[American Thinker] Just last week, Senator Rand Paul appeared on Fox News and slammed Anthony Fauci for taking the default position of trying to "cover up" his activities, including potentially encouraging social media companies to censor medical information."I think that all of America should be appalled that America’s doctor, the leading expert on COVID in public health, doesn’t want to divulge information, doesn’t want to divulge his communications with Big Tech," Paul urged, adding that Fauci’s "modus operandi" is to "cover up".
A month before that, Senator Paul spoke after first ever Senate hearing on gain of function research, having revealed that there is a committee that is supposed to oversee such experimentation with potentially lethal viruses, but that it is above the oversight of Congress.
"We don’t know the names. We don’t know that they ever meet, and we don’t have any records of their meetings," the Senator reiterated, adding "It’s top-secret. Congress is not allowed to know. So whether the committee actually exists, we’re uncertain."
"We do know that they’ve met three times and there are thousands of gain-of-function research proposals. They’ve only met three times, they’ve only reviewed three projects," Paul continued.
The Senator added that "When Dr. Fauci said, ’Oh, we’ve reviewed this and the experts have looked at this, and said it’s not gain-of-function,’ even that wasn’t true. There was a committee that was formed after 2017 to look at this dangerous research. They didn’t look at this research at all because they never reviewed it. So no one reviewed this to say it wasn’t gain-of-function research. They didn’t review it, period."
"So we learned a lot of things, but I think we reconfirmed that Dr. Fauci is not being honest with us," Paul urged, adding "Yes, the NIH funded gain-of-function research. Yes, it was dangerous. And yes, nobody looked over this. Nobody reviewed the research. Yes, a million people died. And there still seems to be a significant lack of curiosity on the part of Democrats."Of course, Fauci shrugged this off as just more 'vast-right-wing-conspiracy-theory' or some-such.