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New emails show Fauci commissioned paper to disprove Wuhan lab leak theory

  

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Via:  vic-eldred  •  last year  •  28 comments

By:   Miranda Devine (New York Post)

New emails show Fauci commissioned paper to disprove Wuhan lab leak theory
New emails uncovered by House Republicans probing the COVID-19 pandemic reveal the deceptive nature of Dr. Anthony Fauci.

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New emails uncovered by House Republicans probing the COVID-19 pandemic reveal the deceptive nature of Dr. Anthony Fauci.

They show he "prompted" or commissioned — and had final approval on — a scientific paper written specifically in February 2020 to disprove the theory that the virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China.

Eight weeks later, Fauci stood at a White House press conference alongside President Donald Trump and cited that paper as evidence that the lab leak theory was implausible while pretending it had nothing to do with him and he did not know the authors.

"There was a study recently," he told reporters on April 17, 2020, when asked if the virus could have come from a Chinese lab, "where a group of highly qualified evolutionary virologists looked at the sequences … in bats as they evolve and the mutations that it took to get to the point where it is now is totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human.

"So, the paper will be available. I don't have the authors right now, but we can make it available to you."

New emails uncovered by House Republicans revealed Dr. Anthony Fauci's nature during the COVID-19 pandemic. Greg Nash - Pool via CNPIn a press conference with President Donald Trump and Dr. Fauci, both men cited the paper's theory that a lab leak was implausible. Getty ImagesView this document on Scribd

That paper, titled "The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2," was sent to Fauci for editing in draft form and again for final approval before it was published in Nature Medicine on Feb. 17, 2020.

It was written four days after Fauci, and his NIH boss Dr. Francis Collins, held a call with the four authors to discuss reports that COVID-19 may have leaked from the Wuhan lab and "may have been intentionally genetically manipulated."

The House Oversight subcommittee published emails Sunday in which the paper's co-author Dr. Kristian Andersen admits Fauci "prompted" him to write the paper with the goal to "disprove" the lab leak theory.

The paper, titled "The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2," was allegedly sent to Fauci twice before it was published in Nature Medicine on Feb. 17, 2020. Getty Images

On Feb. 12, 2020, Andersen submitted the paper to Nature Medicine with a cover email: "There has been a lot of speculation, fear-mongering, and conspiracies put forward in this space. [This paper was] Prompted by Jeremy Farrah [sic], Tony Fauci, and Francis Collins."

Farrar, then head of British nonprofit the Wellcome Trust, which has historic ties to the pharmaceutical industry and the Gates Foundation, was rewarded with the plum role of chief scientist at the World Health Organization last December.

On the day the "Proximal Origin" paper was published, emails show Farrar pushing through a crucial change: "Sorry to micromanage/micro edit! But would you be willing to change one sentence?"

Farrar's change was to replace the word "unlikely" with "improbable" in a statement about the lab leak origin, so it would read: "It is improbable that SARS-CoV-2 emerged through laboratory manipulation of an existing SARS-related coronavirus."

Improbable means having a probability too low to inspire belief; unbelievable, even ridiculous.

That's what Fauci and friends wanted us to think of the lab leak theory that looked probable from the get-go, as one dissenting scientist said at the time, and looks more probable by the day.

The question of why Fauci went to such an effort to obscure the origins of COVID-19 is a major focus of the GOP-led committee.

China has long denied the virus was a result of a leak from one of its laboratories.AFP via Getty Images

While they're at it, they should quiz the Biden administration's new "US negotiator for the pandemic accord" at the WHO, Ambassador Pamela Hamamoto, a former campaign bundler and Hawaii schoolmate of Barack Obama.

Last month she sided with China to keep deliberations around this new international pandemic treaty secret.

What are they trying to hide?


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Vic Eldred
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1  seeder  Vic Eldred    last year

One of the key reasons why it was so hard to get an investigation going.

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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2  Sean Treacy    last year

The war on Science by  Mr. I am Science.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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2.1  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Sean Treacy @2    last year

More like the war on the world's humanity.

 
 
 
Snuffy
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3  Snuffy    last year

Like moths to a flame, the nay-sayers will be drawn in to dispute this story by attacking the source.  

 
 
 
Sparty On
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4  Sparty On    last year

One more fallen hero of the left.

Doh!

 
 
 
Snuffy
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4.1  Snuffy  replied to  Sparty On @4    last year

Except the left refuses to admit he's fallen and continues to support him.  Makes me wonder at the quality of education these days...

 
 
 
Sparty On
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4.1.1  Sparty On  replied to  Snuffy @4.1    last year

Hard to break from a hive mentality like that.

Admitting that their favorite science grandpa is really a liar, would be a massive blow to their fragile egos.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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4.1.2  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Snuffy @4.1    last year
Except the left refuses to admit he's fallen and continues to support him. 

He did crawl up Biden's ass. He knew where the power was.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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4.1.3  JohnRussell  replied to  Vic Eldred @4.1.2    last year

Why would Anthony Fauci want "power"? 

The things people say sometimes when their worldview is created by conspiracy nonsense. I really fear for this country and things are only getting worse. 

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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4.1.4  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  JohnRussell @4.1.3    last year
Why would Anthony Fauci want "power"? 

He needed the powerful to protect him.

In the 2012 paper, Fauci acknowledged the risky research could lead to serious lab accidents but the chance is rare and the work is “important” because it helps the scientific community prepare for naturally occurring pandemics. Fauci said “the benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks.”

nypost.com/2021/05/28/fauci-once-argued-viral-experiments-worth-the-risk-of-pandemic/



The things people say sometimes when their worldview is created by conspiracy nonsense. 

Get a new talking point!

 
 
 
Right Down the Center
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4.1.5  Right Down the Center  replied to  JohnRussell @4.1.3    last year
Why would Anthony Fauci want "power"? 

Why does anyone want power?  Fauci enjoyed his Sunday talk show routine and didn't want to see it end.  How about commenting on the rest of the article and not just dismissing it as a conspiracy, that is getting pretty old and is no longer something the left can continue to hide behind since they no longer control Congress.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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4.1.6  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Right Down the Center @4.1.5    last year

He was everywhere wasn't he?

As soon as people began to ask if he had given the ok to gain-of-function funding for the Wuhan Lab, he suddenly associated himself with the incoming Biden administration.

 
 
 
Tessylo
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4.1.7  Tessylo  replied to  Snuffy @4.1    last year

Fallen?

No

 
 
 
Tessylo
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4.1.8  Tessylo  replied to  JohnRussell @4.1.3    last year

Power?  What power?

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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5  Jeremy Retired in NC    last year

"The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2," can be read here:

Theories of SARS-CoV-2 origins

It is improbable that SARS-CoV-2 emerged through laboratory manipulation of a related SARS-CoV-like coronavirus. As noted above, the RBD of SARS-CoV-2 is optimized for binding to human ACE2 with an efficient solution different from those previously predicted https://doi.org/10.1128/JVI.00127-20 (2020)."href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9#ref-CR7" > 7 , 11 . Furthermore, if genetic manipulation had been performed, one of the several reverse-genetic systems available for betacoronaviruses would probably have been used 19 . However, the genetic data irrefutably show that SARS-CoV-2 is not derived from any previously used virus backbone 20 . Instead, we propose two scenarios that can plausibly explain the origin of SARS-CoV-2: (i) natural selection in an animal host before zoonotic transfer; and (ii) natural selection in humans following zoonotic transfer. We also discuss whether selection during passage could have given rise to SARS-CoV-2.

 
 
 
Nerm_L
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6  Nerm_L    last year

Fauci used the controversy over the source of SARS-CoV-2 as a distraction to hide the institutional flaws and inadequacies of the institutional response to any pandemic.  Had the virus been contained to Wuhan then it would have been a COVID outbreak.  The pandemic was directly caused by infected people travelling out of Wuhan and spreading the virus.  Recall that Fauci declared that travel bans would not be effective and adamantly opposed travel restrictions and bans.  Fauci's expert opinion was to allow an outbreak in Wuhan to become a global pandemic.  That was the expert opinion of the World Health Organization, too.  The institutional imperative was to protect international travel rather than the health of populations.

Viruses jump from animals to humans all the time.  But in the overwhelming predominance of cases, the virus doesn't persist because it has not adapted to a human host.  A naturally occurring virus must go through several iterations of mutation to establish itself as a human pathogen.  Only after going through that evolutionary process can a virus become contagious in humans.  A bat virus may make someone sick but that virus must mutate and evolve to become a human pathogen that can be spread by humans.  That's the point of gain-of-function research.  Originally gain-of-function research was intended to study how an animal virus evolves into a human pathogen.  The laboratory research was intended to mimic (and speed) the natural evolutionary process by exposing human cells to animal viruses in a controlled manner and determine how iterations of mutation allowed the animal virus to become a human pathogen.

A wet market or a laboratory being the source of the SARS-CoV-2 depends upon exactly the same evolutionary process required for an animal virus to become a human pathogen.  Genetic sequencing will not be able to distinguish between the two sources because both depend upon the exact same evolutionary process.  Both sources require an animal virus coming into contact with a human host and mutating to adapt to the human host.  It really doesn't matter if that process occurs in a market stall or a petri dish; the process is exactly the same.

What we know for certain is that a COVID outbreak occurred in Wuhan and that inflected people travelling out of Wuhan spread the virus and created a global pandemic.  The pandemic was a direct result of international travel bringing infected people into contact with uninfected populations.  We also know that the institutional response was to protect international travel rather than protect the health of populations.  Fauci told us, with certainty, that travel bans would not be effective and should not be imposed.  The rest, as the saying goes, is history.  Fauci's opinion was absolutely the worst thing possible to prevent or control a pandemic.

 

 
 
 
Hallux
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7  Hallux    last year

         "What are they trying to hide?"

In keeping with her record, Ms Devine is "suggesting" something nefarious and Fauci's bandwagon of detractors are jumping all over it as being factual as 'proven' by the replacement of 'unlikely' by 'improbable'.

The memorandum by the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Majority Staff whose goal is to satiate the Fauci vigilante bloodlust:

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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7.1  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Hallux @7    last year

You know what they say about "2 + 2 ?"

 
 
 
Hallux
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7.1.1  Hallux  replied to  Vic Eldred @7.1    last year
You know what they say about "2 + 2 ?"

Something trite?

 
 
 
Greg Jones
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7.2  Greg Jones  replied to  Hallux @7    last year

So what was the animal host?

One has never been identified.

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
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7.2.1  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  Greg Jones @7.2    last year

Probably a Chinese dragon.

 
 
 
Vic Eldred
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7.2.2  seeder  Vic Eldred  replied to  Greg Jones @7.2    last year

Be careful asking questions.

They'll call you a conspiracy theorist.

 
 
 
Hallux
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7.2.3  Hallux  replied to  Greg Jones @7.2    last year
So what was the animal host?

Genus speculitus.

 
 
 
Hallux
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7.2.4  Hallux  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @7.2.1    last year
Probably a Chinese dragon.

Why a Chinese dragon? They are, unlike western dragons, symbols of wisdom, goodluck, health etc.

 
 
 
Tessylo
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7.3  Tessylo  replied to  Hallux @7    last year

All a big nothingberder.

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
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8  Drinker of the Wry    last year

Because they are hard to catch.

 
 
 
Hallux
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8.1  Hallux  replied to  Drinker of the Wry @8    last year

Sort of like Nikki Haley diving into an elevator ...

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
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8.1.1  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  Hallux @8.1    last year

Probably not her greatest decision to attend what CPAC has turned into.

 
 

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