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Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) on Tuesday banned U.S. taxpayer funds from going to state-run labs in China after her amendment was unanimously adopted to the “Endless Frontier Act,” which aims to help the United States compete with China in research and development.
AJ Taylor5 days agoLast Updated: May 25, 2021 Today, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), who has been sounding the alarm for over a year about U.S. tax dollars being funneled into China’s state-run Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), successfully banned any additional future U.S. funding from going to China’s state-lab. Ernst’s amendment was adopted, with unanimous support, to the Endless Frontier Act—a bill being considered this week in the Senate that aims to help the U.S. compete with China in research and development. Ernst’s ban on future U.S. funding to the WIV comes after th...
Stanford Broke Funding Laws With Experiment Involving Aborted Babies – Watchdog Group Medical ethics nonprofit alleges Stanford University broke federal law Image Credit: Email A medical ethics nonprofit is alleging that Stanford University broke federal law with a research project involving aborted babies. The White Coat Waste Project — a non-profit organization working to stop “wasteful,” publicly funded animal testing — filed a complaint with the National Institute of Health alleging that Stanford University repeatedly violated federal law by failing to disclose how much taxp...
Suppressing Information Might Work in China, but We Should Not Stand for It | Opinion Newsweek 4/6/2021 © Lucas Schifres/Getty Images The Chinese flag flaps in the wind. It has been over a year since the COVID-19 virus detected in and around Wuhan, China started a pandemic. The exact origins of the virus still remain a mystery. That is not entirely an accident. The virus emerged in one of the world's most closed societies ruled by a ruthless authoritarian regime that has no tolerance for truth or transparency. The recently released World Health Organization (WHO) report on COVID-19's ori...