, according to the Washington Post's Josh Rogin.

One of the grants, titled “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence,” outlines an ambitious effort led by EcoHealth Alliance president Peter Daszak to screen thousands of bat samples for novel coronaviruses. The research also involved screening people who work with live animals. The documents contain several critical details about the research in Wuhan, including the fact that key experimental work with humanized mice was conducted at a biosafety level 3 lab at Wuhan University Center for Animal Experiment — and not at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, as was previously assumed. The documents raise additional questions about the theory that the pandemic may have begun in a lab accident, an idea that Daszak has called “heinous.”
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The grant was initially awarded for a five-year period — from 2014 to 2019. Funding was renewed in 2019 but suspended by the Trump administration in April 2020. -The Intercept

After Rogin exposed diplomatic cables last April expressing grave concerns over safety at WIV, he says: "many of the scientists who spoke out to defend the lab were Shi’s research partners and funders, like the head of the global public health nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance, Peter Daszak; their research was tied to hers, and if the Wuhan lab were implicated in the pandemic, they would have to answer a lot of tough questions."
In short, Daszak - who has insisted the 'lab escape' theory is impossible, and that random natural origin via intermediary animal species is the only answer - has a massive conflict of interest.

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Bobby Rajesh Malhotra ツ ψ
@Bobby_Network

@PeterDaszak on Gain of Function-experiments, Dec. 2019:"You can manipulate them in the lab pretty easily" "... inserting the spike protein into a backbone of another virus""[...] insert these other related diseases and get a better vaccine.”Peter?http://bit.ly/3sNBxQv

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2:29 PM · Feb 28, 2021

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Alina Chan
@Ayjchan
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Mar 10, 2021

If Daszak has seen the WIV pathogen database and it is also EcoHealth’s data, why not just post the spreadsheet for the public to evaluate? No need to put up a website susceptible to hacking.

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Roger Pielke Jr.
@RogerPielkeJr

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In response to a question about why WIV took done a database of over 16,000 virus sequences, Dr. Peter Daszak replies by vouching for his colleagues at WIV & says he knows what is in the dataset and there is nothing relevant there, so the WHO mission did not ask for it

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Alina Chan
@Ayjchan

Furthermore, the biggest clue to SARS2’s zoonotic origins are those closest virus relatives in bat caves in Yunnan, China that have been frequently sampled by various labs over the past decade.Why not search there first?

11:16 AM · Mar 10, 2021

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Alina Chan
@Ayjchan
Mar 10, 2021

Replying to @AyjchanI think we should let Daszak give more public webinars.

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永遠名譽會長 Luke
@McWLuke

Here's the moment @PeterDaszak confirms he DID NOT ask for the data from the MISSING BAT VIRUS DATABASE.

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Alina Chan
@Ayjchan

Does this count as a form of self-investigation?If you’re charged with investigating data/records that you were a part of, and you tell the rest of the team they don’t need to audit the records because you already know there’s nothing relevant in there and can close the case?

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3:55 PM · Mar 10, 2021

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