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6 stories tagged "covid-origins"

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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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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Two Journals That Buried the Lab-Leak Question Now Warn of a 'Gilded Age' in American Science

The Lancet and Science marked America's 250th by casting the administration's research cuts as vandalism. Both journals spent the public trust they now invoke, and the editorials never mention how.

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Fauci's Pardon Was Supposed to End This. It's the Reason He Can't Stay Quiet.

Rand Paul subpoenaed Anthony Fauci on June 22 after declassified documents reopened the COVID-origins question, and the preemptive pardon meant to shield him is why he cannot refuse to answer.

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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.