How Fauci Became Science

Covid hero Dr. Jay Bhattacharya writes about how Fauci lied -- and spread Dangerous Disinformation -- to bend the public to his will during the AIDS crisis.

Anthony Fauci, the Man Who Thought He Was Science

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In 1983, in response to a case report of an infant with AIDS published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, Fauci told the press that AIDS might be spread by routine household contact. There was no good evidence then and is none now to suggest that HIV is transmitted that way. But Fauci's statement, prominently echoed in the media, panicked the American people, almost certainly leading many to physically shun AIDS patients out of an unfounded fear of catching the disease.

Fauci does not address this incident, so one is left to speculate about why he was attracted to this theory. One possibility is that there was little political support for government spending on AIDS when the public thought it only affected gay men. As the public came to understand AIDS impacted broader populations, such as hemophiliacs and IV drug users, public support for funding HIV research expanded.

Lying during a crisis to get what he wanted worked so well during AIDS that Fauci decided to make a career of it.

Like many other charlatans and power-seekers, he used the War on Terror to expand his power and purview:

In the early days of the war on terror, Fauci became head of civilian biodefense, with the mandate to develop and stockpile countermeasures to biowarfare agents. This appointment made Fauci one of the most well-paid and powerful figures in the U.S. government. Fauci leveraged his deep knowledge of the federal bureaucracy, streamlining federal contracting rules to issue "sole source contracts" and "rapid research grants" to create constituencies of companies and scientists who depended on Fauci for their success.

He had an interesting take on the avian flu: We should make it more easy to transmit to humans -- we should turn it into a bioweapon -- so that we can then study the bioweapon we just created.

At this point, virologists persuaded Fauci's NIAID to support dangerous scientific lab experiments designed to make the avian flu virus more easily transmissible among humans.

In 2011, NIAID-funded scientists in Wisconsin and the Netherlands succeeded. They published their results in a prestigious scientific journal, so that anyone with the knowledge and resources could replicate their steps. They effectively weaponized the avian flu virus and shared the recipe with the world, with Fauci and his agency in full support.

Is the picture becoming clearer? When it was put to him he was cooking up potentially world-ending bioweapons, he sniffed that it was worth the risks of accidentally unleashing a Killer Bug upon the world:

Fauci, writing to molecular biologists in 2012, downplayed the possibility that laboratory workers or scientists studying these dangerous pathogens might cause the pandemic they were working to prevent. He also argued that the risk of such an accident was worth it: "In an unlikely but conceivable turn of events, what if that scientist becomes infected with the virus, which leads to an outbreak and ultimately triggers a pandemic? Many ask reasonable questions: given the possibility of such a scenario--however remote--should the initial experiments have been performed and or published in the first place, and what were the processes involved in this decision? Scientists working in this field might say--as indeed I have said--that the benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks. It is more likely that a pandemic would occur in nature, and the need to stay ahead of such a threat is a primary reason for performing an experiment that might appear to be risky."

He knows he funded and unleashed covid on the world-- and you can see why he's so addicted to the Dangerous Misinformation "natural origin" cover story.

He's a mass murderer on a scale undreamed of by Hitler.

But that's not all. Emails gotten through FOIA demands prove that Fauci was protecting his friend Peter Daszak thoughout the covid crisis, from denying there was any possibility at all that covid could escape from his gain-of-function bat virus lab in Wuhan, to constantly defying multiple presidents' orders to shut down gain-of-function funding.

Obama shut it down too, but Fauci went behind his back, redefined "gain of function" in the federal rules, and started funding it again.

When Trump told him to shut down the funding to Daszak in 2020, Fauci just had Daszak reapply for the grant under a slightly different pretext and gave him the money.

Our money.

But why should we get to decide what our money is spent on? Fauci, who is Science, must step in and take that right away from us.

Trust the experts.

True, they're all getting rich on insider deals and talking up their own stocks, but trust them anyway, Peon Racists.

This is a very long and very detailed report. The TL;DR version is that there are many emails showing that Fauci was protecting Peter Daszak from having his dangerous gain-of-function research in Wuhan defunded, and after Trump forced Fauci to cancel a grant, he let Daszack reapply for the same grant by slightly changing the words of his original grant -- with it very clear that this "new" approval was for the same research the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES ordered to be defunded.

The Wuhan Institute of Virology's chief American collaborator leveraged connections in Anthony Fauci's inner circle to survive federal scrutiny and keep millions in public funding flowing without turning over key data, new records show.

Hundreds of documents -- emails obtained under Freedom of Information Act lawsuits or congressional subpoena, as well as congressional interview transcripts -- show Fauci's institute protected EcoHealth Alliance, which collaborated on novel coronavirus discovery and engineering projects with the Wuhan lab.

At a congressional hearing this summer, Fauci cast EcoHealth and its president Peter Daszak -- who are currently under proposed debarment by the federal government -- as minor and rogue grantees.

But EcoHealth was among the first grantees that Fauci's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases contacted as news of a novel coronavirus first swirled, and Daszak requested supplemental funds to respond to the crisis. In early February 2020, when NIAID began conducting weekly calls with a few experts about the novel coronavirus, Daszak was among the invitees. And at the height of pandemic confusion and controversy in the summer of 2020, EcoHealth maintained the goodwill of NIAID, which awarded EcoHealth two new grants totaling $19.8 million, weakening the leverage of other officials to obtain information from one of the U.S. government's only sources of insight into the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Remember that Fauci routinely lied about not funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan. It would turn out that his expansive denial would be walked back, for perjury purposes, as meaning only that the NIAID didn't fund gain of function in Wuhan directly. His "sub-grantee" -- his butt-buddy Peter Daszack of EcoHealth -- was funding gain-of-function in Wuhan, using NIAID money. But NIAID didn't fund GOF in Wuhan itself! It used a cut-out to do it!

Totally (D)ifferent!

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At the time, officials at the National Institutes of Health's central headquarters or "Building One" -- at the demand of the Trump White House -- had suspended EcoHealth's existing NIAID grant and sought lab notebooks and unpublished genomic data as a condition of getting its funding back. This information could have shed light on the coronavirus research in Wuhan before the pandemic.

But aided by allies within NIAID, millions continued to flow to EcoHealth, and Daszak would not ask his longtime collaborators in Wuhan for information sought by the U.S. government until 20 months later, in January 2022 -- two years after the pandemic began.

Some of the NIAID officials who helped Daszak were key to approving his coronavirus research in Wuhan in the first place, including gain-of-function research, research that can enhances the pathogenicity or transmissibility of a pathogen. Some of these NIAID officials had spent years championing gain-of-function research as worth the risks, congressional transcripts also show. Namely, Morens and another NIAID employee named "Jeff T." were the liaisons between the scientific community and Fauci during the years-long debates about gain-of-function research leading up to the pandemic, one email shows. After the pandemic arose, Morens and another NIAID scientist named Jeffery Taubenberger wrote an editorial defending EcoHealth and referred to people concerned about gain-of-function research as "luddites" and "the complaining crowd."

Thousands of pages of grant proposals and other documents obtained by U.S. Right to Know show that EcoHealth planned to use the new NIAID funding to continue research similar to the work that had brought the group under scrutiny, using the very same viral samples.

Most of the NIAID employees who helped Daszak maintain funding amid the pandemic still retain positions of influence at NIAID.

The revelations come as the U.S. Senate considers legislation championed by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., that would move regulation of the riskiest gain-of-function research out of the funding agency -- which is typically NIAID -- and empower an independent panel of scientists to determine when engineering new pathogens is worth the risk.

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Morens said in another email that NIAID was a "friend" of EcoHealth.

"I have spent alot of time over the last few months ... to try to undo the harm that was done to Peter's grant, PREDICT, and related things," Morens wrote on August 18, 2020. "Lots is happening behind the scenes ... Given that I work for NIAID, and that Tony Fauci is my boss, I have to be careful and generally talk to reporters off the record, but I think I can say that NIAID, at least, is a friend in these efforts, just not able at this time to be too out front."

Morens is the guy who was discovered to have been deliberately misspelling keywords in his emails so that no one searching for those specific keywords could find them in a FOIA search. "We learned how to make emails disappear," he bragged to a friend.

Fauci's NIAID set itself to frustrating Trump's attempts to shut this funding down, just as Fauci had gone behind Obama's back to undo the ban on gain-of-function research funding.

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"I am also very concerned that Trump could target our organization or me personally, leading to our EIDRC being nixed and we don't even have an NoA on that, so it could just quietly disappear," Daszak said.

Morens noted that people within NIAID "will be your advocates."

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Daszak praised Fauci's statements to the press downplaying the possibility of a leak at Daszak's partner lab -- comments that Daszak in turn highlighted to Fauci's employees at NIAID. Even as he expressed bitter resentment against Collins, Daszak expressed gratitude for Fauci.

Daszak applied for a "new" grant -- which would be used to fund the same gain-of-function research that Trump had just ordered stopped.

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It was obvious to Fauci's inner circle at NIAID that the new CREID grant mirrored EcoHealth's prior work -- just the sort of research that had alarmed the public and the White House in the first place.

Morens described the CREID endeavor to Folkers, Fauci's chief of staff, as "PREDICT on steroids." PREDICT was the name of EcoHealth's grant with the U.S. Agency for International Development, which dovetailed with the group's work for NIAID.

The group may have simply reappropriated samples from its PREDICT program for the project, according to draft grant reports.

This report from America First Legal documents the CDC's efforts to censor Americans from saying unapproved-but-true things about covid.

Today, America First Legal released additional documents from its litigation against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), exposing the complete onboarding documents Facebook used to train CDC employees on their government censorship portal to block free speech on "Covid & Vaccine Misinformation."

Many Americans remember the unprecedented level of censorship by the Biden-Harris Administration in 2021. Unelected public health officials constantly revised their guidance, leading to repeating something that was "true" a week ago could suddenly get an account suspended. The Biden-Harris Administration's clumsy and heavy-handed attempts to keep up with the rapidly evolving information environment entailed by a global pandemic gave all Americans a stark reminder of why the First Amendment was listed first.

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This release comes on the heels of recently released documents from that lawsuit, which exposed the United Kingdom's influence on the Biden-Harris Administration's censorship policy, and Zuckerberg's admission that Facebook only engaged in censorship after extreme pressure from the Biden-Harris White House.

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These slides show how closely the Biden-Harris Administration's CDC and Big Tech coordinated to censor speech they disagreed with.

Details at the link.

posted by Ace at 05:20 PM

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