Good news! Bravo! About time!
It was perhaps one of the greatest, mostly underreported scandals of the Covid-19 pandemic that the US government funded gain of function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which is a also a bioweapons research institute. If I am not mistaken, this became known in 2020 and I blogged about it beginning in May 2021 (see e.g. here). The other huge and underreported scandal was the egregious, repeated abuse of the FISA court.
Then NIH Director Francis Collins and then Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Anthony Fauci (then age 80) were the main perpetrators of this scandal. Unfortunately, the first Trump Administration did not realize that! Trump should have fired or demoted these two charlatans/quacks! These two bad actors also undermined the lab leak hypothesis. Was this some kind of Faustian Bargain?
Was this e.g. an attempt to circumvent stricter regulations for and/or possible public outcry against this kind of research in the US?
"President Donald Trump on Monday kept a promise he made last year by signing an executive order that bans federal funding for gain-of-function research in countries like China and Iran, which is believed to be at the heart of the COVID-19 lab leak in Wuhan. ..."
"... This Executive Order:
- Ends any present and all future Federal funding of dangerous gain-of-function research in countries of concern like China and Iran and in foreign nations deemed to have insufficient research oversight.
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