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Government Corruption
Fauci Edited Bat-Virus Research Papers in the Weeks After COVID-19 Outbreak
2022-10-15
[RedState] The White Coat Waste Project has uncovered that the head of the NIAID, Dr. Anthony Fauci, edited papers regarding bat-virus research conducted in Wuhan in January 2020, just weeks after the initial outbreak of the virus in China.

Throughout the author’s time investigating the COVID origins, the White Coat Waste Project has been an invaluable resource, aiding my efforts to investigate the role that individuals and funding from government organizations may have played in the creation and release of a deadly virus from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Aside from the very clear question that continues to go unanswered (namely, why we are funding US viral research at a Chinese military lab in the first place), it now appears that additional questions have risen about the oversight of funding awarded to EcoHealth Alliance (EHA).

From the White Coat Waste Project:

According to a paper published in late 2020—well after the pandemic began and EHA was under the microscope for its role in funding risky animal experiments at the Wuhan Animal Lab—Fauci himself edited and approved a study co-authored by Daszak that described how EHA traveled to Bangladesh to collect the highly-deadly Nipah virus from wild bats. Not only did Fauci review, edit and approve Daszak’s paper for the journal, he funded the study as well.

This, of course, comes on the heels of an August revelation that EHA was in violation of the terms of the grant used to fund research on bat coronaviruses. This violation earned the organization a termination of the funding for that grant.

From August 25, 2022:

In an August 19th letter to Congressman James Comer, The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) announced the suspension of the sub-grants awarded to EcoHealth Alliance to study bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The funding was originally to determine which of the bat-borne coronaviruses were likely to make the jump from animal to humans and the likelihood that those viruses could mutate into deadly potential pandemic pathogens. During the 2018-2019 grant period, EcoHealth Alliance failed to report the creation of a deadly, more virulent virus that infected humanized cells with ACE2 receptors in laboratory mice, a violation of the terms of their grant.

Those ACE2 receptors are the same receptors utilized by SARS-CoV-2 (the virus responsible for the COVID-19 outbreak) to infect humans, though the NIH states that experiments were never conducted on viruses with any genetic similarities to SARS-CoV-2


My 84-year-old father taught me a lot of things, most notably that "non-disclosure of a material fact is a form of misrepresentation." In other words, Fauci’s lack of mentioning anything regarding the editing of reports or papers on behalf of EcoHealth Alliance, was in fact, a misrepresentation. During Fauci’s now half-dozen or more congressional hearings on the origins of COVID-19, during which Fauci was under oath, never once did Fauci have the intellectual honesty to mention that he has been responsible for editing papers by the same organization and the same lab, which are under that same congressional microscope. Fauci never determined that he was under any moral or ethical requirement to disclose that he had approved funding on a grant on which he was also participating, a misrepresentation (see: lie) about funding research on bat viruses at the WIV.

Throughout the last two years of investigations into the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 outbreak, I have characterized Peter Daszak, the President of the EcoHealth Alliance as the “Bond Villain” in this story. It seemed that everywhere you turned in this story you found Daszak. Daszak organized the opposition to the lab-leak theory, later published in The Lancet scientific journal. Daszak later headed The Lancet‘s own COVID Origins committee, which was later disbanded because of Daszak’s conflict of interest. Daszak was used as a propaganda puppet by the CCP to discount the lab leak theory. Daszak also snaked his way onto the WHO’s investigation team, which later spent only four of the over three-hundred-page report considering the lab-leak theory. Daszak and EHA were also allowed by the NIH and NIAID to define their own research, which allowed the semantic side-step of the US Government bans on Gain-of-Function viral research. The White Coat Waste Project also pointed out, as has also been previously reported here at RedState, that Daszak heaped praise upon NIAID Director Anthony Fauci in the days after the initial outbreak of COVID-19, for denying the potential of a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Posted by:Frank G

#9  "Broken rifles. They won't work and you can't fire them."
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-10-15 16:02  

#8  Imagine the idea of civil servants who actually had to serve the people who pay them.

Radical sci-fi, I know...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-10-15 15:55  

#7  Fire a civil servant?

A concept well with the boundaries of the absurd.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-10-15 15:53  

#6  Hey, come on, you know how hard it is to fire a civil servant. /sarc
Posted by: DooDahMan   2022-10-15 15:45  

#5  The minute it was discovered that Fauci signed off on research grants to Wuhan he should have been fired. Whether it was illegal or not, it should have been. If Congress wasn't loaded with Democrats and RINOs it would be and Fauci would be in federal prison.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-10-15 12:47  

#4  The Branch Covidian Congresswoman Angie Craig (D-Pfizer) in a televised debate this week, spilling the beans:

I will never stop standing up for Big Pharma and standing against my constituents!"

No, not BB.
Yes, she actually said that.
Posted by: Nate B Forrest   2022-10-15 11:21  

#3  Fauci needs to be vivisected. He's a bureaucrat, not an elected official, so that opinion, I don't think, crosses the line.

Apologies in advance if the mods see it differently.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-10-15 10:27  

#2  "non-disclosure of a material fact is a form of misrepresentation" -- applies to all news media coverage of COVID-19 so far.
Posted by: Gromble Dribble4342   2022-10-15 09:21  

#1  Fauci Edited Paper By NIH-Funded Group Tied To Wuhan Lab
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-10-15 08:24  

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