“continuation of these studies was requested, and this has been approved by the NIH.”
These are analogous to smoking-gun evidence.
#crimesagainsthumanity
The emails suggest the officials were concerned about previous U.S. involvement with the lab, and that they had knowledge of public statements made by the Wuhan lab’s director about U.S. funding being used for controversial research conducted there.
Fauci Team Scrambled in January 2020 to Respond to Lab Leak Allegations, Emails Show
The experiment cited in the Science article was more fully detailed in a Nov. 9, 2015, article in the journal Nature about gain-of-function experiments—a process whereby viruses are deliberately made more virulent in order to predict emerging diseases—that were being conducted at the Wuhan lab using “chimeric viruses” in mice.