Experts On Senator Ron Paul’s Debate With Dr. Anthony Fauci Over Wuhan Study
Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Monday, July 26, 2021
At a July 20, 2021 hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, on the nation’s COVID-19 response, Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul has claimed falsely and ignorantly, that the National Institutes of Health funded research through the Wuhan Institute of Virology that added “gain of function” to the virus(es) being studied.
THAT IS A FALSE STATEMENT.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, MD, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases was correct, honest, and forthright in his testimony before the Senate Committee when when he said to Senator Paul that, “Senator Paul, I have never lied before the Congress and I do not retract that statement. Senator Paul, you do not know what you’re talking about, quite frankly, and I want to say that officially. You do not know what you’re talking about.”
Below is the pertinent excerpt of the article that PROVES Dr. Fauci’s statement.
George Mason University’s Dr. Gregory Koblentz, PhD, an expert in biodefense and dual use research, pointed out that WIV1 wasn’t an animal virus enhanced to infect humans through gain-of-function research, because it was already shown to pose a danger to humans.
“Sen. Paul is wrong when he says that the coronaviruses that were the subject of this research only infect animals and not humans and that this research was ‘gain-of-function’ because it enabled an animal virus to infect humans,” Koblentz said. “The WIV1 strain was already known to be able to infect humans.”
Even before the virus was edited in the lab, researchers found WIV1 was “poised for human emergence,” writing it could infect human airway cells “with no significant adaptation required.”
Fauci said the grant proposal “was judged by qualified people up and down the chain” in the federal government not to comprise gain-of-function research.
Experiments in synthetic biology that create engineered, or “chimeric,” viruses that are “reasonably anticipated” to gain properties that make them more dangerous are supposed to get extra scrutiny by the government. At the time of the 2017 study, the government had implemented a pause on those experiments altogether.
https://www.rollcall.com/2021/07/23/experts-weigh-in-on-risky-wuhan-study-that-fauci-paul-debated/
The 6-minute exchange between Senator Paul and Dr. Fauci may be viewed on CSPAN.
Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul reminded Dr. Anthony Fauci, MD that it is a crime to lie to Congress and asked him if he would like to retract testimony he gave on May 11, 2021 when he said that the NIH did not fund “gain-of-function” research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab. Dr. Fauci said he didn’t lie in his previous testimony, and that he doesn’t lie to Congress and therefore has nothing to retract. He said the senator didn’t know what he was talking about, and added: “You are implying what we did was responsible for the deaths of individuals I totally resent that and if anyone is lying here Senator, it is you.”
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