Fauci described Indian research on ‘man-made Covid’ as outlandish

On 31 January 2020, nine Indian researchers published a paper on biorxiv, an open access online repository, after their request to carry their research paper was rejected by seven prominent medical journals.

These nine researchers had found, to put it in layman’s language, that the Covid-19 virus was “manipulated” and “laboratory made”.

The researchers, who are from IIT Delhi and Acharya Narendra Dev College, University of Delhi, in their report titled “Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-ncov spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag” wrote that they found at least “four insertions” in the spike glycoproteins which are found in the crown like structure of the coronavirus. They stated that these insertions are “not” naturally found in any coronaviruses, while suggesting that the present Covid-19 virus was a “tailor made” virus.

However, they had to withdraw their paper from biorxiv on 2 February after what they attribute to the massive criticism that they faced from many big scientists who described them as “rumour mongering scientists” and “attention seeking scientists” who had arrived at their conclusion without any scientific basis.

In fact, even Dr Anthony Fauci, member of the US Covid-19 task force and Director of the US’ National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), criticized the research paper.

This came to light after the contents of Fauci’s official email were made public by Us-based journalists who had sought access to them through the Freedom of Information ACT (FOIA) (similar to RTI Act in India).

On 2 February 2020, inside 48 hours of the Indian researchers’ paper going online, Fauci, while responding to an email by Collin Francis, who is the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in which he had shared an oped piece published in a science journal on the various origin of Covid 19, said: “The Indian paper is really outlandish.” The email was also marked to Lawrence A. Tabak, Principal Deputy Director of the NIH and Carrie Wolinetz, Director of the Office of Science Policy at the NIH.

On the same day, while responding to an email trail by his office colleagues, who had sought his advice on how to handle a request for response on the Indian research paper by a journalist with AFP, Fauci wrote “Geeeez”.

Courtney Billet, Director, Communications and Government Relations National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, in the same email trail, wrote: “FYI re the paper from the Indian researchers. Talk about trying to put the genie back in the bottle! Yeesh.”

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