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The Wuhan Lab Leak and the Greens’ Favored Pandemic Story Line

June 2, 2021
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Commentary President Biden’s decision to order the intelligence community to report on the origins of the virus that caused the Covid-19 pandemic means that the lab-escape scenario can no longer be dismissed as a conspiracy theory. The longer that investigations failed to find evidence of the politically favored zoonotic-transmission route, the stronger became the lab-escape scenario as…

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Senate Adopts GOP Amendment Banning US Funding of China’s Gain-of-Function Cell Research

May 26, 2021
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An amendment to the Endless Frontier Act being debated by the U.S. Senate to ban the use of U.S. tax dollars to fund “gain-of-function” research in China was adopted by the chamber on a voice vote on May 25. The amendment was introduced by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and co-sponsored by Republicans Ron Johnson of…

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Dr. Fauci Makes the Case for Investigation of Wuhan Lab

May 26, 2021
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Commentary Dr. Anthony Fauci recently told reporters he is “not convinced” that COVID-19 developed naturally. Then on Monday, the chief White House medical advisor contended it was “highly likely” that the virus “occurred naturally before spreading from animal to human.” In similar style on March 28, Fauci told Margaret Brennan of CBS News that “there…

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