ABC Tees Up Fauci to Deny, Lie About NIH Funding Risky Wuhan Experiments

Nicholas Fondacaro | October 24, 2021
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Late last week, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) wrote a letter admitting that they funded controversial gain-of-function (GOF) research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology where they would take virus samples and make them more infectious to people for the purposes of learning how they acted. All of that was whitewashed by ABC as This Week host George Stephanopoulos teed up Dr. Anthony Fauci to deny and lie about the research they funded.

Of course, instead of looking at what the NIH had done, Stephanopoulos tried to make the story about people supposedly overreacting or making it political. He suggested the controversy was over subcontractor EcoHealth Alliance not disclosing “some results in a timely manner.”

Now, some critics and analysts have seized on that to say you and others have misled the public about U.S. funding of this so-called gain-of-function research. The NIH says that's false. Our medical unit backs that up,” he claimed without evidence.

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