...was shown in his recent exchange with Senator Rand Paul, in which Dr. Paul pointed to a paper by the Wuhan Institute of Virology, funded in part by the NIH, where "chimeric" coronavirii, modified by workers at WIV, were created. In these "chimerae", it was found that transmissibility between animals and humans increased.
When Dr. Paul noted that this is gain of function, the response by Dr. Fauci was that the research funding had been vetted by experts (the appeal to authority fallacy), and that the particular virii would not end up as SARS-COV-2.
Well, yes, but Dr. Fauci certainly ought to know that both funding and research are fungible, money spent on capital for one type of gain of function research benefiting other research, and the lessons learned in gain of function research for this kind of virus would likely be applicable for others.
It's not total proof that WIV is responsible for leaking or creating COVID-19, but Dr. Fauci's obfuscation is a sign that we ought to look a little bit more with this.
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