3 Points the Media Is Still Getting Wrong About Wuhan Lab Theory, and the Documents to Prove It

Security personnel keep watch outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology during the visit by the World Health Organization team tasked with investigating the origins of COVID-19, in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, on Feb. 3, 2021. Thomas Peter/Reuters

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Thanks to some confusing verbal gymnastics by Dr. Anthony Fauci, some in the media are giving the impression that there’s no proof that U.S. tax money funded gain-of-function research, or that perhaps the research didn’t qualify as gain-of-function. However, the evidence on this point is clear-cut.

1. US taxpayer money did go to controversial gain-of-function research.

A 2015 published study specifically discloses that the research is gain-of-function research that took bat coronavirus that was harmless to people—and made it infectious in humans. The study further states that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) approved continuation of the research, even amid a general ban on such studies. (See study excerpt below.)