Last week, Sen. Rand Paul and National Institute of Allergy and Infection Diseases Director Anthony Fauci went at it again. This time, the issue was whether or not the nation’s top doctor had allowed funding for gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has delivered on his statement last week that he will ask the Department of Justice (DoJ) for a criminal investigation of Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and chief medical advisor to the president, for allegedly lying to Congress.
“I think he has self-interest in not being attached to this research, because more and more of the evidence is pointing towards the virus having come out of that lab.”
This is the second time in three days that he’s been indignant about Paul’s accusations without explaining what makes them so outrageous. Given that the 2017 study cited by Paul described NIH funding for the development of chimeric viruses that were tested on ACE2 receptors found in humans, how is that not “gain of function” research?
