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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting that there hasn't been more DCUM discussion of the Fauci hearings which just concluded in the House.   House Republicans brought Fauci in and grilled him for hours on a whole range of the wacko far right conspiracy theories, yet came up EMPTY.

Dana Milbank breaks it down:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/03/fauci-testimony-congress-covid-conspiracy/

[code]Documents and testimony the panel gathered over 18 months, while finding misbehavior by a grant recipient and by an adviser to Fauci, produced nothing to substantiate these wild allegations. The United States did not fund research that created the pathogen. Fauci didn’t lie about the U.S. role in “gain of function” research at the laboratory in Wuhan, China. He didn’t try to suppress the lab leak theory, or bribe people to reject it. He didn’t get rich off the pandemic, either — although he testified that he earned about $120 a year from an antibody he developed years ago.[/code]

That pretty much settles it.  The US House of Representatives, with all of its resources, tried mounting a partisan witch hunt, investigated Fauci with access to files and documents not available to the general public, and used its ability to haul in Fauci and other witnesses to grill them and get sworn testimony - and yet totally FAILED to make the case on the litany of Fauci and COVID coverup conspiracy theories.   As such, some rando on the internet, some talking head on right wing media has even less worthwhile or legitimate commentary to make on the subject of Fauci and COVID conspiracy theories.

So just f off and shut up, people.[/quote]

Oh, Fauci definitely was very clever with his words. He can truthfully say NIH didn't directly fund the COVID research in Wuhan because NIH didn't directly hand over the money to WIV, but NIH knew about Peter Daszak and EcoHealth Alliance. And Fauci unquestionably summoned a bunch of the leading virologists in the US to a major meeting, a number who had previously expressed astonishment at aspects of the COVID DNA sequence seemingly being unnatural, and then suddenly after the meeting all double down on COVID being naturally occurring, and gave no reason for their change of minds.

A logical explanation is that Fauci and his peers genuinely were afraid of Trump and that he would weaponize COVID as part of his reelection strategy and use it as an excuse to thoroughly gut Federal spending for scientific research. And there's no shortage of circumstantial evidence including the correspondence over private emails to avoid FOIA (which in turn makes you ask what exactly were they afraid of),

Still, the irony is that we've gone from COVID IS NATURALLY OCCURRING to pretty much everyone accepting it was a lab leak except for the most partisan adherent. A lot of what we were told in the early years of COVID was misinformation turned out to be true. Sooner or later the truth always comes out. It may take more time for Fauci's full role to become more apparent. [twitter]If Trump wins, I do expect this to be a prominent DOJ investigation. [b] [/quote]

I don’t think anything has been conclusively proven, but I suppose Republicans will spend all their time and energies trying to string together conspiracy into fact. And To what end?  - to cover for the fact that Trump totally bungled the response in a way that lead to millions of people needlessly dying? To cover for the fact that China owns our consumerist economy? To the fact that we are worse off now for the next pandemic?

This article isn’t the gotcha you think it is.

Whatever the scientists feared from Trump, it is likely true. He is no friend to anything that advances the human endeavor. [/quote]

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