• Emails released by the House Select Subcommittee on Coronavirus reveal that a colleague of Anthony Fauci was the “author” of a paper aimed at discrediting a “lab leak theory.” ing.
• Fauci’s colleague Jeremy Farrar, now chief scientist at the World Health Organization, took a lead role in drafting the paper, according to one of the authors.
• “Jeremy [an] You should be a great leader and author,” Dr. Robert Garry wrote in an email released by the committee.

An email sent by the authors of a controversial paper on the origins of the coronavirus pandemic suggests a person close to Anthony Fauci believes the content of the report, according to a report released by a House special subcommittee. It is said that it suggests that it had a big influence on the directionality. about the coronavirus pandemic.

paper known as “Proximity Origin” paper The paper, written in March 2020, claimed that the coronavirus was of animal origin and not a man-made virus from a laboratory, and sought to disprove claims that it leaked from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology. Dr. Robert Garry, one of the authors of the paper, wrote in an email: [Farrar] It has been [an] You should be a great reader and author,” said one. report Presented by the minority staff of the subcommittee. (Related: House Republican report says Fauci prompted ‘cover-up’ to ‘disprove’ coronavirus lab leak theory)

Farrar, a British virologist, organized an international conference call with virologists on the origins of the virus that first emerged in parts of China at the end of 2019 on February 1, 2020, according to the commission’s announcement. . majority staff report. In a phone call, Farrar was preoccupied with the perception that the virus emerged from a laboratory, and considered deteriorating relations between the United States and China, rather than purely a matter of science, when determining the origin of the virus. suggested that it should. The report states:

🚨 “must be an author”

What Mr. Garry said about Mr. Farrar’s role in guiding and coordinating the proximal origin@NatureMedicine @Nature @Magda_Skipper Being a ‘ghost author’, I have no choice but to retract the paper

Nature publishes many op-eds on why this is unethical pic.twitter.com/MIljJ5g9CA

— Honest Broker (@RogerPielkeJr) July 11, 2023

“It was clear that people would soon start looking for a scapegoat for what was quickly turning into a global health disaster. ‘,” Farrar said in a majority of staff reports.

“The theme of the scientist trying to become an expert in international relations runs throughout the conception, draft, and publication of Proximal Origin, blaming China and blaming COVID-19 for China’s negligence. It explains why we hesitate to say it might be the result,” the report said. I conclude.

According to most reports, Farrar, who was involved in drafting the Proximity Origins paper, was a colleague of Anthony Fauci, then director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who would lead the U.S. government’s response to the virus. “Jeremy [Farrar] Get all this settings. He certainly contacted Dr. Tony Fauci at the time, and contacted Dr. Fauci, and asked him to call me,” said virologist Dr. Christian Andersen, who testified before the House subcommittee. said according to his opinion. report.

current farah serve As chief scientist of the World Health Organization.

In later testimony detailed by the majority report, Mr. Farrar said Mr. Farrar “prompted us on the idea of ​​seriously considering the origin of the virus and considering writing a paper.” there is The Proximal Origin paper was later downloaded 5.34 million times, making it the fifth most-viewed scientific paper in human history, and was cited by Fauci at a US government briefing in response to the pandemic.

Anderson’s testimony before the subcommittee on Tuesday appeared to retract his allegations, telling the committee:[t]He only suggested that the editing was by Dr. Farrar, who recommended changing the improbable to the improbable, and we did. ” copy of his testimony. The contradiction is “at best very misleading and at worst a flat out lie,” says academic critic Roger Peekle Jr. I have written on Twitter.

The laboratory leak theory was initially Untrustworthy Endorsed by scientific authorities and U.S. government officials, but later FBI and the Department of Energy.

Andersen, Gary, Farrar and Nature Medicine did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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