Congressional hearings showed that Dr. Fauci and former NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins weren't just observers. They actively helped create "The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2" paper that shut down the lab leak theory early on. Emails prove Fauci and Collins pushed scientists to be more dismissive of the lab leak possibility, with Nature rejecting the first draft for not being strong enough against it. After publication, Fauci cited this paper at press briefings without telling anyone he helped create it.
Here's what makes this look fishy. A CIA whistleblower testified that six of seven technical experts at the CIA initially believed COVID came from a lab, but someone changed their report at 1:53 a.m. to say "we may never precisely know the origin." The whistleblower also said Fauci handed them lists of scientists to talk to at key moments. Money was involved too. One scientist who wrote the Proximal Origin paper got a $9 million grant from Fauci's agency after changing his mind about where the virus came from.
The missing evidence is glaring. We never found an infected bat with COVID-19, which is strange since with past viruses like SARS, we did find infected animals that showed us where the disease came from. At the same time, we know Fauci's agency was funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab. That's research that makes viruses more dangerous or transmissible. In fact, scientists there had successfully made bat coronaviruses stronger in experiments that Fauci's agency paid for. This creates a situation where the guy telling us it wasn't a lab leak was also paying for the exact research that might have caused it.
