Fauci and NIH continue to lie about 'gain of function' research

From my Fox News op-ed today, “One way of denying that the NIH funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan is to scrub the NIH website of its ‘gain-of-function’ definition.

On October 20th, the NIH admitted in a letter to two Members of Congress that research supported by the NIH in Wuhan did create viruses that gained function or gained in lethality.

On the same day, the NIH removed its previous definition of gain-of-function research from its website and replaced it with another term: "enhanced potential pandemic pathogen" research…

Sen. Rand Paul, MD: NIH lied and continues to lie about 'gain of function' research and COVID https://t.co/DhT7KXCzhk via @foxnews

— Chris ?? (@Chris_1791) November 4, 2021

Under Dr. Fauci’s convoluted definition, no experiment, no matter how deadly the combination, would be considered ‘gain-of-function’ unless the scientists knew in advance that the combination would lead to enhanced lethality.

Under Dr. Fauci’s word salad guidance no experiment combining viruses would ever be denied funding.

The NIH’s old and newly altered website admits that the NIH funds ‘gain-of-function’ research but that it needs to be 'conducted in very high biosecurity laboratories.'  But we can’t even get to the question of whether the Wuhan lab was secure because Dr. Fauci won’t admit that ‘gain-of-function’ research even occurred.”

Read the entire column.