A report released Tuesday by the House Oversight Committee on the suppression of the hypothesis that the COVID-19 virus was leaked from a virology lab found that Dr. Anthony Fauci employed “fatally flawed science” to avoid blaming China for the pandemic.
Since April 2020, the GOP-led Oversight Committee has been investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Their report focuses on the handling of a 2020 study entitled “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” (Proximal Origin), which has been accessed 5.8 million times since it was published in the journal Nature Medicine, receiving the fifth most attention of any paper ever tracked.
“This is one of the single most impactful and influential scientific papers in history, and it expressed conclusions that were not based on sound science nor in fact, but instead on assumptions,” the report reads. “The question is why.”
After reviewing more than 8,000 pages of documents from the Proximal Origin contributors and 25 hours of testimony, the report found that the paper was used to downplay the lab leak hypothesis and deem those who believe it as conspiracy theorists.
On Jan. 31, 2020, Dr. Fauci “suggested” directly to Dr. Kristian Anderson, one of the eventual co-authors of Proximal Origin, to draft a paper regarding the lab leak hypothesis.
The next day, Fauci held a conference call with 11 international scientists, again suggesting the drafting of a paper regarding a possible lab leak—a draft of Proximal Origin was completed within hours, the Oversight Committee report found.
After Dr. Francis Collins, former Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), “expressed dismay” that Proximal Origin did not kill the lab leak theory, he asked Dr. Fauci if there was anything more they could do.
Fauci then proceeded to cite Proximal Origin from the White House podium the next day.
The report also examined internal messages sent between the co-authors of Proximal Origin in a private Slack channel, in which they express concern about the “unnecessary harm” that the lab leak hypothesis would cause for China and “science in general.”
One co-author, Dr. Andrew Rambaut, suggested that the group deny evidence of a “specifically engineered virus” due to “the sh** show that would happen if anyone serious accused the Chinese of even accidental release.”
Other emails from Dr. Collins express concern that “the voices of conspiracy will quickly dominate, doing great potential harm to science and international harmony.”
“These emails show a disturbing focus by ‘top’ scientists in the early days of COVID to kill the lab leak theory, not because it had been disproven, but because it could shine a bad light on China and ‘science’,” the Oversight Committee said in a tweet Tuesday.
So why is the Biden administration allowed to restore Gain of Function funding for the Wuhan Institute?
https://www.americaoutloud.news/outrageous-biden-renews-treasonous-funding-of-wuhan-institute/
See also: Peter and Ginger Breggin’s book, “COVID-19 and the Global Predators, We are the Prey”