Thursday's Absurdity of the Day: NIH Proves Fauci's Perjury to Congress

Pretty much all of our corrupt news media will ignore this, so I’m using today’s absurdity piece to inform you all of it.

You will all no doubt remember a few months ago, when Senator Rand Paul forced the Little Menace to Society Anthony Fauci to go on the record during Senate testimony denying that the Nationals Institutes of Health (NIH) had ever provided funding to the Wuhan lab that released the COVID-19 virus on the world for so-called “gain-of-function” research. Sen. Paul told Fauci during that very hearing that he knew he was lying and informed him of the penalties for committing perjury under oath during such a hearing. Yet the Little Menace remained steadfast in his denial.

On Wednesday, the NIH released a letter in which it admits that it did indeed provide funding to the Wuhan lab for gain-of-function research, although it claims that it was not aware that it was doing so at the time the funds were provided.

Richard H. Ebright @R_H_Ebright

NIH corrects untruthful assertions by NIH Director Collins and NIAID Director Fauci that NIH had not funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan. NIH states that EcoHealth Alliance violated Terms and Conditions of NIH grant AI110964.

Newsmax @newsmax

NEW: The NIH has confirmed that taxpayer dollars were used to fund gain of function research. @SchmittNYC shares details.

Here’s an excerpt from a report at the Washington Examiner:

A full two years after Wuhan hosted the 2019 Military World Games, determined by House Foreign Affairs Republicans to be one of the planet's first superspreader events of the novel coronavirus pandemic, a top official at the National Institutes of Health has conceded that contrary to the repeated assertions of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the NIH did indeed fund highly dangerous gain-of-function research on bat-borne coronaviruses in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

In a letter to Kentucky Republican James Comer, the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, Lawrence A. Tabak of the NIH admitted that "out of an abundance of caution," and, of course, after two years of external outrage over the possibility of the lab leak hypothesis, the nation's top medical research agency conducted an additional review of how the funds authorized by Fauci and friends were used by EcoHealth Alliance, the New York City-based nonprofit organization headed by frequent WIV collaborator Peter Daszak.

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Per the letter, EcoHealth did indeed "fail to report" findings required by the terms of the NIH grant, and even more crucially, the biohacking of viruses obtained by EcoHealth, which fall under the obvious definition of gain-of-function experiments, was conducted at the WIV. Tabak ultimately says that the organization headed by Daszak, who spearheaded the silencing of scientists considering whether the novel coronavirus originated from a lab like the WIV, has just five days to respond to the infraction.

Compare the NIH's apparent concession to Fauci's pearl-clutching outrage over the sheer notion that his department carved out exceptions from the Obama-era ban of gain-of-function research to fund the likes of EcoHealth. Not even a year ago, tried and true virologists like Robert Redfield, President Donald Trump's head of the CDC, were smeared as Sinophobic bigots for entertaining the lab leak hypothesis, let alone the notion that Fauci and his friends funded the virus's creation.

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So, to sum up: NIH funded, people died, Fauci lied.

Rand Paul caught the Little Menace in the lie in sworn testimony before congress, but no one should expect Joe Biden’s Justice Department to do a damn thing about it.

This is not just an absurdity, it’s a damn outrage.

That is all.