NIH Admits Fauci Lied About Gain-Of-Function Funding To Wuhan Lab

In a letter released Wednesday, a top National Institute of Health official admitted taxpayers help fund gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses and noted that EcoHealth Alliance, which helped funnel money to the Wuhan lab "failed to report" findings "required by the terms of the grant."

Dr. Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University, who was critical of Dr. Anthony Fauci's gain-of-function testimony in front of the Senate back in May where Fauci claimed, during an exchange with Sen. Rand Paul that “the NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain of function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology ,” writes that Wednesday's letter "corrects untruthful assertions" from Fauci and former NIH director Dr. Francis Collins.

Ebright tweeted Wednesday that the letter sent by Lawrence A. Tabak of the NIH to Republican Rep. James Comer shows that "untruthful assertions by NIH Director Collins and NIAID Director Fauci that NIH had not funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan."

A vindicated Rand Paul wasted no time correcting the record.

"HHS Deputy admits Fauci’s NIH funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan but says it was 'an unexpected result,'" Sen. Paul tweeted Thursday morning. "If the experiment combines unknown viruses and tests their ability to infect and damage humanized cells, of course the result is ‘unknown' before the experiment.

"But it is not 'unexpected' that the virus gains in function it is simply ‘unknown.'

"So, if this type of experiment created a virus that had 50% mortality (like MERS which they have experimented with in Wuhan), that result would be 'unknown' before the experiment but not 'unexpected.'"

Here's what Fauci told Sen. Paul in May 2021:

"The NIH has not ever, and does not now fund gain-of-function in the Wuhan Institute. We have not funded gain-of-function on this...I will repeat again, the NIH and the NIAID categorically has not funded gain-of-function research."