Fauci Via Faust (or, “Fauci The Liar”)

This goes beyond just saying 'Fauchi Lied, People Died.' Dr. Tony said these experiments were worth the risk of a man-made pandemic as far back as 2011, then tried to cover it up.

Jason Cousineau and Eric Renderking Fisk | June 6th, 2021

Jason Cousineau and Eric Renderking Fisk discuss the treasure trove of emails to and from Anthony Fauci that was released to the press that date back from the early months of the pandemic. These emails provided an in-depth look behind the scenes and a glimpse into what he actually thought and believed at the time on topics such as masks to the virus's origins.

Who and what is Anthony Fauci? A liar and a Hypocrite? A machiavellian scientist? A virologist who sold his soul and integrity for knowledge, fame, and fortune? Or just a man who was at the wrong place at the wrong time and suffered from guilt by association, and got caught up in the worst manufactured biological catastrophe of our lifetime? All of the above?

Faust - From Wikipedia: The erudite Faust is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to making a pact with the Devil at a crossroads, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. The Faust legend has been the basis for many literary, artistic, cinematic, and musical works that have reinterpreted it through the ages. "Faust" and the adjective "Faustian" imply a situation in which an ambitious person surrenders moral integrity in order to achieve power and success for a limited term.

Show Notes and Links

Washington Post: "A flu virus risk worth taking," By Anthony S. Fauci, , Gary J. Nabel and Francis S. Collins | December 30, 2011

The Taipei Times: "Can we trust Chinese COVID-19 science? The West has been wary of China’s rise as a scientific superpower, but the COVID-19 pandemic has made it impossible to ignore," By Laura Spinney / The Observer | October 13th, 2020

Wall Street Journal: "The Wuhan Lab Theory If China covered up, as Trump and Pompeo say, release the evidence." May 6th, 2021

The Diplomat: Why Would the US Have Funded the Controversial Wuhan Lab? Reports about the connection between the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the Wuhan Institute of Virology risk feeding conspiracy theories about the origins of COVID-19. By Justin Fendos | May 13, 2020

... A third reason could be the fact that the United States has long held a fierce debate about the ethics and risks of gain-of-function (GOF) research. Critics, such as Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch, have argued that such work “entails a unique risk that a laboratory accident could spark a pandemic, killing millions.” These objections motivated the Obama administration to halt all domestic GOF research in 2011, a restriction that was later lifted in 2017, following the implementation of new safety protocols. Although we do not know exactly what went into the decision to fund the WIV during this moratorium, it is likely that domestic restrictions may have played a role, forcing the proponents of such work to seek opportunities abroad. These proponents are of the opinion that GOF research is worth the risk, being the best way to understand, prevent, and treat pandemics, an argument that is not without merit.

Newsweek: "The Controversial Experiments and Wuhan Lab Suspected of Starting the Coronavirus Pandemic," BY FRED GUTERL , NAVEED JAMALI AND TOM O'CONNOR | May 27th, 2020

Just one day after the U.S. surpassed China to become the country with the highest number of Covid-19 cases, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency updated its assessment of the origin of the novel coronavirus to reflect that it may have been accidentally released from an infectious diseases lab, Newsweek has learned.

The report, dated March 27 and corroborated by two U.S. officials, reveals that U.S. intelligence revised its January assessment in which it "judged that the outbreak probably occurred naturally" to now include the possibility that the new coronavirus emerged "accidentally" due to "unsafe laboratory practices" in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where the pathogen was first observed late last year. The classified report, titled "China: Origins of COVID-19 Outbreak Remain Unknown," ruled out that the disease was genetically engineered or released intentionally as a biological weapon.

"We have no credible evidence to indicate SARS-CoV-2 was released intentionally or was created as a biological weapon," the report found. "It is very unlikely that researchers or the Chinese government would intentionally release such a dangerous virus, especially within China, without possessing a known and effective vaccine." Every scientist interviewed by Newsweek for this story also rejected categorically the notion that the virus was intentionally released.

Reuters: "U.S. intelligence community acknowledges two theories of coronavirus origin," May 27th, 2021

The U.S. intelligence community on Thursday acknowledged its agencies had two theories on where the coronavirus originated, with two agencies believing it emerged naturally from human contact with infected animals and a third embracing a possible laboratory accident as the source of the COVID-19 pandemic.

"The U.S. Intelligence Community does not know exactly where, when, or how the COVID-19 virus was transmitted initially but has coalesced around two likely scenarios," the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said, adding that the majority believes there is not "sufficient information to assess one to be more likely than the other."

The ODNI statement did not identify which two of the 17 agencies constituting the U.S. intelligence community believes the virus had originated with infected animals and which agency believes it originated with a laboratory accident.

In both cases, however, ODNI said the agencies that back one theory of origin or the other did so with "low or moderate confidence" - which in spy jargon means they believe the evidence supporting their view is far from conclusive.

A source familiar with intelligence community analyses said neither the CIA nor the Defense Intelligence Agency presently favor either alternative explanation for the virus' origin, adding they were among the large majority of U.S. agencies who believe information presently is insufficient to determine that one scenario was more likely than the other.

Newsweek: "Dr. Fauci Backed Controversial Wuhan Lab with U.S. Dollars for Risky Coronavirus Research," BY FRED GUTERL | May 28th, 2020

Dr. Anthony Fauci is an adviser to President Donald Trump and something of an American folk hero for his steady, calm leadership during the pandemic crisis. At least one poll shows that Americans trust Fauci more than Trump on the coronavirus pandemic—and few scientists are portrayed on TV by Brad Pitt. But just last year, the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the organization led by Dr. Fauci, funded scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and other institutions for work on gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses. In 2019, with the backing of NIAID, the National Institutes of Health committed $3.7 million over six years for research that included some gain-of-function work. The program followed another $3.7 million, 5-year project for collecting and studying bat coronaviruses, which ended in 2019, bringing the total to $7.4 million.

BuzzFeed: "Anthony Fauci’s Emails Reveal The Pressure That Fell On One Man Thousands of pages of communications obtained by BuzzFeed News show how Fauci tried to keep Americans calm and develop an effective strategy despite conflicts with the Trump administration." Natalie Bettendorf and Jason Leopold |  June 1st, 2021

Dateline: "Dr. Anthony Fauci Book Scrubbed From Amazon, Barnes & Noble After Premature Posts," By Bruce Haring June 2, 2021 8:05pm

Amazon and Barnes & Noble have apparently taken down a new book by Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the chief medical advisor to the president. Fauci’s 80-page book, Expect the Unexpected: Ten Lessons on Truth, Service, and the Way Forward, is expected to be released by National Geographic Books on November 2. On Tuesday, the book was posted for pre-sale online at $18 on both websites. The posts were then removed. National Geographic Books confirmed the removal to DailyMail.com, which reported that the book sale had been posted accidentally and prematurely.

Vanity Fair: "The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19’s Origins Throughout 2020, the notion that the novel coronavirus leaked from a lab was off-limits. Those who dared to push for transparency say toxic politics and hidden agendas kept us in the dark." BY KATHERINE EBAN JUNE 3, 2021

KUSI San Digo: "Dr. Anthony Fauci’s book pulled from stores after emails expose constant hypocrisy," June 3, 2021

Amazon and Barnes & Noble have taken down Dr. Fauci’s new book, following the release of thousands of his emails proving his constant hypocrisy and contradictions.

Dr. Fauci’s emails were obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, spanning from January 2020 to June 2020.

The emails reveal Dr. Fauci had knowledge in early 2020 that “the virus looked engineered,” and that the masks you buy at the store are not really effective in keeping out the virus,” because the virus is small enough to pass through the material.

Wall Street Journal: "Anthony Fauci and the Wuhan Lab Emails add to the mystery over U.S. funds for risky research." June 3rd, 2021

Anthony Fauci’s email correspondence from the early days of the pandemic have ignited a spate of recriminations over masks and the doctor’s celebrity. But what really matters is that some of the emails raise more questions about the origin of Covid-19.

As director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Fauci cast doubt on the theory that Covid-19 came from a laboratory like the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). After ruling it out several times, he publicly said last month it is possible, as the hypothesis was getting a second look in media and academia.

The emails, released after media freedom-of-information requests, show that Dr. Fauci followed debates about Covid-19’s origin from the beginning. In early 2020, the immunologist Kristian G. Andersen wrote to him that the virus had some “unusual features” hinting at manipulation in a lab setting.

Mr. Andersen later published a paper rejecting the lab-leak theory for lack of evidence. And Dr. Fauci began sharing articles arguing in favor of a natural origin while giving advice to scientists writing about the issue. But conclusive proof of a zoonotic origin hasn’t emerged, and it’s reasonable to ask why Dr. Fauci was slow to accept the possibility of a lab leak.

Of particular interest: From 2014-19, the National Institutes of Health sent $3.4 million...

New York Post: "Sen. Paul: Fauci emails prove he knew of Wuhan gain-of-function research," By Samuel Chamberlain | June 3, 2021

New York Post: "Fauci finally admits COVID-19 may have come from a ‘lab leak’ after his emails exposed," By Mark Moore | June 3, 2021

Dr. Anthony Fauci is admitting that the coronavirus could have come from a “lab leak” — as emails released through the FOIA show he was told of “unusual features of the virus” at the beginning of the pandemic — but is blaming criticism of his shifting positions on “people out there” who “resent” him.

“There is no doubt that there are people out there who, for one reason or another, resent me for what I did in the last administration, which was not anything that was anti-Trump at all,” Fauci, a top adviser on the coronavirus to President Biden, said on MSNBC’s “Deadline” Wednesday evening.

Fauci admitted that he “can’t guarantee everything that is going on in the Wuhan lab” in the wake of criticism after a trove of his emails were published Tuesday.

“It was just trying to get the right information, to try and get the right data. What they didn’t seem to understand, I guess that it is understandable that they didn’t understand it, is that science is a dynamic process,” continued Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert.

The Fedora Chronicles: “The Vindication And The Frustration!” The Wuhan Lab Leak Hypothesis Goes Mainstream. Jason Cousineau, Eric Fisk, and Chris Holm | June 2nd, 2021