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https://ussanews.com/News1/2021/07/20/rand-paul-calls-out-fauci-for-lying-to-congress-over-gain-of-function-research-fauci-loses-it/

fauci ouci/Paul exchange transcript is here.

“Knowing that it is a crime to lie to Congress…do you wish to retract your May 11 claim that the NIH never funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan?” Paul asked Fauci after citing numerous scientific articles showing the opposite to be true.

“Senator Paul, I have never lied before the Congress, and I do not retract that statement,” Fauci answered. “This paper was judged by qualified staff up and down the chain as not being gain-of-function.”

When you take an animal virus, and you increase its transmissibility to humans—you’re saying that’s not gain-of-function research?” Paul asked.

Fauci snapped, “That is correct, and Senator Paul, you do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly! And I want to say that officially. You do not know what you are talking about.”

Paul then read the NIH’s own definition of gain-of-function research.

“This is your definition that you guys wrote. It says that ‘scientific research that increases the transmissibility among animals is gain-of-function,’” Paul said. The Wuhan researchers “took animal viruses…then increased their transmissibility to humans. How you can say that is not gain-of-function—it’s a dance, and you’re dancing around this, because you’re trying to obscure responsibility for four million people around the world dying from a pandemic.”

Fauci then appeared to take offense at the notion that the Wuhan lab’s coronavirus research resulted in the COVID-19 pandemic.

“If the point that you are making is that the grant that was funded as a subaward by EcoHealth to Wuhan created SARS-COV-2, that’s where you are getting,” Fauci said, pointing two fingers at Paul before the senator interrupted.

“We don’t know…but all the evidence is pointing that it came from the lab and there will be responsibility for those that funded the lab, including yourself,” Paul said.