Fauci Knew Gain-of-Function Research Risked a Pandemic, He Funded it Anyway

History will not look kindly on Dr. Fraudci.

For months, I haven’t shied away from the position that this medical tyrant deserves the most blame for COVID-19.

He’s the head honcho of the U.S. government agency that began this risky research and offshored it into the hands of the CCP when it was banned in the United States.

Whether or not COVID-19 was a deliberate biological weapon, it doesn’t matter.

The risks of Gain-of-Function research were always present.

And Fauci knew it.

He understood the grave dangers that came with Gain-of-Function research, but he chose to do it anyway.

He even admitted it publicly nearly a decade before COVID-19 was unleashed on the world.

In 2012, Fauci lobbied for Gain-of-Function research despite the obvious, life-threatening risks.

Fauci argued that the benefits outweighed the risks.

Really?

Tell that to the global population whose lives have been shattered thanks to your recklessness and sick experiments.

Here’s the latest:

Fauci In 2012: Gain-Of-Function Research Into Bat Viruses Is Worth The Risk Of A Pandemichttps://t.co/6LV0ZkqQCr

— The Federalist (@FDRLST) May 28, 2021

Fauci acknowledged that a gain of function super virus could escape a lab and cause a pandemic, but that it is worth the risk.  His naïveté should disqualify him from government service.

Fauci In 2012: Gain-Of-Function Research Is Worth Pandemic Risk https://t.co/06xZxPmxXy

— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) May 28, 2021

Bat 🦇 Man Fauci
In 2012 Said Gain of
Function Research 🔬
Was Worth The Risk
Even If Lab Accident
May Cause Pandemic
Try Telling That To The Millions Who Lost Their Loved Ones To COVID 19 https://t.co/vIQL4XLzV7

— Tom Moore (@junogsp7) May 30, 2021

BOMBSHELL! Dr Fauci in 2012 wrote that “gain of function” research to juice up bat viruses was worth risking a pandemic: “the benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks. It is more likely that a pandemic would occur in nature” @SharriMarkson scoop https://t.co/S7ILuzgnNw pic.twitter.com/iwyPCPctId

— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) May 28, 2021

Fauci Argued Benefits of Gain-of-Function Research Outweighed Pandemic Risk in 2012 Paper … https://t.co/WH8gH5fB0l

— Andy McCarthy (@AndrewCMcCarthy) May 28, 2021

EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Fauci argued the benefits of gain-of-function research was worth the risk of a laboratory accident sparking a pandemic. https://t.co/TPPmeHNjBL

— Sharri Markson (@SharriMarkson) May 28, 2021

Fauci has a lot of questions to answer. And he needs to stop playing word games. https://t.co/snFXlcpjKP

— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) May 28, 2021

Check out this resurfaced clip of Fauci briefing Congress about the risks of Gain-of-Function research:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJIi_DotSB4

From The Federalist:

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Anthony Fauci defended “gain-of-function” research in 2012 — wherein scientists extract viruses from the wild and engineer them to infect humans in order to study potential therapeutics including vaccines — as research worth risking a pandemic over.

“In an unlikely but conceivable turn of events, what if that scientist becomes infected with the virus, which leads to an outbreak and ultimately triggers a pandemic?” Fauci wrote in a paper reported on by The Australian. “Scientists working in this field might say — as indeed I have said — that the benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks.”

The revelation of Fauci’s 2012 defense of the research comes as new reports emerge, breathing new life into the lab-leak theory among the political establishment that dismissed the origin hypothesis, which was always credible, as a conspiracy theory.

Reporting on previously undisclosed intelligence this month, the Wall Street Journal published a story of three researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology who were hospitalized with COVID-like symptoms in November 2019, preceding the pandemic’s first outbreak in the Hubei province. The lab, known for its relaxed safety protocols, was reportedly collaborating with the Chinese military and conducting gain-of-function research into bat coronaviruses, according to the Trump State Department in a fact sheet not disputed by officials in the Biden administration.

Two years after Fauci’s defense of the high-stakes research, the U.S. government deemed the work so dangerous it was banned. According to longtime journalist and former New York Times science writer Nicholas Wade, however, Fauci circumvented the U.S. moratorium and supported gain-of-function with grant money from the NIAID funneled through EcoHealth Alliance, operated by Dr. Peter Daszak.

“From June 2014 to May 2019 EcoHealth Alliance had a grant from NIAID, part of the National Institutes of Health, to do gain-of-function research with coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” Wade reported in a lengthy Medium post.

National Review chimed in:

In a newly resurfaced paper from 2012, Dr. Anthony Fauci argued that the benefits of gain-of-function research are worth the increased risk of a potential pandemic-causing lab accident.

The Weekend Australian unearthed a paper Fauci wrote for the American Society for Microbiology in October 2012 in which he argued in support of gain-of-function research. Such research involves making viruses more infectious and/or deadly. Experts have raised the possibility that the COVID-19 pandemic could have originated from a potential lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, where gain-of-function experiments on bat coronaviruses have been conducted.

Despite the risks involved, Fauci called gain-of-function experiments “important work” in his 2012 writing:

In an unlikely but conceivable turn of events, what if that scientist becomes infected with the virus, which leads to an outbreak and ultimately triggers a pandemic? Many ask reasonable questions: given the possibility of such a scenario – however remote – should the initial experiments have been performed and/or published in the first place, and what were the processes involved in this decision?

Scientists working in this field might say – as indeed I have said – that the benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks. It is more likely that a pandemic would occur in nature, and the need to stay ahead of such a threat is a primary reason for performing an experiment that might appear to be risky.

Within the research community, many have expressed concern that important research progress could come to a halt just because of the fear that someone, somewhere, might attempt to replicate these experiments sloppily. This is a valid concern.

The Weekend Australian report adds that Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, did not alert senior White House officials before lifting a ban on gain-of-function research in 2017.

Yet the EcoHealth Alliance diverted $600,000 in grants from the NIH to the WIV in the form of sub-grants from 2014 through 2019, for the purpose of studying bat coronaviruses.

The U.S. government has reportedly assessed that the WIV was conducting gain-of-function research in some form, according to a March Politico excerpt of Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin’s book on the subject. Jamie Metzl, an expert on gene editing for the World Health Organization, has also said that the WIV performed gain-of-function research.

Fauci maintains that no U.S. funding that went to the WIV was directed toward gain-of-function research, but he conceded during congressional testimony this week that it is impossible to guarantee that researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology did not use American funds to perform gain-of-function research on coronaviruses.

Fauci wrote in 2012 that virologists needed to respect “that there are genuine and legitimate concerns about this type of research, both domestically and globally.”

After the madness that has unfolded the past 18 months, do you think it was worth it now Fraudci?