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Washington Post Columnist: ‘Rand Paul Was Right and Fauci Was Wrong’

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/07/20/washington-post-columnist-rand-paul-was-right-and-fauci-was-wrong/

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Rand Paul/Anthony Fauci

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20 Jul 2021929

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A columnist for the Washington Post admitted on Tuesday that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) was correct in Tuesday’s heated back and forth between the senator and Dr. Anthony Fauci over the White House chief medical adviser’s denial of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

“Hey guys,@RandPaul was right and Fauci was wrong. The NIH was funding gain of function research in Wuhan but NIH pretended it didn’t meet their ‘gain of function’ definition to avoid their own oversight mechanism,” Josh Rogin, a columnist for the Washington Post, said Tuesday.

“SorryNotSorry if that doesn’t fit your favorite narrative,” he added:

Rogin’s remark followed a heated exchange between the Kentucky Republican and the Biden administration’s top medical adviser on the coronavirus, which saw Paul grilling Fauci over the denial that the NIH funded gain-of-function research in the Wuhan lab.

“And yet, gain-of-function research was done entirely in the Wuhan Institute … and was funded by the NIH,” Paul said, citing a Wuhan Virology paper entitled, “Discovery of a Rich Gene Pool of Bat SARS-Related Coronaviruses” and detailing the claims made in the paper. Paul went on:

In this paper … she credits the NIH and lists the actual number of the grant that she was given by the NIH. In this paper, she took two bat coronavirus genes, spiked genes, and combined them with a SARS-related backbone to create new viruses that are not found in nature.

He continued (emphasis added):

These lab-created viruses within to shown to replicate in humans. These experiments combine genetic information from different coronaviruses that infect animals but not humans to create novel artificial viruses able to infect human cells. Viruses that in nature only infect animals were manipulated in the Wuhan lab to gain-the-function of infecting humans. This research fits the definition of the research that the NIH said was subject to the pause in 2014 to 2017 — a pause in funding on gain-of-function. But the NIH failed to recognize this, defines in a way, and it never came under any scrutiny.

“Dr. Fauci knowing that it is a crime to lie to Congress, do you wish to retract your statement of May 11 where you claimed that the NIH never funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan?” Paul asked, prompting a sharp response from Fauci, who was visibly irritated by the Republican’s grilling.

“Senator Paul, I have never lied before the Congress and I do not retract that statement. This paper that you were referring to was judged by qualified staff up and down the chain as not being gain-0f-function — let me finish!” he said as Paul interjected.

“You take an animal virus and you increase this transmissibility to humans, you’re saying that’s not gain-of-function?” the senator asked, triggering Fauci further as he effectively denied their own definition of gain-of-function research.

“Yeah that is correct, and Senator Paul, you do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly. And I want to say that officially. You do not know what you are talking about,” Fauci quipped, to which Paul replied:

This is your definition that you guys wrote. It says that scientific research that increases the transmissibility among animals is gain-of-function. They took animal viruses that only occur in animals and they increase their transmissibility to humans. How you can say that is not gain-of-function?

“It is not,” Fauci said.

“It’s a dance, and you’re dancing around this because you’re trying to obscure responsibility for four million people dying around the world from a pandemic,” Paul added.

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U.S. Senate Committee on Health

Indeed, in May, Fauci admitted the NIH funded the Wuhan lab but denied gain-of-function research despite describing it as “taking a virus that could infect humans and making it either more transmissible and/or pathogenic for humans” — as detailed in the paper Paul cited during Tuesday’s hearing.

According to the Daily Caller News Foundation, the “NIH subagency that awarded the grant to the nonprofit group EcoHealth Alliance to study Chinese bat coronaviruses opted against” running the grant through the Potential Pandemic Pathogens Control and Oversight (P3CO) committee, essentially sidestepping the safeguards for such research.

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Rand Paul says he has written to the DOJ seeking a criminal referral of Dr. Fauci for lying to Congress

after expert insisted he had not funded gain of function research at Wuhan lab during fractious exchange

The Kentucky senator appeared on Sean Hannity's Fox News show on Tuesday
Paul earlier on Tuesday had angrily clashed with Dr Anthony Fauci in the Senate
He accused Fauci of lying when he said he did not fund gain of function research
Fauci hit back, telling Paul that he was the one who was spreading lies
Tuesday night Paul said he wanted a criminal complaint for lying to Congress

By Harriet Alexander For Dailymail.com

Published: 00:06 EDT, 21 July 2021 | Updated: 03:44 EDT, 21 July 2021

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9808755/Rand-Paul-writes-Justice-Department-seeking-criminal-referral-Dr-Anthony-Fauci.html

Senator Rand Paul has said he is writing to the Justice Department seeking 'a criminal referral' for Dr Anthony Fauci, accusing the nation's top public health official of having lied to Congress.

Paul, a libertarian Republican who has frequently sparred with Fauci, engaged in a blazing row with the health official on Tuesday.

Both men ended up calling the other a liar in a remarkable exchange during a Senate hearing.

On Tuesday night Paul told Fox News he wanted to take the matter further.

'I will be sending a letter to Department of Justice asking for a criminal referral because he has lied to congress,' Paul told Sean Hannity.

Senator Rand Paul on Tuesday night appeared on Fox News, and announced he had written to the Justice Department seeking a criminal referral for Dr Anthony Fauci, accusing him of lying to Congress

Paul has insisted that Fauci funded 'gain of function' research in the Wuhan lab in China, whereby viruses are manipulated to make them more lethal and transmissible. The Wuhan lab is now seen as a possible source for the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fauci has confirmed that his organization, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, funded research at Wuhan, but is adamant that the money was not direct towards gain of function.

Paul did not believe him.

'We have scientists that will line up by the dozens saying the research he was funding was gain of function,' Paul told Hannity.

'He is doing this because he has a self interest to cover his tracks and to cover his connection to Wuhan lab.

'Now does he deserve all the blame? No, there's still some conjecture as to whether or not it came from the lab.

'But he is lying about whether or not he funded gain of function research, and yes, he should be punished.'

Paul, an eye surgeon for 18 years, has frequently clashed with Fauci about COVID-19

Rand Paul is seen earlier on Tuesday in the Senate, during the hearing of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee

Fauci strongly denied Paul's claims that he was lying to Congress, and told Paul that he was deeply mistaken in his arguments

What is Gain of Function research?

Gain of Function Research (GOF) is a controversial practice that involves altering a virus or pathogen in order to study the development of new diseases and their transmission.

Scientists conducting GOF research modify naturally occurring viruses to make them more infectious so that they can replicate in human cells in a lab.

This allows the virus's potential effects on humans to be studied and better understood. GOF has been considered controversial due to its inherent biosafety risks.

In 2014, the Obama administration imposed a moratorium on GOF which included halting funding for projects, however, this decision was overturned three years later by the National Institute of Health (NIH).

On May 25, 2021, White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci defended funding the Wuhan Institute of Virology through a $600,000 grant given to the non-profit EcoHealth Alliance, to study whether bat coronaviruses could be transmitted to humans.

He said the research was essential, pointing out that the SARS outbreak in the early 2000s was eventually traced back to bats.

However, Fauci claimed that under the terms of the funding, scientists were not to use the money on Gain of Function research.

The Justice Department is highly unlikely to seek to prosecute Fauci, who works within the government as Joe Biden's chief medical advisor.

Paul has championed a Republican campaign to get Fauci, 80, removed as the head of the NIAID.

Paul accused Fauci of orchestrating a coverup of his role in funding the Wuhan lab.

'Once the public figures out that they were doing very, very dangerous research there, gain of function research, taking dangerous animal viruses and making them transmissible to humans, he realizes where the blame is going to attach,' Paul told Hannity.

'He has at least tangential responsibility.

'If this came from the lab that he was funding, my goodness, could you imagine the moral culpability that the man has?'

Paul, a medical doctor and an ophthalmologist, pointed out that gain of function research was currently being carried out in Galveston, Texas and in North Carolina.

'So this is a big debate, not just over blame, but over whether or not this could happen again in the United States,' he said.

Fauci earlier on Tuesday angrily denied Paul's accusation that he was lying.

'I have not lied before Congress,' said Fauci.

'I have never lied. Certainly not before Congress. Case closed.'

Fauci told Paul before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, saying a study the senator mentioned referenced a different sort of virus entirely from the one responsible for the coronavirus outbreak.

'Senator Paul, you do not know what you're talking about, quite frankly,' Fauci said.

'And I want to say that officially. You do not know what you're talking about.'

He added: 'If anybody is lying here, senator, it is you.'

He defended allocating $600,000 to a group called EcoHealth Alliance, which then paid the Wuhan Institute of Virology to study the risk that bat coronaviruses could infect humans.

Paul grilled Fauci in May about the $600,000 in funding allocated for EcoHealth Alliance, which turned around and paid the Wuhan Institute of Virology to study how bat coronavirus could infect humans.

Fauci defended that allocation during a hearing before a congressional budget committee

The $600,000 in funding was reinstated in August after a different earlier grant was blocked in April 2020 amid concern over safety at the Wuhan lab.

Paul insisted during the terse exchange that the money was being used for gain of function research. Fauci, however, insisted the money was not used for this purpose.

'You are entirely and completely incorrect,' Fauci told Paul at the hearing. 'The NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain of function research in the Wuhan Institute.'

Gain of function research looks at both transmitting disease between animals and humans and is a way for scientists to alter organisms and diseases to study how they could become deadlier or more transmissible.

The NIH definition of gain of function includes 'scientific research that increases the transmissibility among animals is gain-of-function.'

The Kentucky senator repeatedly questioned Fauci on gain of function – and the U.S. indirectly funding that research in China – on a few occasions. The theory has emerged in conservative circles as a potential answer to the origins of COVID-19.

Last month, Paul also accused Fauci of lying and demanded he be fired after a slew of his emails were made public.

Paul claimed to Fox News early in June that thousands of emails revealed by Buzzfeed News and the Washington Post proved Fauci may have been in-part responsible for the development of COVID-19.

The emails reveal that Fauci was warned privately of the possibility that the origins of COVID were due to a lab leak in Wuhan – even though he publicly dismissed the ideas and allowed Democrats to call it a conspiracy.

The email revelation did not show Fauci’s personal take on the theory.

Fauci v Paul: The debate over gain-of-function research and the $600K NIH grant to the Wuhan lab

Senator Rand Paul and Dr. Anthony Fauci have been at loggerheads over gain-of-function research and a $600,000 grant the National Institutes of Health (NIH) gave to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2014.

Gain of Function Research (GOF) is a controversial practice that involves altering a virus or pathogen in order to study the development of new diseases and their transmission. The research can ultimately make the virus more contagious or more deadly in a lab.

According to an NIH definition, GOF includes studying and altering viruses in animals to make them transmissible to humans – and potentially more contagious and deadly.

Paul accused Fauci on May 11 of misleading Congress by saying the U.S. has never funded gain-of-function projects at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

The Kentucky Republican points to a $3.7million grant NIH gave EcoHealth Alliance in 2014. EcoHealth Alliance in turn distributed nearly $600,000 of that funding to its collaborator, the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).

Paul has maintained that emails from Fauci showed that he was worried NIH funded gain-of-function research in February 2020 when the pandemic first started to emerge.

In an interview in June, Paul told Fox News: 'I think we've had a change of opinion. Everybody left-of-center was saying this was a conspiracy, no way it could have happened in the Wuhan lab. Now even Dr. Fauci is saying we should investigate it'

'But the emails paint a disturbing picture, a disturbing picture of Dr. Fauci form the very beginning worrying that he had been funding gain of function research. And he knows it to this day but hasn't admitted it.'

Paul claimed in the interview that 'there is a lot of evidence' that Fauci's views on the Wuhan lab-leak theory were compromised by a 'conflict of interest.'

'If it turns out this virus came from the Wuhan lab, which it looks like it did, that there's a great deal of culpability in that he was a big supporter of the funding,' Paul said.

'But he was also a big supporter to this day of saying that we can trust the Chinese on this, that we can trust Chinese scientists and I think that's quite naïve and really should preclude him form the position that he's in.

In June, Fauci dismissed revelations that he was warned at the start of pandemic that COVID-19 may have been 'engineered'.

Fauci seemed to play down a mass trove of damaging emails which include warnings from the start of the pandemic that the virus originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

He said his emails are 'ripe to be taken out of context' but he 'can't guarantee everything that is going on in the Wuhan lab'

At the hearing on Tuesday, Paul attempted to prove Fauci was lying in his May testimony by presenting a Wuhan Institute of Virology paper that details efforts to produce man-altered coronaviruses.

Fauci 'stated that the NIH has never and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology,' Paul said in the committee chamber. 'And yet, gain-of-function research was done entirely in the Wuhan institute by Doctor Shi [Zhengli] and was funded by the NIH.'

He then cited the paper by WIV scientists titled 'Discovery of a rich gene pool of bat SARS-related coronaviruses provides new insights into the origin of SARS coronavirus'.

The paper specifically talks about ongoing efforts to produce a 'chimeric' coronavirus, which means it has been altered by man – otherwise known as 'gain of function.'

It also details, Paul noted, that the NIH was a source of funding for that research.

Paul asserted that the research recorded in the paper 'explicitly matches the definition of gain-of-function research.'

'This paper was judged by qualified staff up and down the chain as not being gain-of-function,' Fauci insisted.

Paul came back with saying WIV researchers 'took animal viruses' and 'then increased their transmissibility to humans. How you can say that is not gain-of-function—it's a dance, and you're dancing around this, because you're trying to obscure responsibility for four million people around the world dying from a pandemic.'

Paul, an ophthalmologist before being elected to Congress, was the first known senator to test positive for COVID-19 in March 2020 – the same month the nation went into lockdown in response to the rapidly spreading virus.

After he completed quarantine and returned to work, Paul refused to wear a mask at the Capitol, insisting he was now 'immune' since he already contracted and recovered from COVID-19.

The Fauci email leak in early June showed the NIH doctor was warned several times in January, february and April of 2020 by different experts that COVID-19 was likely the result of testing at the Wuhan lab in China.

On April 18, 2020, Fauci received an email from the head of a research group that’s partnered with WIV. In the email, the individual was thanking Fauci or publicly insisting evidence doesn’t point to the lab as the source.

Then, after mounting evidence supporting the lab leak theory was revealed in June, Fauci finally deflected by saying the origin is likely a natural occurrence, where it goes from an animal reservoir to a human.

In an interview with CNN, Fauci said he is 'keeping an open mind that it might be a lab leak' but dismissed the idea of bioengineering as 'far out'.

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