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Miloch
Jul 22, 2021, 12:19:17 PM7/22/21
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...that he lied to Congress over 'gain-of-function' research at Wuhan lab
more at
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9812519/Dr-Fauci-blasts-Rep-Rand-Pauls-inflammatory-slanderous-accusations-lied-Congress.html
*Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sen. Rand Paul is 'out of tune with reality' and was
'completely out of line' for claiming he lied under oath during a Senate
hearing
*Fauci appeared on MSNBC a day later and said, '(Paul) was completely out of
line. He totally distorted reality'
*Fauci said Paul made 'inflammatory' and 'slanderous' remarks during the Senate
hearing when he said Fauci was lying
*Paul and Fauci clashed Tuesday during Senate hearing after Paul accused Fauci
of lying under oath to cover up 'gain-of-function' research in China
*The NIH definition of gain of function includes 'scientific research that
increases the transmissibility among animals is gain-of-function' and can be
weaponized
*Fauci hit back, telling Paul that he was the one who was spreading lies
*Tuesday night, Paul went on Fox News and told Sean Hannity that he wanted Fauci
brought up on charges for lying to Congress
Dr. Anthony Fauci has said Sen. Rand Paul is 'out of tune with reality' and and
blasted the Kentucky Republican for making 'inflammatory' and 'slanderous'
remarks during Tuesday's fierce exchange in a Senate hearing.
Paul accused Fauci of funding 'gain-of-function' research in China's Wuhan lab
and then lying under oath in front of Congress, which Fauci adamantly denied.
The men exchanged words and each called the other a liar.
The usually even-keeled Fauci was still fired up during a Wednesday appearance
on MSNBC's 'The Beat' with Ari Melber, who pointed out Fauci's fiery response
was such a contrast to his public demeanor.
'What was so important or concerning to you about that?' Melber asked.
'(Paul) was completely out of line. He totally distorted reality,' Fauci
responded.
'And he made some inflammatory and I believe slanderous remarks about lying
under oath, which is completely nonsense.
'I mean, and some of the things he says are so distorted and out of tune with
reality, I had to call him on that. I didn't enjoy it, but I had to do that
because he was completely out of line. Totally inappropriate.'
After the verbal jousting during Tuesday's Senate hearing, Paul went on Fox News
and told host Sean Hannity that he'll be writing to the Justice Department
seeking 'a criminal referral' because Fauci 'has lied to Congress.'
Paul has insisted that Fauci funded 'gain of function' research in the Wuhan lab
in China, whereby viruses are manipulated to make them more lethal and
transmissible. The Wuhan lab is now seen as a possible source for the COVID-19
pandemic.
Fauci has confirmed that his organization, the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases, funded research at Wuhan, but is adamant that the money was
not direct towards gain of function.
Paul didn't believe him Tuesday night and hasn't believed him for months.
'We have scientists that will line up by the dozens saying the research he was
funding was gain of function,' Paul told Hannity Tuesday night.
'He is doing this because he has a self interest to cover his tracks and to
cover his connection to Wuhan lab.
'Now does he deserve all the blame? No, there's still some conjecture as to
whether or not it came from the lab.
'But he is lying about whether or not he funded gain of function research, and
yes, he should be punished.'
The Justice Department is highly unlikely to seek prosecution of Fauci, who
works within the government as Biden's chief medical advisor.
Paul has championed a Republican campaign to get Fauci, 80, removed as the head
of the NIAID.
Paul accused Fauci of orchestrating a coverup of his role in funding the Wuhan
lab.
'Once the public figures out that they were doing very, very dangerous research
there, gain of function research, taking dangerous animal viruses and making
them transmissible to humans, he realizes where the blame is going to attach,'
Paul told Hannity.
'He has at least tangential responsibility.
'If this came from the lab that he was funding, my goodness, could you imagine
the moral culpability that the man has?'
Paul, a medical doctor and an ophthalmologist, pointed out that gain of function
research was currently being carried out in Galveston, Texas and in North
Carolina.
'So this is a big debate, not just over blame, but over whether or not this
could happen again in the United States,' he said.
Fauci earlier on Tuesday angrily denied Paul's accusation that he was lying.
'I have not lied before Congress,' said Fauci.
'I have never lied. Certainly not before Congress. Case closed.'
Fauci told Paul before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Committee, saying a study the senator mentioned referenced a different sort of
virus entirely from the one responsible for the coronavirus outbreak.
'Senator Paul, you do not know what you're talking about, quite frankly,' Fauci
said.
'And I want to say that officially. You do not know what you're talking about.'
He added: 'If anybody is lying here, senator, it is you.'
He defended allocating $600,000 to a group called EcoHealth Alliance, which then
paid the Wuhan Institute of Virology to study the risk that bat coronaviruses
could infect humans.
Paul grilled Fauci in May about the $600,000 in funding allocated for EcoHealth
Alliance, which turned around and paid the Wuhan Institute of Virology to study
how bat coronavirus could infect humans.
Fauci defended that allocation during a hearing before a congressional budget
committee
The $600,000 in funding was reinstated in August after a different earlier grant
was blocked in April 2020 amid concern over safety at the Wuhan lab.
Paul insisted during the terse exchange that the money was being used for gain
of function research. Fauci, however, insisted the money was not used for this
purpose.
'You are entirely and completely incorrect,' Fauci told Paul at the hearing.
'The NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain of function research in the
Wuhan Institute.'
Gain of function research looks at both transmitting disease between animals and
humans and is a way for scientists to alter organisms and diseases to study how
they could become deadlier or more transmissible.
The NIH definition of gain of function includes 'scientific research that
increases the transmissibility among animals is gain-of-function.'
The Kentucky senator repeatedly questioned Fauci on gain of function – and the
U.S. indirectly funding that research in China – on a few occasions. The theory
has emerged in conservative circles as a potential answer to the origins of
COVID-19.
Last month, Paul also accused Fauci of lying and demanded he be fired after a
slew of his emails were made public.
Paul claimed to Fox News early in June that thousands of emails revealed by
Buzzfeed News and the Washington Post proved Fauci may have been in-part
responsible for the development of COVID-19.
The emails reveal that Fauci was warned privately of the possibility that the
origins of COVID were due to a lab leak in Wuhan – even though he publicly
dismissed the ideas and allowed Democrats to call it a conspiracy.
The email revelation did not show Fauci's personal take on the theory.
*
more at
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9812519/Dr-Fauci-blasts-Rep-Rand-Pauls-inflammatory-slanderous-accusations-lied-Congress.html
*Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sen. Rand Paul is 'out of tune with reality' and was
'completely out of line' for claiming he lied under oath during a Senate
hearing
*Fauci appeared on MSNBC a day later and said, '(Paul) was completely out of
line. He totally distorted reality'
*Fauci said Paul made 'inflammatory' and 'slanderous' remarks during the Senate
hearing when he said Fauci was lying
*Paul and Fauci clashed Tuesday during Senate hearing after Paul accused Fauci
of lying under oath to cover up 'gain-of-function' research in China
*The NIH definition of gain of function includes 'scientific research that
increases the transmissibility among animals is gain-of-function' and can be
weaponized
*Fauci hit back, telling Paul that he was the one who was spreading lies
*Tuesday night, Paul went on Fox News and told Sean Hannity that he wanted Fauci
brought up on charges for lying to Congress
Dr. Anthony Fauci has said Sen. Rand Paul is 'out of tune with reality' and and
blasted the Kentucky Republican for making 'inflammatory' and 'slanderous'
remarks during Tuesday's fierce exchange in a Senate hearing.
Paul accused Fauci of funding 'gain-of-function' research in China's Wuhan lab
and then lying under oath in front of Congress, which Fauci adamantly denied.
The men exchanged words and each called the other a liar.
The usually even-keeled Fauci was still fired up during a Wednesday appearance
on MSNBC's 'The Beat' with Ari Melber, who pointed out Fauci's fiery response
was such a contrast to his public demeanor.
'What was so important or concerning to you about that?' Melber asked.
'(Paul) was completely out of line. He totally distorted reality,' Fauci
responded.
'And he made some inflammatory and I believe slanderous remarks about lying
under oath, which is completely nonsense.
'I mean, and some of the things he says are so distorted and out of tune with
reality, I had to call him on that. I didn't enjoy it, but I had to do that
because he was completely out of line. Totally inappropriate.'
After the verbal jousting during Tuesday's Senate hearing, Paul went on Fox News
and told host Sean Hannity that he'll be writing to the Justice Department
seeking 'a criminal referral' because Fauci 'has lied to Congress.'
Paul has insisted that Fauci funded 'gain of function' research in the Wuhan lab
in China, whereby viruses are manipulated to make them more lethal and
transmissible. The Wuhan lab is now seen as a possible source for the COVID-19
pandemic.
Fauci has confirmed that his organization, the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases, funded research at Wuhan, but is adamant that the money was
not direct towards gain of function.
Paul didn't believe him Tuesday night and hasn't believed him for months.
'We have scientists that will line up by the dozens saying the research he was
funding was gain of function,' Paul told Hannity Tuesday night.
'He is doing this because he has a self interest to cover his tracks and to
cover his connection to Wuhan lab.
'Now does he deserve all the blame? No, there's still some conjecture as to
whether or not it came from the lab.
'But he is lying about whether or not he funded gain of function research, and
yes, he should be punished.'
The Justice Department is highly unlikely to seek prosecution of Fauci, who
works within the government as Biden's chief medical advisor.
Paul has championed a Republican campaign to get Fauci, 80, removed as the head
of the NIAID.
Paul accused Fauci of orchestrating a coverup of his role in funding the Wuhan
lab.
'Once the public figures out that they were doing very, very dangerous research
there, gain of function research, taking dangerous animal viruses and making
them transmissible to humans, he realizes where the blame is going to attach,'
Paul told Hannity.
'He has at least tangential responsibility.
'If this came from the lab that he was funding, my goodness, could you imagine
the moral culpability that the man has?'
Paul, a medical doctor and an ophthalmologist, pointed out that gain of function
research was currently being carried out in Galveston, Texas and in North
Carolina.
'So this is a big debate, not just over blame, but over whether or not this
could happen again in the United States,' he said.
Fauci earlier on Tuesday angrily denied Paul's accusation that he was lying.
'I have not lied before Congress,' said Fauci.
'I have never lied. Certainly not before Congress. Case closed.'
Fauci told Paul before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Committee, saying a study the senator mentioned referenced a different sort of
virus entirely from the one responsible for the coronavirus outbreak.
'Senator Paul, you do not know what you're talking about, quite frankly,' Fauci
said.
'And I want to say that officially. You do not know what you're talking about.'
He added: 'If anybody is lying here, senator, it is you.'
He defended allocating $600,000 to a group called EcoHealth Alliance, which then
paid the Wuhan Institute of Virology to study the risk that bat coronaviruses
could infect humans.
Paul grilled Fauci in May about the $600,000 in funding allocated for EcoHealth
Alliance, which turned around and paid the Wuhan Institute of Virology to study
how bat coronavirus could infect humans.
Fauci defended that allocation during a hearing before a congressional budget
committee
The $600,000 in funding was reinstated in August after a different earlier grant
was blocked in April 2020 amid concern over safety at the Wuhan lab.
Paul insisted during the terse exchange that the money was being used for gain
of function research. Fauci, however, insisted the money was not used for this
purpose.
'You are entirely and completely incorrect,' Fauci told Paul at the hearing.
'The NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain of function research in the
Wuhan Institute.'
Gain of function research looks at both transmitting disease between animals and
humans and is a way for scientists to alter organisms and diseases to study how
they could become deadlier or more transmissible.
The NIH definition of gain of function includes 'scientific research that
increases the transmissibility among animals is gain-of-function.'
The Kentucky senator repeatedly questioned Fauci on gain of function – and the
U.S. indirectly funding that research in China – on a few occasions. The theory
has emerged in conservative circles as a potential answer to the origins of
COVID-19.
Last month, Paul also accused Fauci of lying and demanded he be fired after a
slew of his emails were made public.
Paul claimed to Fox News early in June that thousands of emails revealed by
Buzzfeed News and the Washington Post proved Fauci may have been in-part
responsible for the development of COVID-19.
The emails reveal that Fauci was warned privately of the possibility that the
origins of COVID were due to a lab leak in Wuhan – even though he publicly
dismissed the ideas and allowed Democrats to call it a conspiracy.
The email revelation did not show Fauci's personal take on the theory.
*
Yak
Jul 25, 2021, 8:21:16 AM7/25/21
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Miloch wrote
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> ...that he lied to Congress over 'gain-of-function' research at Wuhan
> lab
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> more at
> https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9812519/Dr-Fauci-blasts-Rep-Rand
> -Pauls-inflammatory-slanderous-accusations-lied-Congress.html
Senator Paul hasn't fully recovered from his brain damage caused by that
beating he took on his front lawn from his neighbor.
Sure the guy got angry because Rand was drunk and tried to have sex with his
Schnauzer, but he didn't need to beat the piss out of him.
His wife would have divorced him by now, but like Rand, she's become too used
to all those taxpayer funded Senatorial perks. True Libertarian he is.
>
> ...that he lied to Congress over 'gain-of-function' research at Wuhan
> lab
>
> more at
> https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9812519/Dr-Fauci-blasts-Rep-Rand
> -Pauls-inflammatory-slanderous-accusations-lied-Congress.html
beating he took on his front lawn from his neighbor.
Sure the guy got angry because Rand was drunk and tried to have sex with his
Schnauzer, but he didn't need to beat the piss out of him.
His wife would have divorced him by now, but like Rand, she's become too used
to all those taxpayer funded Senatorial perks. True Libertarian he is.
Yak
Aug 3, 2021, 5:24:47 PM8/3/21
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Miloch wrote
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> ...that he lied to Congress over 'gain-of-function' research at Wuhan
> lab
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> more at
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> ...that he lied to Congress over 'gain-of-function' research at Wuhan
> lab
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> more at
Yak
Aug 22, 2021, 1:20:46 PM8/22/21
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Miloch wrote
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> ...that he lied to Congress over 'gain-of-function' research at Wuhan
> lab
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> more at
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> ...that he lied to Congress over 'gain-of-function' research at Wuhan
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Miloch
Aug 24, 2021, 1:13:12 AM8/24/21
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>In article <sfu117$rig$8...@news.dns-netz.com>, Yak <y...@inbox1.com>
>wrote:
>He's had it hard though, condemned to go through life named after Ayn
>Rand.
Actually, his first name is "Randall"...but I like the Ayn Rand urban legend
better...it has a certain panache that his personality is lacking!
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super70s says...
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>In article <sfu117$rig$8...@news.dns-netz.com>, Yak <y...@inbox1.com>
>wrote:
>Rand.
Actually, his first name is "Randall"...but I like the Ayn Rand urban legend
better...it has a certain panache that his personality is lacking!
*
Miloch
Aug 24, 2021, 1:22:39 AM8/24/21
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In article <super70s-FAB03B...@reader02.eternal-september.org>,
super70s says...
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>In article <sfu117$rig$8...@news.dns-netz.com>, Yak <y...@inbox1.com>
>wrote:
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super70s says...
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>In article <sfu117$rig$8...@news.dns-netz.com>, Yak <y...@inbox1.com>
>wrote:
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Yak
Sep 6, 2021, 11:00:00 PM9/6/21
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> lab
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> more at
Yak
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Yak
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Yak
Oct 6, 2021, 10:06:01 AM10/6/21
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Yak
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Yak
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Yak
Dec 7, 2021, 5:38:49 PM12/7/21
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