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Sen. Marco Rubio: If Biden believes in science, he must fire Fauci
By U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL)
June 5, 2021
Fox News

It will be decades before we know the true cost of the coronavirus pandemic. The virus killed millions across the globe, forced countless small businesses closed, and made billions of people prisoners in their homes. But the impact on our children and long-term health effects won’t be known for some time. 

No effort should be spared to understand COVID-19’s origins. We cannot ignore common-sense possibilities just because they’re inconvenient for one political party or one nation. 

It was never “conspiratorial” to suggest that the first human infection of the coronavirus could have resulted from a laboratory accident.

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Some scientists were cautious to remain open to a range of possibilities, but others, like Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, dismissed the idea that the virus could have come from a lab…

In most science-based jobs, that would be a fireable offense, but Fauci ran free without any accountability… 

When asked recently why he had dismissed the lab leak hypothesis given what we knew about the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), Fauci replied, “I didn’t dismiss anything.” 

That’s an outright lie. In a May 2020 interview, with National Geographic he scoffed at the suggestion that “scientists found the virus outside the lab, brought it back, and then it escaped,” adding that “[the virus] was in the wild to begin with. That’s why I don’t get what they’re talking about [and] why I don’t spend a lot of time going in on this circular argument.” 

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The lab leak argument is not “circular,” and it presents a plausible answer to a puzzling question: If this virus came from bats, how did bats living in Yunnan more than 1,100 miles away manage to infect humans in Wuhan? 

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WIV researchers traveled to Yunnan many times to study bat coronaviruses.  It is only reasonable to ask whether they transported bats, or samples from bats, back to Wuhan and accidentally infected themselves. 

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Such a possibility offers potential reasons for why unelected bureaucrats in our scientific establishment immediately worked to discredit the lab leak explanation. 

Dr. Fauci has now infamously denied that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded gain-of-function research at the WIV, but that was a lie by omission.

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Fauci is exploiting his position in government — and his ill-deserved positive reputation in the liberal media — to willfully misrepresent what is meant by a lab leak, conflating it with a biological weapons program (which is just one possible motive for gain-of-function research in Wuhan). That, or he’s showing his age.

Our work to shed light on COVID-19’s origins has just begun, but one thing is clear: Dr. Anthony Fauci has repeatedly demonstrated a history of moving goal-posts when it comes to public health, withholding facts that don’t conform with his own narrative, and issuing inappropriate personal judgments that distort the truth. 

During the campaign, Biden said, “I’ll choose science over fiction.” 

Now is his chance to make good on that promise and fire Dr. Fauci.  

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