GOF was banned in the US (under Barack Obama) by the NSABB (National Science Advisory Board), the NRC (National Research Council), and the IOM (Institute of Medicine) whom the government relies upon to make such decisions on safety in viral research. They felt it was unethical as it was far too risky and dangerous
Fauci didn't like the decision, and as a liberal, he felt the rules didn't apply to him. So, he took NIAID funds starting shortly thereafter, and he funded the same dangerous research at the Wuhan Lab in China....where the COVID virus later escaped to cause a world disaster.
Nobody at the previous mentioned US institutions ever thought to consider that someone among them would be so foolish and self-centered as to take the dangerous practice abroad with our govt funding. But Anthony Fauci felt that he knew better than everyone else. He also lied about doing it to congress.
Now, the legal loophole has been tightened to reign in any future Fauci's.
Good job President Trump!
Link: https://www.newsweek.com/fauci-untruthful-congress-wuhan-lab-research-documents-show-gain-function-1627351
Fauci didn't like how the winds were blowing in the US, so he sent money to help start up the GOF research in China.
Link: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21055989-understanding-risk-bat-coronavirus-emergence-grant-notice/
Turns out, he was giving the finding to ECOHEALTH intermediary to do the GOF in WuhanLabi China.
He lied to Congress. His statement was meant to mislead. The article from Newsweek is linked.
Trump has cleaned this up as Fauci escaped Justice with an AutoPen Biden pardon .
Never forget.
Link: https://www.newsweek.com/fauci-untruthful-congress-wuhan-lab-research-documents-show-gain-function-1627351
Back then, DJT was reflexively reversing anything and everything that Obama had done...including Obama's imposition of a GOF pause in 2014, along with not paying any attention to his "Pandemic Preparedness Plan" that called for filling our PPE equipment National Reserves.
Now, after his botched response to COVID-19 (e.g. knowingly denying the severity of the disease, while simultaneously being unprepared) DJT is trying to re-write history with a campaign against a technology he knows nothing about in an attempt to push the 'Lab Leak' theory.
Link: https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-lifts-3-year-ban-funding-risky-virus-studies
to further hide their lies as they became caught in their own web of deceipt. (The definition had been a long-standing one that was there since the inception of Gain of Function research, and it was changed in response to an ever more heated investigation into Fauci/NIH activities in Wuhan.
Is it a surprise that the people who support MS-13, Hamas, Assassin Luigi Mangione, and China would also support Fauci?
Anthony Fauci has caused more harm to more people than any doctor in history. Of course they support him.
Link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/nih-official-finally-admits-taxpayers-funded-gain-of-function-research-in-wuhan-after-years-of-denials/ar-BB1mwcLr
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would have been acted upon by GOP members of Congress...but, of course, that didn't happen...and those legislators had access to the same NIAID/EcoHealth contract that Baron linked...i.e. Nothing new...still no charges filed against one of the very best Doctors this country has been blessed with.
Link: https://www.factcheck.org/2021/05/the-wuhan-lab-and-the-gain-of-function-disagreement/
zero evidence of unauthorized GOF funding from NIAID (Dr. Fauci) through 'EcoHealth' to the Wuhan Lab...NONE. Baron...charitably...is just making stuff up...still.
btw, GOF technology is how we get each year's Flu vaccine...it is a "Field" of research, that also includes "Loss Of Function"...and shouldn't be eliminated altogether....but that doesn't seem to matter to an MD who's more interested in being a political hack on a message board.
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