One of the most influential papers arguing against the COVID-19 lab-leak theory was covertly crafted by three scientists with substantial histories of conducting gain-of-function research, an investigation by U.S. Right To Know revealed.

The paper in question, “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2,” was published in March 2020 in “Nature Medicine” by five notable researchers specializing in microbiology, immunology and infectious diseases. Three individuals who were not listed as authors — Dr. Marion Koopmans, Dr. Ron Fouchier and Dr. Christian Drosten — were significant influences on its contents, according to USRTK.

Koopmans, Fouchier and Drosten all have glaring conflicts of interest that call into question their ability to be impartial regarding the possibility that a lab accident released a genetically engineered virus that went on to cause the global pandemic. Koopmans is the head of virology at the Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands, and Fouchier is her deputy. Erasmus is a collaborator with EcoHealth Alliance, a now-infamous non-profit responsible for funneling U.S. taxpayer money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, according to Science.

Until today, the Proximal Origin letter still does not acknowledge that one of its authors collaborated with Wuhan scientists to study novel SARS-like viruses and that the letter had input from gain-of-function advocates and funders of the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

— Alina Chan (@Ayjchan) October 27, 2022

As for Drosten, he conducts gain-of-function (GoF) research funded by the German government. GoF research involves genetically modifying pathogens to make them more dangerous by enhancing their infectiousness or lethality. (Read more from “Landmark Anti-lab Leak Paper Was Covertly Influenced by Compromised Scientists” HERE)

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With over 600 million COVID-19 cases and 6.4 million deaths, scientists, who may be implicated as contributors to its laboratory creation and participants in a cover-up of its laboratory origin, continue to be rewarded rather than aggressively investigated.

In August 2020, the EcoHealth Alliance and Boston University jointly announced receiving a $1 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention Phase One research program.

According to the EcoHealth Alliance’s press release, its new NSF grant will continue the coronavirus experiments now underway between Peter Daszak of the EcoHealth Alliance and the “bat woman” Zheng-Li Shi of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, citing an August 9, 2022 scientific publication, research funded by Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

It is well-known that Peter Daszak has a long history of collaborating with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and many other Chinese scientists, including members of China’s People’s Liberation Army, like Wuchun Cao.

There is also evidence that Peter Daszak led an effort to suppress any discussion of the laboratory origin of COVID-19 by labeling it a conspiracy theory.

What neither press release from the EcoHealth Alliance and Boston University mentions is the additional connection between the $1 million NSF grant and Boston University’s controversial National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) Biosafety Level-4 facility, handling the world’s most deadly viruses and located in the South End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.

One of the principal investigators of the $1 million NSF grant is Nahid Bhadelia, who is Associate Director of NEIDL and co-authored a medical article with present Centers for Disease Control Director Rochelle Walensky, in which they strongly supported the now thoroughly discredited argument that lockdowns decrease COVID-19 mortality, while also calling natural herd immunity “a dangerous fallacy unsupported by scientific evidence.”

The Director of NEIDEL is Ronald Corley, who is a co-author with Peter Daszak on the infamous politically-motivated March 7, 2020 Lancet article, in which they “strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin,” at a time when there was already scientific evidence indicating a laboratory origin.

It appears that all the elements that led to the COVID-19 pandemic and all those involved in dangerous “gain of function” virus research are still operating as they did just prior to the outbreak, perhaps now even in the center of a major American city with potentially devastating consequences.

All the scientists and all the U.S. government officials potentially involved in the laboratory creation of COVID-19 and any subsequent cover-up of its laboratory origin need to be thoroughly investigated and brought to justice as appropriate.

That goes double for the COVID-19 vaccines.

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Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D. is retired U.S. Army Reserve colonel and a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq. He had a civilian career in international business and medical research. Dr. Sellin is the author of Restoring the Republic: Arguments for a Second American Revolution. His email address is [email protected].

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Despite testifying before Congress to the contrary, new evidence appears to prove that National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci and NIH Director Francis Collins approved grants for gain-of-function virus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Gain-of-function research involves extracting natural virus samples from animals and engineering them to infect humans for the development of therapeutics and vaccines. Gain-of-function research was banned in the United States in 2014, but that didn’t stop the NIH from funding such research before the ban was lifted by the Obama administration days before he left office.

Both Fauci and Collins have denied approving grants for the controversial research through EcoHealth Alliance, Inc. and the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but a letter from NIH Principal Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak to House Oversight Committee ranking Republican James Comer contradicts their testimony.

“NIH — and specifically, Collins, Fauci, and Tabak — lied to Congress, lied to the press, and lied to the public,” says Dr. Richard H. Ebright, Board of Governors professor at Rutgers University’s Waksman Institute of Microbiology. “Knowingly. Willfully. Brazenly.”

The letter from Tabak describes the results of a limited experiment, where “laboratory mice infected with [a modified bat coronavirus] became sicker than those infected with the [original] bat coronavirus.”

The NIH received the relevant documents in 2018 and reviewed the documents in 2020 and again in 2021.

The NIH–specifically, Collins, Fauci, and Tabak–lied to Congress, lied to the press, and lied to the public. Knowingly. Willfully. Brazenly.

— Richard H. Ebright (@R_H_Ebright) October 20, 2021

(Read more from “Fauci Lied: NIH Finally Admits Funding Research at Wuhan Lab” HERE)

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