NIH. CDC. FDA. EPA. ACIP People embedded in the US government regulatory agencies with first loyalties to corporate profits are destroying America. It’s time to throw the bums out.
George Washington, the first President of the United State of America, set a tradition by declining to serve more than two terms. Franklin Delano Roosevelt held on to his party’s leadership and was the first president to run for and win a third term. It took an act of Congress to prevent other Presidents from seeking third terms. The 22nd amendment reads:
“No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.” (Source: Constitution Daily).
Anthony Fauci is the epitome of deadwood. It isn’t ageist to say that he cannot possibly be the best scientist in the US to run the NIAID. The same goes for Francis Collins. They represent a serious problem – one that plagued the Soviet Union. They’re bureaucrats, not scientists. They have ties and affiliations and (literally) an old-boys-network. And they have been around long enough. That last sentence was just me being nice: they have been around too long.
Fauci has admitted lying about masks – and he has clearly lied to Congress, blatantly, unapologetically, attempting a game of semantics to hide the fact that his agency funded gain-of-function research – during a period of time when a national moratorium was in place. The moratorium on the gain-of-function research was put in place because the SARS virus – or variants thereof – escaped labs like the Wuhan Institute of Virology. It was put into place to prevent pandemics. Fauci thought – and still thinks – that the risk of a pandemic is “worth” the goals of doing gain-of-function research. He’s either mad, or he is being controlled by someone who has the goods on him. Either way, he has to go.
In a congressional hearing on May 11, 2021, Senator (and doctor) Rand Paul stated that “the U.S. has been collaborating with Shi Zhengli of the Wuhan Virology Institute, sharing discoveries about how to create super viruses. This gain-of-function research has been funded by the NIH.” Fauci responded “with all due respect, you are entirely and completely incorrect…the NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research [conducted at] the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
Fauci lied. With the release of the actual grant proposal that funded EcoHealth Alliance, the smoking gun text (Section C3d) has been provided to the public by The Intercept (full document here):
“(C3d) Humanized mouse in vivo infection experiments: To evaluate pathogenicity of bat-CoVs we will perform in vivo infection experiments in humanized mice modified to carry human ACE2 or DPP4 gene in the Wuhan Institute of Virology BSL-3 animal facility. We will passage isolated bat-CoVs in permissive cells twice, administer a specific inoculum (e.g. 1×106 TCID50) to intranasally or intraperitoneally. Mouse body temperature will be monitored with implanted microchips (LifeChip Bio-thermo, Destron Fearing), and mice will be weighed and observed for clinical signs of illness daily. Dead or moribund mice will be euthanized, organs harvested and sectioned. Live animals will be euthanized at three weeks post-inoculation and organs harvested. We will test for neutralizing antibodies against bat-Co Vs on days 10, 15 and 21 pi. We will collect nasal washes, oral swabs, and rectal swabs, and urine every two days and quantify virus using qRT-PCR. We will conduct routine histology, immunohistochemistry, qRT-PCR, and virus isolation on tissues. This work will provide information about viral pathogenicity, tissue tropism, transmission route, and infection symptom.
The PI (Peter Daszak), and co-authors on the study proposal, state clearly that the serial passage work will be conducted to adapt a variety of types of SARS viruses to humanized receptors, including ACE2 and DPP4. That’s the very definition of gain-of-function research.
This part of the proposal was not a sub-project. It was a full Specific Aim. Specific Aims are the overarching goal of a research study; most proposals to NIH have three Specific Aims. The gain-of-function research funded by Fauci was Specific Aim 3:
Specific Aim 3: Testing predictions of CoV inter-species transmission. We will test our models of host range (i.e. emergence potential) experimentally using reverse genetics, pseudovirus and receptor binding assays, and virus infection experiments in cell culture and humanized mice. With bat-CoVs that we’ve isolated or sequenced, and using live virus or pseudovirus infection in cells of different origin or expressing different receptor molecules, we will assess potential for each isolated virus and those with receptor binding site sequence, to spill over. We will do this by sequencing the spike (or other receptor binding/fusion) protein genes from all our bat-CoVs, creating mutants to identify how significantly each would need to evolve to use ACE2, CD26/DPP4 (MERS-CoV receptor) or other potential CoV receptors. We will then use receptor-mutant pseudovirus binding assays, in vitro studies in bat, primate, human and other species’ cell lines, and with humanized mice where particularly interesting viruses are identified phylogenetically, or isolated. These tests will provide public health-relevant data, and also iteratively improve our predictive model to better target bat species and Co Vs during our field studies to obtain bat-CoV strains of the greatest interest for understanding the mechanisms of cross-species transmission.
What they proposed was to find out how much evolution would have to occur before we would see a SARS-virus that could infect humans. They had already reported that they had discovered a SARS virus that could bind to the ACE2 receptor, so they did serial passaging, using US taxpayer dollars, to see if the virus could gain a new function: the ability to bind to human ACE2 receptors better.
Fauci knew they were breaking US law by funding such research during the moratorium. He knew when he was sitting across from Rand Paul when he tried to re-define gain-of-function research as a way out of having been caught lying to Congress.
One of the definitions of Fascism, according to Merriam Webster, is “a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control”.
Fauci believes he can control reality by being the person who defines reality. In reality, Fauci has lost touch with reality. For example, he actually believes he is Science incarnate (Forbes: ‘Attacks On Me, Quite Frankly, Are Attacks On Science’).
Scientists don’t change definitions of what they did to change the reality of what they did. And if they do, they don’t really change the reality of what they did. And when they do, they are no longer Scientists.
The fact that Fauci believes he lives in a world in which his speech generates reality tells us how far gone public health is from anything that can be helpful to the people of the United States and the world. Reliance on Public Health is reliance on the appeal-to-authority fallacy. Reliance on Public Health is reliance on layers of confirmation biases. Reliance on Public Health is reliance on a myopic vision of the future of medicine – a homogeneous, top-down, authoritarian view that has no regard for individual rights, informed consent, and the central tenets of protection of human subjects from the harms of unwanted experimentation. The operational agenda of public health is to force Science to fit policy, not the other way around. And now Public Health deigns to assume control of all of allopathy – forcing medicine to fit Science to policy, not the other way around. Policy and medical practices should be empirical, based on what we actually see, measure and know. Those measurements should not be designed or modified to fit a policy.
When they are, people get hurt, and people die.
We cannot rely on Fauci’s tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control. We cannot rely on Dr. Wen’s interpretation of the Constitution, thus my tweet from earlier today:
When the media publishes stories about the unvaccinated clogging hospitals, our response should be that the physicians should be held accountable for denying all COVID-19 patients, vaccinated or not, access to early treatment.
Doctors denying early treatment are killing patients. Period.
Some are even coming out admitting that they now realize that CDC’s PCR testing has led them to the unwitting practice of euthanizing people.
We cannot rely on FDA’s advisory committee, which is filled with people who have conflicts of interest (more on that in another article soon).
Science is on our side. Their Fascism requires and depends on the denial of and the destruction of Science. Stay strong, we will win this. Reality is on our side, and no matter how badly they dress up Pseudoscience and parade her around as if she is Science, real Science will win out. Rely on Science.
This article was originally published on September 18, on https://popularrationalism.substack.com, and was written by Dr. James Lyons-Weiler, PhD: “sharing research and interpretation, not medical or legal advice.” Dr. Jack, as he is affectionately called, is a human rights advocate, CEO, President and Scientist with The Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge (IPAK) and IPAK-EDU, editor-in-chief of the peer reviewed journal, Science, Public Health Policy, and the Law, guest contributor for the Children’s Health Defense, national speaker and author of The Environmental and Genetic Causes of Autism, Cures vs. Profits: Successes in Translational Research and Ebola: An Evolving Story.
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