dr. fauci told us nothing about the lab, the leaked emails. this is against the backdrop of fauci knowing that u.s. scientists had raised concerns for years. he was emailing about it but he didn t divulge that information to an administration that deserved his transparency. you talk about gauging his reactions. final point real quick, the response dr. fauci made to the head of the nih, having a subject line that said conspiracy theory takes off with an article connected to those of us asking questions it was rejected. it remains to be seen how the doctor responded. with the wuhan lab theory, they were wrong to dismiss that. and here we are again, looking at the fauci emails harris: go do your job,
ground. that leads us to our current problem with contagion, which is where this started. is it a fair criticism to say that you were dismissive of the lab theory early on and that now you are more open to it, and if it is fair, why did you change? it s not entirely fair, chris. you know, when this virus first emerged, all of us at nih were deeply engaged in studying its genome, its letters and its sequence, to try to understand what its connection was with previous viruses. we could see it was a bat virus, it looked a lot like one that had been found in a cave in china seven or eight years earlier. but it had a lot of differences. then the theory began to be put forward, maybe it s human engineered, maybe it s an intention bioweapon that has been put together with the intention of killing people. that theory really didn t hold up. you could look at the letters of the rna code and say, no human would have come up with this. that was rather widely spread. the idea that it might have b
and fauci s emphasis on the lab theory comes as dr. biden dials up pressure to get information on the origin. researchers in a lab in china got sick enough to be hospitalized back in november 2019. vanity share report tracks how conflicts of funding hampered the origin with some officials worried that even asking questions may draw attention to the united states links to that lab or open a can of worms that they just didn t want politically. this is one piece of what we are seeing as a wider information break down, which includes some of the media, by the way, because the lab theory political skepticism by some worry that it would feed into donald trump s attacking china. but that is exactly the very kind of thing that could hobble an open mind in science. nowadays in this current moment,
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supply and all kinds of other things that happen when we start to have these problems with, you know, ppe and production of pharmaceuticals and all kinds of other reasons the u.s. could beat ourselves up on a number of fronts. i want to ask about why this lab leak theory, in your opinion, is finally getting different handling by the media. the wall street journal in an opinion said on one basis was the left there he ruled out for months by the media despite the lack of any evidence or logic for rolling it out. we in the press dismissed the lab theory because of an appeal to authority by the way, when anti-donald trump spokespeople ridiculed it, that was good enough for us. do you think that s why the scientific community was so quick to turn from that as a possibility? you know, shannon, i think the onus is on washington, d.c. republicans, democrats, and everyone, to take on china. and it s just like my team did when i was under secretary of state and we beat the ccp master