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« Last post by Slide Rule on Today at 11:54:13 am »New Report Confirms Fauci, Other 'Experts' Misled Public About COVID Research
Ian Miller
May 1, 2024 5:49 PM EDT
https://www.outkick.com/analysis/new-report-confirms-fauci-other-experts-misled-public-about-covid-research
One of the most underappreciated aspects of COVID discussions is how much of our public understanding
has been shaped by "expert" incompetence, gaslighting, and in some cases, malicious misdirection.
That's indicated by the "experts" behavior and repetitive, convenient "mistakes" on virtually every important
COVID-related question from masks to vaccines to school closures and lockdowns. Another obvious "misstep"
came with regard to the origins of the virus. And a new report shows how this "misstep" was, in fact, designed
by Anthony Fauci and his peers in the scientific community to purposefully mislead the public.
Peter Daszak, the head of EcoHealth Alliance, was instrumental in organizing the now-infamous Lancet Letter
strongly dismissing any possibility of laboratory research leading to the spread of the coronavirus. They also
purposefully said any discussion of whether or not the virus had a natural origin or came from a lab as a
"conspiracy theory." Seriously.
'We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural
origin," the letter reads.
As part of an investigation by the House's Select Subcommitte on the Coronavirus Pandemic, they interviewed
another scientist, Ralph Baric from the University of North Carolina. And Baric's testimony, revealed for the first
time today, shows how someone intimately involved with virology and virus research as well as the Wuhan Institute
of Virology, specifically and repeatedly said privately the lab leak was an entirely realistic possibility. And that the
research approved by Fauci's NIAID was undoubtedly gain of function. Something that Fauci has repeatedly denied.
The most charitable interpretation of Fauci's actions is that he "misled" the public. An uncharitable, and perhaps more
likely, interpretation is that he purposefully lied.
New Testimony Undercuts Fauci's Public Comments
Baric revealed during his interview that he had warned the top researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology that their
work was being done at unsatisfactory safety levels. And that the researcher ignored his warnings. Simply as a result of
that fact alone, he believes "You can't rule [a lab leak out]…You just can't," Baric said.
Daszak also emailed Baric in 2021 to defend himself and the WIV, saying that while they conducted risky gain-of-function
research on coronaviruses in a Bsl2 level lab, as opposed to the necessary Bsl3 level, it wasn't unsafe. Baric didn't take
that well.
"Bsl2 with negative pressure, give me a break," Baric said. "Yes, China has the right to set their own policy. You believe
this was appropriate containment if you want, but don’t expect me to believe it. Moreover, don’t insult my intelligence by
trying to feed me this load of BS."
So Baric acknowledged that the lab in Wuhan was conducting research at an unsafe lab level, something that the Lancet
Letter, which was promoted in the media as a definitive answer, essentially ignored.
Baric Confirms WIV Researchers Did ‘Irresponsible’ Work
Vanity Fair also reported that Baric "engineered mice with lungs that contained a human gene." Those mice were then
shared with WIV, assuming they'd only be used there. Sure enough, they were then put up for sale by an outside
commercial company. Baric called it "infuriating," but what's infuriating is that "experts" like him put their faith and
trust in a lab in China.
He also said that the work they did was "irresponsible," considering the lack of safety standards used at WIV.
"They actually stated that they were doing the culturing work under BSL-2…. And then they continued that even into
September of 2020, which I thought was irresponsible," Baric explained.
Additionally, he revealed he has no idea whether or not the WIV conducted research they proposed to do in a DARPA
grant proposal submitted by Dazsak's EcoHealth Alliance. While there "was evidence that they were building chimeras"
as well as "doing some discovery work about the functions of spike genes of zoonotic strains that they discovered later
on," Baric said he didn't know "if they did any of the engineering or anything."
Baric's testimony underscores how, in so many ways, the lies about the origins of the virus laid the groundwork for what
was to come. And the lack of accountability highlights how little interest there is in holding those misleading experts responsible
for what they did.
