Coronavirus: Thread

[grarpamp]

CDC Redfield begins speaking out...?


Former CDC Director: Fauci-Shaped Paper On Origins Of COVID-19
'Antithetical To Science'
https://www.theepochtimes.com/former-cdc-director-fauci-shaped-paper-on-origins-of-covid-19-antithetical-to-science_4242590.html

https://video.foxnews.com/v/6293888614001

https://www.theepochtimes.com/t-robert-redfield
https://www.theepochtimes.com/new-emails-reveal-faucis-role-in-shaping-highly-influential-paper-that-established-covid-natural-origin-narrative_4225917.html
https://www.theepochtimes.com/fauci-some-on-february-2020-call-believed-covid-19-was-possibly-engineered_3864271.html
https://www.theepochtimes.com/behind-the-scenes-of-the-natural-origin-narrative_4023181.html
https://www.theepochtimes.com/scientists-who-were-instrumental-to-covid-19-natural-origins-narrative-received-over-50-million-in-niaid-funding-in-2020-2021_4220769.html

The claim that the virus that causes COVID-19 definitely was not from
a laboratory, put forth in a paper quietly shaped by Dr. Anthony Fauci
that was cited by other scientists who called the lab idea a
“conspiracy theory,” was “antithetical to science,” a former Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention director says.

“The purpose of science is to have rigorous debate about different
hypotheses. I’ve never really experienced in my life where there was
private telephone calls among scientists that had a decision on what
position they would take collectively, and to see that position then
published in a scientific journal like Lancet, to say that individuals
that thought like myself, had a different scientific hypothesis,
somehow had to be put down and viewed as conspirators, this is really
antithetical to science,” Dr. Robert Redfield, the agency’s head until
Jan. 20, 2021, said during a Jan. 26 appearance on Fox News.
(L-R) Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute
of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, attend a briefing on the
administration's CCP virus response in the press briefing room of the
White House in Washington on March 2, 2020. (Drew Angerer/Getty
Images)

Emails recently made public show that Fauci, director of the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), played a key
role in shaping a paper published by Nature in early 2020.

The authors, most of whom messaged repeatedly with Fauci, joined him
on a teleconference shortly before the paper was published, and have
since received millions from Fauci’s agency, claimed that their
analyses “clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct
or a purposefully manipulated virus.”

The Nature article was one of those cited by EcoHealth Alliance
founder Peter Daszak and a separate group of scientists in an article
later published in The Lancet. “We stand together to strongly condemn
conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural
origin,” wrote Daszak, whose group funneled money from Fauci’s agency
to scientists in Wuhan, China, and the other authors.

Many experts later acknowledged there’s no clear evidence that the CCP
virus has a natural origin, and some have said the bulk of the
evidence points to it coming from the set of laboratories in Wuhan.

Redfield is one of them.

“I don’t think it’s biologically plausible that this virus emerged
from a bat to some intermediate species into humans and became one of
the most transmissible viruses that we know in human disease. This
virus clearly had a detour and that detour was being educated how to
infect human tissue in the laboratory. I think that’s the most
plausible explanation,” he told Fox.

Dr. Francis Collins, Fauci’s boss when he was the head of the National
Institutes of Health, and Fauci were trying to “protect science” by
suppressing debate over the virus origins, Redfield posited. The
problem is, “there’s very limited data” to support their position, he
told Fox.

Asked if Fauci, who has been in his position since 1985, should be
fired, Redfield demurred but said he did think Fauci should “reflect
on this and then provide the science leadership that we need to move
forward.”

“I have a lot of respect for him over the years. I think he needs to
step back and not try to second guess and make things a way that he
thinks the world can hear. We should just tell the truth,” Redfield
said.

NIAID didn’t respond to requests for comment.

Redfield also said that he believes scientists will eventually solve
the mystery of the origin of the virus.