https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/11/fauci-biden-and-voter-fraud-lloyd-billingsley/
“In an unlikely but conceivable turn of events, what if that scientist becomes infected with the virus, which leads to an outbreak and ultimately triggers a pandemic? Many ask reasonable questions: given the possibility of such a scenario—however remote—should the initial experiments have been performed and/or published in the first place, and what were the processes involved in this decision?”
The writer is Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in “Research on Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Influenza Virus: The Way Forward,” published in 2012. The research in question was “gain of function” (GOF) which according to the National Institutes of Health Office of Science Policy, has “the potential to enhance the pathogenicity or transmissibility of potential pandemic pathogens (PPPs)” and has thus “raised biosafety and biosecurity concerns.”
In his 2012 paper, Dr. Fauci cited the risks of such research being transferred from a “world-class laboratory” to “another scientist who does not have the same training and facilities and is not subject to the same regulations.” Those concerned about GOF risks cannot take the scientific community “at our word” and “nor can we ignore their calls for greater transparency, their concerns about conflicts of interest.” That leaves the crucial question of whether “these experiments should have been performed in the first place.”