Wed Jan 12, 2022 – 2:01 pm EST
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – The research nonprofit that received a grant from White House COVID-19 czar Dr. Anthony Fauci to explore gain-of-function (GOF) research on coronaviruses had previously been turned down by another government agency over the work’s potential dangers, according to documents obtained by the conservative investigators of Project Veritas.
Veritas reports that the documents concern the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA’s) rejection of a March 2018 funding request by EcoHealth Alliance for GOF research, which entails intentionally strengthening viruses to better study their potential effects. DARPA concluded that the project would violate a preexisting moratorium on such research, and noted that EcoHealth’s pitch “does not mention or assess potential risks of Gain of Function (GoF) research.”
Yet the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which was under Fauci’s direction at the time (and still is today), went on to approve a grant for EcoHealth, which put the money toward research at several sites, including China’s controversial Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).
Fauci and his defenders have vociferously denied the claim that the work NIAID approved constitutes gain-of-function research, but the new documents indicate
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