Chris still doesn’t get it. Fauci wasn’t just mistaken—he knew Wuhan had a lab specializing in SARS viruses, he knew he’d funded that lab, and he did everything in his considerable power to hide that. That’s the epic story journalists left—and continue to leave—just lying there.

@ChrisCillizza Not only did Fauci know that there was a lab doing experiments on this exact kind of virus in Wuhan, he knew he’d funded that lab. And he did everything in his considerable power to hide that. That’s the epic story all you journalists left—and continue to leave—just lying there.

@ChrisCillizza Nope, Fauci claimed his first association with Wuhan was wet markets when he very well knew that there was a high security lab studying this specific type of virus in Wuhan. The average person wouldn’t know that, but he absolutely did and chose to sweep the facts under the rug.

The obfuscation and coverup over the last 5 years on COVID origins are the most appalling misbehavior I’ve ever witnessed. People I’ve worked with at NIH—leaders and communicators—should be fired. Science journalists I’ve worked with should be eternally ashamed.

@P_J_Buckhaults @VPrasadMDMPH They’re confidential meetings so it’s hard to see them as public communication.

@0rf This concludes with a clip that makes the WHO sound reasonable. If so, why was Jeremy Farrar hired as chief scientist when it was already known to all that he’d helped lead the coverup?

@drbrivers @gsducker @NIH Communications freeze; they can only leak it.

Nothing in the HHS guidance prevents study sections from meeting. This is a political ploy by NIH to rile up the scientific community.

@nickmmark I’m having trouble understanding how a freeze on public communications should prevent study sections from meeting.

RT @emilyakopp: There will be a lot of pearl clutching. But the World Health Organization never credibly addressed the cause of the worst p…

"[A pardon] carries an imputation of guilt; acceptance a confession of it." Burdick v. United States, 236 U.S. 79, 94 (1915)

RT @emilyakopp: A million American deaths. No accountability for the chief bureaucrat responsible for exporting high risk coronavirus virol…

@stevemur Climate change like viruses exists, whatever your politics.

RT @Garineh_: @Rebecca21951651 NIH funds the large majority of biomedical research. Thus, when it becomes embarrassing to NIH to admit that…

@mattwridley I appreciate your perseverance and clarity on this topic, but I have yet to see this widely covered in the US. Maybe that changes tomorrow. I’m still waiting for Fauci and Collins to face consequences for their tragically bad judgment before 2020 and their shameless coverup since

@VivekGRamaswamy Costs are half the problem. The other half is the substantially lower life expectancies in the US. The profit motive clearly hasn’t been working well to deliver healthcare.

RT @ProGof39474: @JamesCTobias NIH sounds like a really fun place to work for the open-minded and curious.

@Rebecca21951651 NIH funds the large majority of biomedical research. Thus, when it becomes embarrassing to NIH to admit that the source of the biggest pandemic in 100 years might have been a lab, very few biomedical researchers will say otherwise.

@Rebecca21951651 @phl43 Factor in the money we must spend on cars (which are far more necessary in the US) and education (which is much more expensive), on top of having to spend much more on healthcare etc., life in America feels precarious as well as strapped.