Head of the NIH, and Anthony Fauci's Superior, Francis Collins: Now That You Have Me Here Under Oath and Pain of Perjury, I Guess Maybe the Lab Leak Wasn't a "Conspiracy Theory" Like I Repeatedly Claimed When I Wasn't Under Oath

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Now Anthony Fauci's former boss Francis Collins concedes Covid lab leak was NOT a conspiracy - despite spearheading attacks against scientists who touted theory

Francis Collins was instrumental in the publication of the natural origins theory

Dr Collins said to have hidden NIH involvement in funding gain of function work

By Cassidy Morrison Senior Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com

Anthony Fauci's former boss admitted to Congress that the Covid lab leak theory was credible - despite previously calling it a 'very destructive conspiracy'.

Dr Francis Collins, former head of the National Institutes of Health, testified in a closed-door session with the House coronavirus subcommittee on Friday about his role during America's pandemic response.

Dr Collins was involved in suppressing the theory that Covid likely escaped from a Chinese biolab, a theory which implicated the sprawling agency he headed up. It was previously revealed that the NIH oversaw grants funding risky 'gain of function' research to make viruses more transmissible and/or deadly.

In a significant U-turn, House Republicans who led the hearing revealed that Dr Collins, 73, told them that the lab leak hypothesis was not a conspiracy theory.

His answers were similar to those of Dr Fauci, who sat for a marathon 14 hours of questioning last week when he finally acknowledged that the lab leak theory -- that Covid escaped from a Chinese biolab -- should not have been so easily dismissed.

Republicans also said that, like Dr Fauci, Dr Collins muddied the definition of gain of function research 'in an effort to hide the NIH's involvement in funding the dangerous research in Wuhan.'

I am not sure how they play loosey-goosey with the definition, but my personal head-cannon is that they are claiming that "gain of function" only results from a direct rewriting of genetic code, through, say, the CRISPR genetic editing process. And they are claiming that other methods of changing a viruses DNA, such as repeated "serial passage" through mice, knowing and intending that the DNA will mutate with every single run through a living host, doesn't count as "gain of function" because it's "natural" or some shit, even though it's just another method of achieving the same result -- mutating a virus until it becomes different and more infections and more deadly to human beings.

If anyone can confirm that, or dispel that, please let me know.

The questioning also zeroed in on the "Proximal Origins" paper. Fauci ordered two of the men his NIAID was providing grants to to phony-up a "scientific" paper smearing those who favored the lab-leak theory as a "conspiracy theory" and claiming that it was nearly impossible that the covid-19 virus could have been made in a lab.

In fact, many scientists pointed to specific sites on the virus, including the notorious furin cleavage site, that could only have been made in a lab. And which looked exactly like the furin cleavage sites of other viruses made in a lab.

Fauci and Collins hid the fact that they were the ringleaders (and, indirectly, the funders) of this paper, then cited the paper as supposedly independent research backing up their claims.

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The sainted doctors are said to have pushed for the publication of an influential scientific paper that shaped the narrative that Covid originated in nature while discrediting the theory that gain of function was the cause.

The centerpiece of questioning pertained to the March 2020 'Proximal Origins' paper, in which scientists said the theory that gain of function research triggered the release of a genetically modified coronavirus from the Wuhan Institute of Virology was 'improbable.'

Ohio Republican Brad Wenstrup, who heads the Covid subcommittee in the House, said: 'Dr. Collins acknowledged that Dr Fauci invited him to attend the infamous February 1, 2020 conference call that prompted the "Proximal Origin" publication.

'This testimony directly contradicts Dr. Fauci's previous statements and raises further concerns about the U.S. government's role in suppressing and vilifying the lab-leak hypothesis.'

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Drs Fauci, Collins, and other authors of the Proximal Origins paper have denied that the top doctors strongarmed the researchers into publishing one theory over another, though bombshell emails made public last spring by Republicans showed that Dr Kristian Andersen, a co-author of the paper, wrote that '[This paper was] Prompted by Jeremy [Farrar], Tony Fauci and Francis Collins.'

An earlier investigation completed by House Republicans uncovered an email Dr Collins sent to Dr Fauci two months after the 'Proximal Origins' paper was published that said: 'I hoped the Nature Medicine article on the genomic sequence of SA RS-CoV-2 would settle this... Wondering if there is something NIH can do to help put down this very destructive conspiracy ... Anything more we can do?'

Collins also smeared the epidemiologists who wrote the "Great Barrington Declaration" as "fringe epidemiologists."

During his closed-door testimony, Dr Collins also stood firm on his previous statements denouncing the Great Barrington Declaration.

This petition criticized government efforts to shut down the economy, including schools, and favored isolating just those people at the highest risk of severe illness, such as the elderly.

Collins sent an email to Dr Fauci in October 2020 saying the ideas from 'fringe' epidemiologists who wrote the declaration required a 'quick and devastating published take down.'

The widespread lockdowns that dominated most of 2020 have since been found to have inflicted harm on people's mental health, particularly in children, who were barred from attending school in person, extracurricular activities such as sports teams, and spending much-needed time with peers.

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Dr Collins also mimicked Dr Fauci's murky definition of 'gain of function' research 'in an effort to hide the NIH's involvement in funding the dangerous research in Wuhan,' according to Rep Wenstrup.

Dr Fauci was also accused of 'playing semantics' during his closed-door testimony last week, when he backtracked on earlier claims that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases never allocated government money to gain of function research.

He had insisted to Senators last summer that his former department 'has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.'

Yet, emails dated February 1, 2020, showed Fauci acknowledged that 'scientists in Wuhan University are known to have been working on gain-of-function experiments to determine that molecular mechanisms associated with bat viruses adapting to human infection, and the outbreak originated in Wuhan.'

Via David Strom, who comments:

Before you express contempt for those people, realize that the consequences of not being able to trust any of the information fed to you is not just dispiriting but incredibly burdensome and destructive to a society that depends on social trust. We all depend on trust to a great extent, especially in complicated societies like our own. Capitalism and our Republic depend on reasonable levels of integrity; corrupt societies like Russia stumble along and are always on the brink of failure.

We shouldn't have to research everything. We have lives to live and families to enjoy.

Which makes the betrayal of our elites a calamity. We can't trust anybody anymore. Our government is corrupt. Our medical institutions are corrupt. Our bureaucracies are corrupt. And, worst of all, the media is corrupt--because we need the media to hold everybody else in check.

The likeliest explanation for why the NIH and Fauci hid the origins of the virus is that they paid to develop it through grants to the EcoHealth Alliance. It's no shock they would move heaven and earth to cover that up--most people would cover it up. Who wants to be held responsible for mass murder, even if it was an accident?

If we had real media they could help us discover the truth and hold people responsible. But we don't.

The media are just propagandists for the officially-sanctioned lies of the Regime.

In further alarming news, a study says that covid-19 shots are linked to autism,at least in rats.

A study from Turkey discovered that female rats injected with mRNA COVID-19 vaccines gave birth to offspring exhibiting symptoms of autism and lower neuronal counts in the brain.

The peer-reviewed study, published in the Neurochemical Research journal on Jan. 10, examined the links between COVID-19 mRNA vaccines and neurodevelopmental disorders, with a focus on autism. It analyzed the offspring of pregnant rats injected with Pfizer's mRNA COVID-19 vaccines during gestation. Researchers found that the vaccines had a "profound impact on key neurodevelopmental pathways," with the male offspring exhibiting "pronounced autism-like behaviors, characterized by a marked reduction in social interaction and repetitive patterns of behavior."

"Furthermore, there was a substantial decrease in neuronal counts in critical brain regions, indicating potential neurodegeneration or altered neurodevelopment. Male rats also demonstrated impaired motor performance, evidenced by reduced coordination and agility."

Here's some great news to finish with: Fauci's Chinese partners are now experimenting with a gain-of-function variant of coronavirus with a 100% kill rate.

In the wake of a plandemic that killed millions of people, caused by a bug that likely escaped from a Chinese biolab that was funded by the US government, the Chinese have decided to double down on playing with viruses that have the power to wipe millions or billions of human beings off the face of the earth.

The arrogance is breathtaking. 100% kill rate.

This time, the Chinese have announced that they have been breeding a bug that has a 100% kill rate in humanized mice, which is pretty impressive until you realize that this is not some fancy new way to eradicate rodents but a scary new way to liquify the brains of human beings.

The lying, treasonous media, one year from now, after an outbreak of a coronavirus that has a 100% kill rate and liquifies people's brains, and also began spreading in China:

"This is obviously a naturally-evolving coronavirus variant and anyone who suggests otherwise must be deplatformed, debanked, and de-employed."

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:20 PM

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