It’s not career politicians who are in charge of the NIH.
The NIH itself is run by Lawrence A. Tabak who’s 71 and who ran an NIH institute before that and had a scientific career before that.
The part of the NIH that funds this work is the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases which is led by Fauci.
Daszak did a lot of work to get the lab leak theory suppressed so it makes sense to reward him for that work to show everybody in the virology community that it’s important to suppress the lab leak theory provided those people want to have any funding.
If you want to actually do something about it, it likely requires talking about Fauci’s part is surprising the lab leak theory as well.
I’m imaging a hearing:
Congressman: My Auchincloss, on 1. February of 2020 did Fauci send you an email with an attachment titled “Baric, Shi et al—Nature medicine—SARS Gain of function.pdf”?
Auchincloss: Yes.
Congressman: At the time of reading the email, did you think that the paper was about gain of function research?
Auchincloss: Yes.
Congressman: Do you think Fauci thought that it was about gain of function research?
Auchincloss: I don’t know what Fauci thinks.
Congressman: But at the time did you think that Fauci thought that? Remember you are under oath.
Auchincloss: Well, yes.
Congressman: Given that Fauci said under oath that the paper in question does not contain any gain of function research, do you think he broke his oath?
That seems to me the most straightforward way to get Fauci fired and maybe even thrown in prison (oath breaking gives up to five years in prison). If the Republicans take the House, we might see this happening but I have been too hopeful in the past.
It’s not career politicians who are in charge of the NIH.
The NIH itself is run by Lawrence A. Tabak who’s 71 and who ran an NIH institute before that and had a scientific career before that.
The part of the NIH that funds this work is the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases which is led by Fauci.
Daszak did a lot of work to get the lab leak theory suppressed so it makes sense to reward him for that work to show everybody in the virology community that it’s important to suppress the lab leak theory provided those people want to have any funding.
If you want to actually do something about it, it likely requires talking about Fauci’s part is surprising the lab leak theory as well.
I’m imaging a hearing:
That seems to me the most straightforward way to get Fauci fired and maybe even thrown in prison (oath breaking gives up to five years in prison). If the Republicans take the House, we might see this happening but I have been too hopeful in the past.