Dr. Fauci previously argued that conducting risky experiments and manipulating contagious viruses was worth the work, even if a lab accident could lead to a deadly pandemic.
The Australian reported on the newly unearthed comments Fauci made in the American Society for Microbiology in October 2012.
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“In an unlikely but conceivable turn of events, what if that scientist becomes infected with the virus, which leads to an outbreak and ultimately triggers a pandemic?” Fauci wrote, according to The Australian.
“Many ask reasonable questions: given the possibility of such a scenario – however remote – should the initial experiments have been performed and/or published in the first place, and what were the processes involved in this decision?
“Scientists working in this field might say – as indeed I have said – that the benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks.”
Dr. Fauci was grilled by Senator Rand Paul for supporting and funding gain-of-function experiments being conducted in the Wuhan lab
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It is clear workers at the Wuhan lab successfully isolated the coronavirus and were actively experimenting with species-to-species transmission.
Fauci lied under oath and claimed the NIH never funded gain-of-function research in the Wuhan institute.
Dr. Fauci not only funded gain-of-function research, we now know that he supported these risky experiments even if the work could lead to deadly zoonotic pandemic.
