(September 10, 2021 at 8:43 am)Fake Messiah Wrote:Quote:Psaki dismissed these accusations at a Thursday press conference, denying that Fauci lied to Congress about the nature of the research and emphasizing that the viruses studied under the grant program were unrelated to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevo...-in-wuhan/
There is definitely some backtracking here. Technically, the research done was Gain Of Function research. One could argue that the details of it wasn't causing the virus to become more dangerous to humans (and wasn't doing something that couldn't happen in nature anyway -- best to study it), but it sounds like Fauci didn't know about the details of this grant, and now there are weasel-words going on.
Anyway, we knew last year that Wuhan had referenced GOF research in a paper, but there was never any evidence they were doing it with anything similar to the current coronavirus.