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Investigations

Fauci's Top Adviser Admitted to Hiding COVID Emails and Taking Wine for a Natural-Origins Commentary

David Morens pleaded guilty to conspiring to run NIH business through Gmail to dodge FOIA, and to taking wine as an illegal gratuity tied to a commentary declaring COVID had natural origins. Fauci was not charged.

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Two Words Open Fauci's Pandemic Diary: 'GAME ON!!!'

Anthony Fauci's private diary greets the pandemic with 'GAME ON!!!' and, in the same January 2020 entry, records that the first infection traced to early December and that the Wuhan market was 'the amplifier,' not the source.

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Months Before Officials Told Pregnant Women the COVID Shot Was Safe, Fauci Privately Flagged a Theoretical First-Trimester Miscarriage Risk

Senators Ron Johnson and Rand Paul pulled the first messages off Fauci's government iPhone: a January 2021 chain in which he privately flagged a theoretical first-trimester miscarriage risk, months before official guidance told pregnant women the shot carried no such concern.

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Two Scientists Nominated Fauci for Cash Prizes. Then His Agency Funded Them by the Hundreds of Millions.

The emails Rand Paul released July 24 show Fauci's taxpayer-funded staff drafting his award nominations, and two scientists who submitted them going on to draw large NIAID grants.

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A Gene-Editing Trial Killed a Six-Year-Old. The Only Official Penalty Was a $3,500 Fine.

Xinhua Hospital paid about 24,000 yuan in September 2025. The death it was fined over stayed out of the medical literature for another ten months, and out of the Nature paper entirely.

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The Crisis Was Unexpected. The Org Chart Wasn't.

Internal NIH correspondence and the public record both point to a pandemic-response architecture, and the people to run it, assembled years before Covid arrived.

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Becerra Got the Fauci Whistleblower File. The HHS Inspector General Did Not.

A whistleblower told the Director of National Intelligence in August 2021 that Anthony Fauci lied to Congress about gain-of-function funding. The file was routed to Xavier Becerra, Fauci's cabinet boss, instead of the independent HHS Inspector General. The paper trail is now public.

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Vietnam's New Integrity Rule Arrives 251 Retractions Late

Vietnam's Ministry of Science and Technology issued a research-integrity framework with permanent bans on May 25, 2026. The Retraction Watch database already lists 251 retractions carrying Vietnamese affiliations.