Now, why would Fauci want to shut down scientific debate among scientists?
Trump’s CDC director says Fauci shut down debate on Covid’s origin
Trump administration CDC Director Robert Redfield told a congressional committee Wednesday that his former colleague, Anthony Fauci, and former National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins froze him out of discussions on Covid-19’s origins.
The accusation came during a politically charged hearing Wednesday of the House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic and stoked Republican claims that Fauci in early 2020 promoted the view that an infected animal spread the virus to humans to divert attention from research the U.S. sponsored at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology.
“It was told to me that they wanted a single narrative and then I obviously had a different point of view,” Redfield told representatives.
Redfield said Fauci, who led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the time, and Collins left him out because Redfield suspected the coronavirus had leaked from the Chinese lab.
This made Fauci upset
Fauci, who was not at the hearing, dismissed Redfield’s accusation as “completely untrue.”
“No one excluded anyone,” he told POLITICO after the hearing.
“And the idea of saying that he was not wanted there because he had a different opinion … there were several people on the call who had the opinion that it might have been an engineered virus,” said Fauci, who retired from his government post at the end of last year.
Well, if that’s the case (Fauci also went on with Neil Cavuto), Fauci would have no problem testifying under oath to Congress about it, right? James Comer (R-Ky), chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, should invite Fauci to come testify. And, if he doesn’t want to, subpoena him.
Of course, Democrats were doing their best to protect Fauci, who really did more damage to trusting health institutes that he helped, and were wondering why it even matters where it came from. They just want to move on so people forget about their COVID authoritarianism.
Fauci has proven has has no compunction about lying under oath to congress or to the American people.
Dr Redfield was appointed CDC Director by Trump after Trump appointee Dr Fitzgerald resigned due to scandal after only a 5 mo tenure. Dr Redfield appeared butthurt for not being included in discussions with Drs Fauci (NIAID) and Francis Collins (NIH) about SARS-CoV-2.
Anyway, the nuRight is trying to establish the narrative that Dr Fauci has tried to disprove the laboratory leak claim.
This is the general conclusion of the scientific community – likely from a proximal animal event but a laboratory leak cannot be ruled out. To be clear, it appears most likely that the original SARS-CoV-2 virus was passed from an animal intermediary to humans.
The potential leak from the Wuhan laboratory should NOT be purposefully conflated (by nuCons) with the claim that Chinese scientists used molecular manipulation to construct SARS-CoV-2. It’s likely that nuCons don’t understand the difference, or if they do understand they intentionally confuse the issue for political gain.
The laboratory leak ‘hypothesis’ posits that the ‘natural’ SARS-CoV-2 virus infected lab personnel who then spread the virus by human-to-human contact outside the lab. There is no evidence to support or reject that hypothesis although the DOE and FBI claim it is likely. The DOE and FBI are NOT suggesting that SARS-CoV-2 was created in the Wuhan facility.
The laboratory creation story claims that Chinese scientists, funded by Dr Fauci, intentionally created a coronavirus that binds the human** ACE2 receptor enabling infection leading to significant pulmonary disease. There is no evidence to support this story.
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*Dr Francis Collins is a devout and vocal Christian who believes ‘life’ starts at conception and has written a book on science and Christianity, The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief – 2006.
**Human, cat, dog, monkey, deer, opossum, mink, bat, squirrel… in fact, most mammalian species
Dear Elwood:
You blather a lot, but all of it doesn’t address the claim.
“Trump administration CDC Director Robert Redfield told a congressional committee Wednesday that his former colleague, Anthony Fauci, and former National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins froze him out of discussions on Covid-19’s origins.”
Now, let’s bring Fauci forth and have him address the claim.
Dr Fauci has been before Congress many times and has said he welcomes a return visit. All the blathering House Repubicuns need to do is invite him.
But the blathering House Repubicuns prefer to just criticize Dr Fauci without Fauci having a chance to respond in person.
Dr Fauci responded that he and Dr Collins did NOT freeze out Trump acolyte Redfield.
Do you believe the Chinese constructed SARS-CoV-2 and released it from their lab?
So Redfield lied? Where?
Prove it, ya dumbfuck.
Rand Paul proved Fauci was a liar.
#FauciLiedPeopleDied
#BelieveTheLie
Bwaha! Lolgfy
Trump apparently decided to go along with Fauci’s assessment.
“Trump’s favorite COVID virus origin just got crushed by NH ew study”
Fortune.com
Feb 28, 2022
Amiah Taylor
8% of the more than 900 samples tested around the WuHan live market tested positive for covid with animal handlers often being positive
I remain open minded on its origin. Do you?
Dear H:
The question is this.
When were the tests made???
And since Covid spread rapidly, a group, animals included, testing positive means nothing.
Conmenter:
Are you saying the patterns of positive tests mean nothing? The Chinese euthanized and destroyed the animals at the Huanan Seafood Market before the animals were tested. Covid virus was isolated from the market walls, floors and equipment but could have come from infected humans there. The early Covid positive patients clustered around the market but that doesn’t prove the pandemic originated there.
Dear Elwood:
Go back and read H’s post.
“8% of the more than 900 samples tested around the WuHan live market tested positive for covid with animal handlers often being positive.”
Since a pandemic was going on you would expect positive’s.
No charge for helping you comprehend.
Conmenter blathered:
The value of the help is worth exactly what we paid for it!
Early test results showed cases from around the market and spreading outward. That in itself does not prove that the pandemic originated in freshly butchered hedgehog for taking home.
As Drs Collins and Fauci said it’s possible that earlier isolates of SARS-CoV-2 under study at the Wuhan Institute infected an employee who then spread it to vendors/shoppers at the market.
Dear Elwood:
When was “early”????
Fact remains. We don’t know.
We do know that Fauci was running the NIH and the NIH funded the research.
So he’s not an unbiased observer.