That Twitter thread about the new NIH grant to Peter Daszak is one of the most insane things I have ever read in my life. Who the hell is running the NIH? How is this in any way possible? This literally feels like it’s out of a nightmare. Whoever decide to issue this funding should be locked up in prison and never allowed to direct any funding ever again.
I’m quite serious about this. What is the most efficient way to start a campaign to get whoever at the NIH funded this grant fired, and show that any future public money that goes to Daszak should be ground for termination from a public health agency?
I will do whatever I can feasibly do to support this campaign. I am not going to stand by while this guy starts another pandemic.
EDIT: The only explanation I can think of that seems even remotely plausible here is that Daszak is involved in some secret government bioweapons program. How else would this make sense? What career politician would stick their neck out to fund this?
It’s not career politicians who are in charge of the NIH.
The NIH itself is run by Lawrence A. Tabak who’s 71 and who ran an NIH institute before that and had a scientific career before that.
The part of the NIH that funds this work is the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases which is led by Fauci.
Daszak did a lot of work to get the lab leak theory suppressed so it makes sense to reward him for that work to show everybody in the virology community that it’s important to suppress the lab leak theory provided those people want to have any funding.
If you want to actually do something about it, it likely requires talking about Fauci’s part is surprising the lab leak theory as well.
I’m imaging a hearing:
Congressman: My Auchincloss, on 1. February of 2020 did Fauci send you an email with an attachment titled “Baric, Shi et al—Nature medicine—SARS Gain of function.pdf”?
Auchincloss: Yes.
Congressman: At the time of reading the email, did you think that the paper was about gain of function research?
Auchincloss: Yes.
Congressman: Do you think Fauci thought that it was about gain of function research?
Auchincloss: I don’t know what Fauci thinks.
Congressman: But at the time did you think that Fauci thought that? Remember you are under oath.
Auchincloss: Well, yes.
Congressman: Given that Fauci said under oath that the paper in question does not contain any gain of function research, do you think he broke his oath?
That seems to me the most straightforward way to get Fauci fired and maybe even thrown in prison (oath breaking gives up to five years in prison). If the Republicans take the House, we might see this happening but I have been too hopeful in the past.
They’d probably call it biodefense. The public rationale of gain-of-function is to be ready for tomorrow’s pandemics; the secret rationale might be, to be ready for tomorrow’s bioweapons.
That Twitter thread about the new NIH grant to Peter Daszak is one of the most insane things I have ever read in my life. Who the hell is running the NIH? How is this in any way possible? This literally feels like it’s out of a nightmare. Whoever decide to issue this funding should be locked up in prison and never allowed to direct any funding ever again.
I’m quite serious about this. What is the most efficient way to start a campaign to get whoever at the NIH funded this grant fired, and show that any future public money that goes to Daszak should be ground for termination from a public health agency?
I will do whatever I can feasibly do to support this campaign. I am not going to stand by while this guy starts another pandemic.
EDIT: The only explanation I can think of that seems even remotely plausible here is that Daszak is involved in some secret government bioweapons program. How else would this make sense? What career politician would stick their neck out to fund this?
It’s not career politicians who are in charge of the NIH.
The NIH itself is run by Lawrence A. Tabak who’s 71 and who ran an NIH institute before that and had a scientific career before that.
The part of the NIH that funds this work is the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases which is led by Fauci.
Daszak did a lot of work to get the lab leak theory suppressed so it makes sense to reward him for that work to show everybody in the virology community that it’s important to suppress the lab leak theory provided those people want to have any funding.
If you want to actually do something about it, it likely requires talking about Fauci’s part is surprising the lab leak theory as well.
I’m imaging a hearing:
That seems to me the most straightforward way to get Fauci fired and maybe even thrown in prison (oath breaking gives up to five years in prison). If the Republicans take the House, we might see this happening but I have been too hopeful in the past.
They’d probably call it biodefense. The public rationale of gain-of-function is to be ready for tomorrow’s pandemics; the secret rationale might be, to be ready for tomorrow’s bioweapons.