According to congressional investigators, eminent scientists have stated that they assisted Dr. Anthony Fauci in disguising his involvement in the Covid lab leak.

The experts said that they supported Fauci because of “political” pressure to the Republican-led Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.

The panel has discovered that Fauci “employed fatally flawed science” with the assistance of Francis Collins, the former director of the National Institutes of Health, and a group of receptive virologists to “avoid blaming China for the COVID-19 pandemic.”

The panel reported that it has already received more than 8,000 pages of papers and more than 25 hours of testimony from those who were part in the significant March 2020 study titled “The Proximal Origins of SARS-CoV-2.“

The research, which was printed in the esteemed journal Nature, was essential in dispelling claims that Covid had leaked information from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology.

The paper’s four official authors, Kristian Andersen, W. Ian Lipkin, Edward Holmes, and Robert Garry, privately discussed the possibility that the natural-origins theory was implausible but came to the dogmatically certain conclusion that “We do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci, then-director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who handled the funding of coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, was not mentioned by the authors in the publication’s ethics declarations as having commissioned and edited the work.

However, it has since been established by Congressional investigators that Fauci did commission and alter the study.

Around the time the paper was released, Fauci also handed the researchers sizable funds.

The fact that Fauci regularly mentioned this article on a national scale makes this even more problematic.

Even from the White House stage, he cited it to support the chosen zoonotic origins explanation that he and Collins had put forth.

On Monday, the panel released further incriminating communications between the authors of the report. .

“This is one of the single most impactful and influential scientific papers in history … express[ing] conclusions that were not based on sound science nor in fact, but instead on assumptions,” the subcommittee noted.

The subcommittee concluded that this is “the anatomy of a cover-up.”

The correspondence suggests that those who worked tirelessly to establish the narrative that Covid was not an unintentional byproduct of a leak at the Chinese lab where risky experiments on coronaviruses were conducted were aware of their cause—”political”—and did not want to endanger “international harmony.”

The subcommittee highlighted Monday how Rambaut, communicating with his coauthors over a private Slack channel on Feb. 2, 2020, wrote:

“Given the sh** show that would happen if anyone serious accused the Chinese of even accidental release, my feeling is we should say that given there is no evidence of a specifically engineered virus, we cannot possibly distinguish between natural evolution and escape so we are content with ascribing it to natural processes.”

In reply to Rambaut’s suggestion that they run a smoke screen for a regime that may be responsible for the manufacture and spread of a pathogen that killed millions worldwide, Andersen said, “Yup, I totally agree that that’s a very reasonable conclusion.

“Although I hate when politics is injected into science – but it’s impossible not to, especially given the circumstances.

“We should be sensitive to that.”

Another email from Ron Fouchier, one of the scientists who participated in the conference call with Fauci and the paper’s potential authors on February 1, 2020, was made public by the subcommittee.

In the communication, Fouchier also voiced worry about the pandemic’s potential consequences for China.

Fouchier claimed, “An accusation that nCoV-2019 might have been engineered and released into the environment by humans (accidental or intentional) would … do unnecessary harm to science in general and science in China in particular.”

Collins, also on the conference call, intimated in a Feb. 2, 2020, email that a united front behind the natural-origin theory “is needed, or the voices of conspiracy will quickly dominate, doing great potential harm to science and international harmony.”

The NIH under Collins long provided federal funds to EcoHealth Alliance.

The organization is run by fellow lab-leak theory denier British zoologist Peter Daszak.

Ben Hu, a subcontractor for EcoHealth who oversaw gain-of-function studies on coronaviruses similar to SARS at the Wuhan facility, was one among the three researchers that contracted COVID-19 for the first time there in November 2019.

The subcommittee identified two possible motives behind the apparent efforts to downplay the lab-leak theory: The virologists either wanted to “defend China and play diplomat” or “lessen the likelihood of increased biosafety and laboratory regulations.”

The subcommittee made no mention of the likelihood that members in Fauci’s circle may have similarly sought to downplay any potential joint responsibility between Chinese communists and Western medical administrative state actors for the deaths of millions of people.

SOURCES: Nature.com study, Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic report.