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A congressional committee member questioned a USAID representative about whether the agency funded gain-of-function research, presenting a 2015 paper co-authored by the Wuhan Institute of Virology and Dr. Barrick, funded by USAID's PREDICT program through EcoHealth Alliance, as evidence. The paper described creating a novel virus by combining the SARS virus backbone with an s protein from another virus. The committee member cited expert opinions stating this research created a novel virus that grows well in human cells and poses a new risk to humanity. He also mentioned the 2018 DIFUSE project, presented to DARPA and attended by USAID, which proposed creating a coronavirus with a furin cleavage site. He requested the name of the USAID attendee to understand why this project wasn't revealed to the public, especially after COVID-19 emerged. The USAID representative stated the agency had not authorized gain-of-function research and would look into the specific claims and the DARPA meeting. She acknowledged the importance of understanding the past to prevent future risks and assured cooperation with the committee.

The U.S. funded risky coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which involved creating new viruses. Intelligence agencies are investigating whether a virus leak from this lab caused the global pandemic. Anthony Fauci, the top medical adviser to the president, did not mention gain of function research during the pandemic's onset, leaving others to uncover its significance. Gain of function research increases the transmissibility or virulence of pathogens, and despite a U.S. ban in 2014, funding continued to flow to China. Fauci oversaw the NIH when the ban was lifted in 2017. Additionally, NIH funds supported research by Chinese military scientists to genetically manipulate coronaviruses, involving both the Wuhan lab and two American institutions. The Wuhan lab is still authorized for funding, with 26 other labs listed on the NIH's website.

Research on potential pandemic pathogens, known as gain of function studies, has led to valuable public health insights. Previous NSABB reports support this. While I won't argue for the necessity of this research, there are many freely available studies showing how mutations identified through these studies have helped us prepare for epidemics and pandemics.

Gain of function research, which involves making viruses deadlier or more infectious, has sparked controversy amid debates about the origin of the coronavirus pandemic. The research aims to predict and prepare for future pandemics, but it has not yet resulted in any preemptive vaccines or prevented any pandemics. The methods used include genetically modifying pathogens and conducting experiments on animals. Concerns arise from the potential for accidents and the risk of manmade viruses falling into the wrong hands. The Wuhan Institute of Virology has been at the center of scrutiny, with allegations of inadequate safety protocols. The debate highlights the need for international investigation and community involvement in determining the risks and benefits of high-risk research.

Gain-of-function research involves making a virus more pathogenic, virulent, and deadly, then developing a vaccine for it. The rationale for this research is to develop bioweapons and defenses against them. Anthony Fauci received a 68% raise from the military due to new military responsibilities related to this research.

Gain of function research involves making a wild virus more deadly and developing a vaccine for it. Anthony Fauci received a raise for his involvement in this research. In 2014, three deadly bugs escaped from different labs in the US, leading 300 scientists to urge President Obama to shut down Fauci's gain of function research. Although Obama issued a moratorium, Fauci moved the research offshore to avoid oversight. Some projects were moved to Ukraine, Georgia, and a Chinese lab run by the military.

The speaker states that gain-of-function research, which aims to make pathogens more virulent and transmissible, is believed by many scientists to be responsible for the COVID pandemic. They claim this research doesn't protect against pandemics or other nations, but risks accidental leaks that could cause a pandemic. According to the speaker, any nation engaging in this research endangers its population and the world. They say the proclamation will not affect most science, but will address the fraction of research that risks causing a pandemic. The executive order establishes a framework to ensure the public has a say and can reject such risks, preventing scientists alone from making these decisions. The speaker expresses pride in President Trump for signing the order to end this research and establish a regulatory framework to eliminate it.

The speaker discusses the development of vaccines and raises concerns about a specific type of research called gain-of-function. They suggest that this research involves making viruses more dangerous and could potentially be used to create bio weapons. They mention that Anthony Fauci, a prominent figure in the field, received a raise for his involvement in this research. In 2014, three dangerous viruses escaped from labs in the US, leading 300 scientists to urge President Obama to shut down Fauci's gain-of-function research. Although a moratorium was issued, the research was moved offshore, including to a Chinese lab in Wuhan.

A wild virus was engineered to be more pathogenic and deadly, with the intention of developing a vaccine as a defense against potential bioweapons. Anthony Fauci received a significant raise for his military-related responsibilities. In 2014, three dangerous pathogens escaped from U.S. labs, prompting 300 scientists to urge President Obama to halt Fauci's gain-of-function research, fearing it could lead to a global pandemic. Obama imposed a moratorium on 18 projects, but the research was largely moved offshore to evade oversight, including to a Chinese military-run lab in Wuhan.

Scientists are reportedly combining viral and bacterial genetic material, creating something that wouldn't happen in nature. This could lead to the creation of superbugs. While some people might survive due to a resilient microbiome, many could die from these experiments. The justification for these experiments is to see what happens in case it occurs in nature later. However, the experiments are creating the very scenario they are trying to prepare for. The speaker argues that some scientific endeavors, like reproducing a dinosaur, should not be pursued because of potential catastrophic consequences like the dinosaur killing humanity. There is a need for better supervision of scientists and their labs.

In 2014, a gain of function moratorium was implemented in the US due to lab accidents. Despite this, gain of function research continued in China with funding from Dr. Fauci. The NIH lifted the moratorium in 2017 without proper consultation. There are concerns that US-funded research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology may have led to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Ebright believes that lapses in oversight of this research could have caused the pandemic and may lead to future ones.

The speaker discusses gain-of-function research, claiming that the purpose of taking a wild virus and making it more pathogenic is to develop a vaccine for those enhanced viruses, and that the real rationale is to develop bioweapons and then a defense to those bioweapons. They assert that Anthony Fauci received a 68% raise by the military because of these new military responsibilities and continued the work through 2014. The speaker states that in 2014 three of the bugs escaped in high-profile incidents from three different U.S. labs, describing these as really deadly bugs that escaped or were found in unsafe circumstances. They claim that 300 scientists sent a letter to President Obama asking him to shut down Fauci’s gain-of-function research, arguing that it was highly likely to start a global pandemic with this dangerous research. According to the speaker, Obama issued a moratorium and shut down 18 of Fauci’s worst projects, but ultimately did not fully shut them down. Instead, the research was moved offshore to avoid White House scrutiny and the Cambridge Working Group, a group of scientists, as well as other officials. The speaker alleges that the major offshore location for this research included a Chinese lab run by the Chinese military, specifically naming the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, as part of the moved research, with other work relocated to Ukraine and the former Soviet state of Georgia.

Evolution is random, but when a virus evolves naturally, it's through random mutation. However, when a virus is created in a lab, it's not random but man-made. Creating a virus in the lab to discover what could happen in nature is unlikely to result in a vaccine that helps. This controversy started in 2010 with the avian flu, which is deadly but not very contagious. A scientist in the Netherlands aerosolized it, causing a debate on whether the knowledge should be published due to potential misuse. Anthony Fauci supported publishing the knowledge, despite the risks. Government funding of gain of function research, which involves making viruses more dangerous, continued despite a pause from 2014 to '16. The culpability extends beyond Fauci to the government.

Gain of function research involves modifying a pathogen to increase its transmissibility or pathogenicity. This definition includes making a nonpathogen pathogenic. Regarding the Wuhan Institute, there are questions about whether they conducted gain of function research on coronaviruses. Proponents argue it could lead to vaccines or prevent pandemics, but there is skepticism. To date, gain of function research has not produced any life-saving vaccines or therapeutics, nor has it stopped a pandemic. In fact, it may have contributed to the current pandemic. While supporters of this research are well-intentioned, I personally see no tangible benefits from it.

I believe that it is possible that scientific research sponsored in part by the NIH but also lots of other entities including the Chinese government may have been the cause of the pandemic. There's a lot of people who just have fights over this. But I will say is that the kinds of biological exercises people did in order to try to prevent a pandemic, go find viruses in weird bat caves, bring them into city centers, and then augment their capacity to infect humans, The reason why they did that was I think they were arguing that we needed to do that in order to prepare just in case a pandemic happens. But think no matter what you believe about whether the cause of the pandemic was this kind of research, I think everyone can agree that that kind of research is potentially very dangerous.

The executive order addresses gain of function research, a type of biomedical research where pathogens are altered to enhance their potency or change their function. Many believe gain of function research was a key cause of the COVID pandemic. The order provides new tools to enforce federal funding regulations for gain of function research abroad, strengthens oversight mechanisms, and creates a broad strategy to ensure biomedical research is conducted safely to protect human health. It is suggested that implementing these measures earlier could have prevented the problems associated with the pandemic.

Speaker 0 advocates ending all gain-of-function research and aims to sign a treaty to cease such work globally. The goal is to gather nations to agree to end gain-of-function research, asserting it is a disaster and has yielded no benefits. The speaker claims gain-of-function research has produced a range of diseases, listing Lyme disease, COVID, and many others, with RSV cited as now one of the biggest killers of children and described as having originated from a vaccine lab. The speaker asserts a broad list of diseases can be traced back to vaccine research, and suggests there is strong evidence that even the Spanish flu came from facts related to vaccines and vaccine research. They claim medical research and vaccine research have, in their view, created some of the worst plagues in history. The speaker contends that most readers of the River (implied reference) would be convinced that HIV also came from a vaccine program, noting there is plenty of evidence suggesting that, though they stop short of asserting certainty. They state there is very little evidence that gain-of-function has provided any marginal benefits and claim it has caused horrible outcomes—“Gittahashbees” (a mispronunciation or distorted term) is used to describe the risks as simply not worth it. Additionally, the speaker says they will end gain-of-function globally, attempting to sign a treaty to reinstate the Geneva Convention and the biological weapons charter signed in 1973, and to make it verifiable with other nations agreeing to it. The overall message is a call to terminate gain-of-function research, establish an enforceable international treaty, and curb or eliminate the associated risks by aligning with historic international biological norms.

"So I believe that it is possible that scientific research sponsored in part by the NIH but also lots of other entities including the Chinese government may have been the cause of the pandemic." "the kinds of biological exercises people did in order to try to prevent a pandemic, go find viruses in weird bat caves, bring them into city centers, and then augment their capacity to infect humans," "The reason why they did that was I think they were arguing that we needed to do that in order to prepare just in case a pandemic happens." "But think no matter what you believe about whether the cause of the pandemic was this kind of research, I think everyone can agree that that kind of research is potentially very dangerous."

Scientists can learn how to teach the flu virus how to infect human tissue, and some are already doing this. The scientific community isn't trying to cause a pandemic, but they are arrogant about their ability to contain a respiratory pathogen. COVID evolved from scientific experiments in a laboratory that was trying to do good things, like make a vaccine vector, but it escaped, and over 20,000,000 people died. Nature will continue to try to change, but the species barrier for amino acids is pretty high. Some scientists believe gain of function research is needed to protect humanity against emerging pathogens, but they don't consider the fact that they may be emerging them like with COVID.

The executive order provides tools to enforce the ban on federal funding for gain of function research abroad. Gain of function research is a type of biomedical research where pathogens are adulterated to make them more potent or to change the way that they function. Many people believe gain of function research was one of the key causes of the COVID pandemic. The order also strengthens oversight mechanisms and creates a strategy to ensure biomedical research is conducted safely to protect human health. Some people believe that if this had been done earlier, the COVID-19 pandemic may have been avoided.

The speakers claim gain of function research creates dangerous viruses to develop protections against them. They allege that in 2015, a London meeting identified the Wuhan lab as likely to have problems with this research, and that Anthony Fauci was a major supporter of gain of function research for 30 years. One speaker claims gain of function research takes a wild virus and makes it more pathogenic, virulent, and deadly to develop a vaccine, suggesting the rationale is to develop bioweapons and defenses. They allege Fauci received a 68% raise from the military for these responsibilities. They claim that after three lab escapes in 2014, 300 scientists asked President Obama to shut down Fauci's gain of function research, warning it could start a global pandemic. Obama issued a moratorium, but instead of shutting down the research, it was allegedly moved offshore to places like Ukraine, Georgia, and the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which is run by the Chinese military.

There are leaks almost every week in BSL 3 and BSL 4 labs, and no lab is immune. The executive order aims to prevent inadvertent leaks and protect humanity. The COVID outbreak cost twenty million lives and at least $25 trillion. The COVID nightmare was likely preventable, and the leading theory is that it came from the Wuhan Lab, which was five miles from the initial outbreak. The speaker believes the outbreak was the result of scientists manipulating nature in a lab using technology exported from the United States, specifically inserting a furin cleavage site. The speaker hopes the executive order will do some good.

Speaker 1 states that documents were signed to end federal funding and private corporation control of gain of function studies, which he claims the US military and intelligence agencies began in 1947. He says that by 1969, the CIA claimed they could kill the entire US population for 29¢ a person. According to Speaker 1, President Nixon ended this research and persuaded over 80 countries to sign the bioweapons charter in 1973, but US federal officials who violate it cannot be prosecuted. Speaker 1 claims that gain of function research relaunched a bioweapons arms race and that in 2014, three bugs escaped from US labs, leading President Obama to declare a moratorium that moved research offshore to the Wuhan Lab. He asserts that China, Russia, Iran, and other countries are developing devastating weapons using AI and CRISPR technologies. He says that gain-of-function research has never produced anything good, and commends President Trump for ending US bioweapons research.

Gain of function research involves creating dangerous viruses to develop protections against them, but it is inherently risky. In 2015, a meeting in London identified the Wuhan lab as most likely to have problems with this research. Anthony Fauci was allegedly a major supporter of gain of function research for 30 years. Gain of function research involves making viruses more pathogenic and deadly, purportedly to develop vaccines, but it could also be for bioweapons and defenses. Fauci allegedly received a raise for new military responsibilities related to this. In 2014, deadly bugs escaped from multiple US labs, prompting 300 scientists to petition President Obama to halt Fauci's research, warning it could cause a pandemic. Obama issued a moratorium, shutting down some projects, but allegedly moved the research offshore to avoid oversight, including to labs in Ukraine, Georgia, and the Wuhan Institute of Virology, run by the Chinese military.

I will end all gain of function research. I will sign a treaty to end gain of function research and get all nations to agree. It's a disaster that's given us no benefits, only diseases like Lyme, COVID, and RSV, which is now killing children. There's evidence that even Spanish Flu came from vaccine research. Medical and vaccine research has created some of the worst plagues in our history. Anyone who reads "The River" will be convinced that HIV came from a vaccine program. There's very little evidence that gain of function has given us any benefits, and it's given us horrible catastrophes. The risks simply aren't worth it. I will try to end it globally and reinstate the Geneva Convention and the biological weapons charter that we signed in 1973, and make it verifiable.