The U.S. House of Representatives has released preliminary spending bills for the 2025 fiscal year...NIH would face...a ban on...gain-of-function…research....The bill also includes a plan…to collapse NIH’s 27 institutes and centers into 15 institutes."

science.org/content/articl… "Among other changes,...ARPA-H, a 2-year-old [slush fund for NIH administrators' cronies] with...current $1.5 billion budget would be cut to $500 million, with the $1 billion distributed across other institutes [that, unlike ARPA-H, fund important research]."

"Steve Luby…at Stanford…has concerns about the safety of the experiments the new facility will make possible…Luby, who for 8 years investigated…Nipah virus outbreaks,…says…'if we…get pandemic viruses released, this is a catastrophe for all of us."

science.org/content/articl… Luby: "accidental releases are common"

Luby: "We should weigh in on this as a society very seriously"

"Ebright said if COVID-19 came from the lab in Wuhan, which he thinks is a high likelihood, 'it came out of that lab because of weaknesses, flaws, in U.S. federal oversight of biosafety and biorisk management.”'"

njour.nl/s/725458/?unlo… "Ebright told senators that 'only after there is an acknowledgement that there is a very real possibility... of a lab origin, will there be the political will to impose regulation on this scientific community that has…resisted…regulation for two decades.'"

"The Pentagon has admitted that it has no idea to what extent it has funded the creation of deadly viruses in an adversarial nation it has identified as its 'top pacing challenge'"

theblaze.com/news/pentagon-… "The report noted...that for "'seven awards, a prime awardee provided funds to a subawardee or contracting research organization in China or other foreign countries for research related to potential enhancement of pathogens of pandemic potential.'"

"[T]he Senate Armed Services Committee unanimously passed...amendment to the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act to close all potential pathways for EcoHealth Alliance to receive further federal defense funding."

freebeacon.com/national-secur… "The move comes after NIH principal deputy director…Tabak admitted during a congressional hearing…that EcoHealth Alliance used federal funding to conduct gain-of-function research with the Wuhan Institute of Virology."

"The evidence continues to mount that the most likely source of…source of the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19,…was…gain-of-function research that was funded, at least in part, with our own tax dollars."

theblaze.com/news/lab-wars-…


"While much of the world has only recently woken up to this reality, one man, Dr. Richard Ebright, has been warning us for 20 years that this day was coming."

"For 20 years, his warnings have largely been ignored, primarily thanks to Dr. Anthony Fauci."

"[F]or the last two decades, Fauci has been by far the most important defender of what might be fairly called a bioweapons research program that the public now knows — albeit imperfectly — as 'gain-of-function'” research."

theblaze.com/news/lab-wars-…
"The US government started the ball rolling on this dangerous research in…2001…[T]he al-Qaeda attacks of 9/11 were followed…by a series of…anthrax attacks, in which prominent individuals…. were mailed envelopes with…white powder that…tested positive for anthrax."

Excerpts from oral statement:

"I assess that a large preponderance of evidence indicates SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, entered humans through a research incident." "First: COVID emerged in Wuhan, a city that is 800 miles from the closest bats harboring SARS‑CoV-2-like viruses that could have served as progenitors of SARS‑CoV-2, but that contains labs that, prior to the outbreak, were conducting the world's largest research program on bat SARS viruses, possessed the world's largest collection of bat SARS viruses, and possessed the virus most closely similar to SARS‑CoV‑2."

"Ebright said…'SARS-CoV-2 is the only one of more than 800 known SARS viruses that possesses a furin cleavage site. Mathematically, this…implies…the probability of finding a natural SARS virus possessing a furin cleavage site is less than 1 in 800."

thehill.com/policy/healthc…
"A Senate hearing Tuesday on the origins of the COVID-19 virus explored the foremost theories, with lawmakers and witnesses exchanging arguments over which one they believed."

"Richard Ebright said in his opening statement before the Senate Homeland Security Committee that the 'large preponderance of evidence indicates SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, entered humans through a research incident.'"

nypost.com/2024/06/18/us-… "Ebright...added that 'no — zero — secure evidence points toward a natural origin of COVID.'"

Hearing: US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee

"Origins of COVID-19: An Examination of Available Evidence"

written statement of Richard H. Ebright:


archived video:
hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittees/…
hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/origi…
"Conclusion:

A large preponderance of evidence indicates that COVID-19 has a human origin, rather than a natural origin, with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, having entered humans through a research-related incident."

"[C]ongressional investigations into the NIH have revealed…scientists have conducted…dangerous experiments with little oversight…NIH officials have consistently resisted transparency at every stage of various congressional inquiries."

statnews.com/2024/06/14/nih… "While most NIH researchers and employees are hardworking people devoted to scientific and medical advancements, this agency’s involvement with the now-debarred EcoHealth Alliance and subsequent cover-up have broken the public’s trust in the agency."

"We are writing to bring to your attention significant breaches of publishing ethics regarding the paper titled 'No credible evidence supporting claims of the laboratory engineering of SARS-CoV-2' by Shan-Lu Liu, Linda Saif, Susan Weiss, and Lishan Su, published...2020" "The authors’ and editor's private email communications (2), obtained through an Ohio Public Records Act request, provide compelling evidence...to infer the paper may be the product of scientific misconduct, up to and including fraud"

"[S]taff of the House Energy and Commerce Committee recommended in a report Tuesday that the federal government 'remove final review and approval for so-called gain-of-function research from the NIH"

statnews.com/2024/06/11/hou… "The authority over these types of studies — which involve making a virus more transmissible or virulent in a lab, and are seen by some as risky — [sh]ould go to a 'wholly independent' entity that would publish reports of its decisions."

"Fauci's…department 'deceived' Congress over its plans to create a Frankenstein monkeypox virus that had pandemic potential, a new report says…NIAID submitted plans to create a…more lethal strain of Mpox in 2015, when…Fauci was still in charge."

mol.im/a/13519709 "The plans to create a deadlier and highly contagious pathogen were given the green light, but those involved repeatedly lied to lawmakers, asserting the research had never been approved."

The MPXV research posed existential risks and has no--zero--civilian applications.

NIAID-OD's funding of the research violated US policies on gain-of-function research in effect in 2014-2017 and US policies on enhanced potential pandemic pathogen research in effect in 2018-present. NIAID-OD's cover-up and obstruction of Congressional investigation of its funding for engineering of MPXV include criminal violations.

"For nearly nine years Anthony Fauci’s institute concealed plans to engineer a pandemic capable mpox virus with a case fatality rate of up to 15 percent, congressional investigators revealed in a new report Tuesday."

usrtk.org/risky-research… "In June 2015, a scientist at...NIAID received formal approval from the National Institutes of Health’s Institutional Review Board for experiments expected to engineer an mpox virus with high transmissibility and moderate mortality."

House E&C Committee: US House Interim Staff Report on Investigation into Risky MPXV [Monkeypox Virus] Experiment at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

d1dth6e84htgma.cloudfront.net/MPVX_Interim_S…
"In oversight requests to the NIH, E&C sought information to better understand the potential risks and benefits of…gain-of-function research…to enhance the transmissibility and pathogenicity of clade II MPXV by inserting genes from clade I MPXV."

"In the case of the Covid-origins dispute…the most pertinent…evidence by which novices judge experts is…an appraisal of…biases…[I]f two people give contradictory reports, and…one…has a reason to lie, the…credibility of the latter is…compromised."

chronicle.com/newsletter/the… "Proponents of the lab-leak hypothesis like Richard Ebright have long asserted that the case for Covid’s natural origins has been dishonestly favored by the very scientists, including Anthony Fauci, who they say bear some responsibility for the pandemic."

House Judiciary Committee letter to Anthony Fauci, 06/07/24:

"On June 3, 2024, you testified before the Oversight Committee’s Select Subcommittee…that you…did not play a part in the 'push to downplay the lab leak theory.' This is false on its face."

"[T]he…Select Subcommittee alleges…you…have taken 'part in a conspiracy amongst the highest levels of NIAID' to 'destroy' or 'hide' 'official records regarding the origins of COVID-19,' including by conducting official business on your personal email and deleting official records in an attempt avoid…FOIA and public disclosure to the American people

"At yesterday's congressional hearing, the former NIAID director played word games and shifted blame in an effort to dismiss credible claims that his agency funded work that caused the pandemic."

reason.com/2024/06/04/ant… "In a now-infamous 2021 exchange with Sen. Rand Paul…, Anthony Fauci…said that…NIH…'has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.'"

"We now know this is not true."