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ME's avatar

Have not seen the fruit of Senator Paul's subpoenas to Dr Fauci - when he is finally brought in to testify under oath, again, in a Senate hearing, he must tell the truth, he can not claim the 5th amendment over these questions because he's received a pardon. If he lies now under oath, it's a new offense and he can be prosecuted. Waiting. Always waiting...

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Tardigrade's avatar

I live for that day.

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Curt's avatar

Amen!

I doubt that anyone will be held accountable for their actions and the NYT cohorts can’t go away fast enough because surely they have all the evidence they need to show the massive lies told about COVID.

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Vivien C Buckley's avatar

Excellent article. The pandemic stole lives. The rapidly delivered antidote stole lives and left many of us with permanent injuries and no knowledge of further or increasing harms. I have yet to be shown anything that remotely justifies GOF research and not heard one person give any satisfactory explanation for its continuance. Why does it exist? I am so angry that all this subterfuge exists about the leak and the vaccine injuries leaving the majority of the public believing the lies that have been propagated to shield the very people who created both the virus and the shots. This is criminal but the perpetrators get off Scott free. Grrr.

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Tardigrade's avatar

Based on a long lifetime of consuming movies and novels, I think it's plausible that no matter what the NIH does in terms of cutting off funding for gain-of-function research, the military and intelligence services will simply continue doing it one way or another.

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Tardigrade's avatar

What about the bioweapons labs in Ukraine, and how that integrates with all this, as well as the war.

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Bon Kwi Kwi's avatar

GOF research grew out of decades of DOD’s weaponization wet dreams. Long in the works, remember the vaccine was not created for the virus; the virus was created for the vaccine. Drs Fauci and Collins were intimately involved.

https://dralanbradford.com/blog/2022/2/24/ctcctcggcgggcacgtag-moderna-fcs

https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2021/10/20/dr-anthony-faucis-little-known-biodefense-work--its-how-he-became-the-highest-paid-federal-employee/

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/moderna-forks-over-400m-to-nih-amid-dispute-over-covid-vaccine-ip/

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KaiKai's avatar

Nice summary. 2 additional points to consider.

There have been questions raised about research work going on at Fort Detrick’s Integrated Research Facility in 2019. The IRF-Frederick was not only collaborating with NIAID but a part of its Division of Clinical Research. What work was Detrick doing and any questions raised about speculations of a leak, it’s temporary closure in late summer 2019 really need to be laid to rest.

Second, any NIH funding for pathogenic viruses needs a whole lot more attention given to therapeutics.

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Thomas Marsh's avatar

As much as we are centered upon the “gain of function programs” we are missing the point of the very evil that created The Third Reich…The entire corrupted and vicious anti-human nature that had totally lost its moral compass and as we have seen created the very environment of crimes against humanity. Millions were lost by human direction as part of The Final Solution…and here we have similar results. Why are there zero comparisons to such human depravity as we have seen with this covid experience….The resultant years of life ultimately lost..early deaths…and disability both in kids and adults may even over the years equate to that terrible tragedy. The blanket pardon for any criminal acts discovered is beyond any rational level of justice for those harmed by these evil people…amoral and without ethical boundaries is the perfect storm for crimes against humanity. Let us move past the obvious gain of function to the motivation to their well greased well planned Final Solution 2020 style…apply what we were during the Nuremberg Trials and publicly expose ALL involved. Many of these agents of human harm are still awaiting orders to do the same again, they must be removed.

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Tardigrade's avatar

'NIH has forfeited public trust and can no longer be relied upon to serve as the gatekeeper for high-risk pathogen research.'

I have hopes that the new leadership at HHS and NIH will reform the agencies in order to prevent future abuses. Nevertheless, I'm not holding my breath.

I'm curious what the author thinks about this.

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PamelaDrew's avatar

"Gain-of-function is a process where virologists manipulate a virus's genetic sequence to make it more transmissible, lethal, or able to overcome countermeasures. After making a virus more dangerous through gain-of-function, researchers then try to figure out how to defeat it. "

Half true.. Gain of Function is synthetic clones in cell culture and the foundation for ALL virology. Their CRISPR clones are grown in E.coli because RNA molecules can never be cultured and grown in quantity to be studied the replication of bacteria is hijacked to do this.

Petrie dish models as a proxy for nature or immune systems has been adopted as reality when there is ZERO biology to support the idea of RNA molecules spilled from a single source and circling the globe. Nature does not have unchanged replication that is a Biotech Mafia signature. Read the 2016 NIH funded GoF Review that explains this is how ALL flu vaccines are designed. Pandemic molecules is a lie that cannot be explained by any biology only bad ideas about people behaving like petrie dish clones in purity that can NEVER exist in nature.

All the pandemic exercises and paper trails can be contorted to make a great story but the science does not support these molecules replicating in the wild or in humans where PCR fraud purports to find specs in open air tests with specks of mucus. These swabs diagnose nothing but feed human DNA into tracking as remnants sold to the Human Genome Project.

https://web.archive.org/web/20161206155142/http://www.gryphonscientific.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Risk-and-Benefit-Analysis-of-Gain-of-Function-Research-Final-Report.pdf

PCR Fraud explained https://stream.gigaohm.bio/w/3442q71n6uzwMckdXtxa7N

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Jonathan Latham's avatar

These insights are valuable, thank you. Re passaging as the way to make dangerous viruses, we have a theory of COVID's origin that is basically that. The theory is ignored (I think) because it doesnt fit with anyone's agendas. Certainly it still fits the evidence even though we proposed it in 2020: https://www.independentsciencenews.org/commentaries/a-proposed-origin-for-sars-cov-2-and-the-covid-19-pandemic/

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PamelaDrew's avatar

Passaging or petrie dish clones grown in E.coli are like highly enriched uranium.. science can make a batch of pure clones that might be dangerous for primary exposure but they NEVER change the Laws of Nature and give wild RNA molecules the fidelity to replicate in identical sequence and pandemic. Bad models and bad ideas are all that spread.

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Dan Sirotkin's avatar

You are so incredibly dishonest and arrogant, how many more millions need to die before you start citing the actual peer-reviewed science?

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Laurie's avatar

Karl and Dan Sirotkin's early papers pointed exactly to serial passage. Worth the $5 to read. Is Kawaoka at UW still doing it? https://www.harvard2thebighouse.com/p/letter-on-the-origins-of-sars-cov

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Dan Sirotkin's avatar

BLESS YOU KIND STRANGER!!

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Laurie's avatar

Glad to raise attention to you and your Dad's work. I noticed you left X so trying to push your substack to raise awareness that some of those "experts" you call out are the same cats on X allowing the lab mice to play whilst the cat looks through a peephole. Wish I could share the comical depictation on this reply. Stay safe.

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Randall Wadsworth's avatar

If virology and infectious disease physicians are to have any credibility, they ought to be studying how to treat someone who is infected. There are thousands of viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, etc. Medicine can figure out treatments, if researchers can be unbiased. Dr Fred Klenner realized decades ago how useful IV/IM vitamin C is for a myriad of infectious illnesses and poisoning. This research bias to manipulate microorganisms is a military, doomsday cult of mad science experiments. Somehow NIH got co-opted into a DOD research paradigm. This will never serve public health and well being. Fauci and company helped create the wickedness at NIH, NIAID, etc. Undoing that is the mission of RFK, Makary, and Bhattacharya. Supporting them is absolutely critical for the future of public health not dedicated to a doomsday cult that Fauci created. Covid laid bare the all pervasive sickness in our public health bureaucracy for those who care to look. Please stop all GOF research, period. Thanks, Paul, for finding an NIH insider to give us another hint of the mischievousness there.

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Laverne Miller MD's avatar

The PROBLEM is that we had a strong leader. We need vision. But we are Scientists, and we may disagree. Why not have multiple democratic groups managing along with an uninterested Neutral group writing the checks and A THIRD GROUP CHECKING THAT IT GOT DONE AND FURTHER THAT it is doing what it is supposed to with a lot less buddy-buddy? They obviously can kill as many as the Defense Department. God spare us. NO ONE PERSON SHOULD HAVE THAT KIND OF POWER. At least we can tell the President goodbye after 4 years (I hope). We also need a Fourth Column where complaints can be turned in anonymously when any wrong Politics begins to brew. (Like Abuse).

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Dan Sirotkin's avatar

WHOEVER YOU ARE MR. RESEARCHER, YOU SHOULD KNOW YOU ARE VERY OPENLY PLAGARIZING THE PEER-REVIEWED WORK THAT'S SEVERAL YEARS OLD - WHY DO YOU REFUSE TO CITE ANY OF THIS?

My father and I wrote two peer-reviewed papers focusing on serial passage as the method used to engineer this virus all the way back in 2020 and 2021, this is the second time I've written you about this - Why are you refusing to cite the peer-reviewed research that's several years old?

"Might SARS‐CoV‐2 Have Arisen via Serial Passage through an Animal Host or Cell Culture?"

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7435492/

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.202100017

Additionally, those papers were based on a whitepaper written all the way back in January 2020, which a FOIA shows members of the DOE's LLNL emailing around from 2021 to 2023 - Why do you continue to pretend like our work does not exist?

https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/DOE-docs.pdf

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