Thread by @CurtisHouck

.@MarthaMacCallum is torching NIH Director Francis Collins over #FauciEmails. She asked about one w/the subject line "conspiracy gains momentum" re: the lab theory, but he lamented this is something he "never thought...would become a topic for Fox News" & they never dismissed it

YIKES: NIH Director Collins insists there needs to be "an evidence-based expert-driven open investigation" on the origins of the virus, but @MarthaMacCallum shot back that many claims were shot down if they were from the right. Collins confirms, saying many were too "outrageous"

.@MarthaMacCallum then asks about the NIH funding projects and gain of function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but Collins gets upset, saying he's "a bit unhappy" and "disturbed" Martha is asking these questions. He adds we should look forward and not look back.

In response to Martha saying "we need to understand what happened here instead of just assuming that it was coming from an animal," Collins reiterates it likely came from an animal b/c it's been the case w/previous coronaviruses and a change would require "extraordinary evidence"

Martha started to thank him for coming on and taking the tough questions, but Collins griped that she wasted his time by "talking about some issue that we need an answer to and, meanwhile, people are still dying" when the latter should be the focus, not why this happened. (5/5)