The world has reached a point of Maximal Bureaucratic Psychopathy in Science, with committees of committees aiming to improve health by giving one human the ability to kill a billion. In 2015, a scientist at Anthony Fauci’s agency considered it “neat” to mix two Monkeypox strains together to create a deadlier virus. The National Institutes of Health’s Institutional Review Board also thought this was a good idea and approved the experiment.
The purpose of this experiment was to combine a deadly, slow-spreading strain of monkey pox with a tamer, fast-spreading strain. This could have created a virus with “the best of both” – an agent with a 15% fatality rate and a reproduction rate of 2.4, making it highly contagious.
A normal person might worry about the state of world affairs if doddery Joe Biden has access to nuclear codes. However, there are countless unnamed, unaccountable individuals who could possess their fingers on similar “bombs,” and they won’t need any codes – just a bad day.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) image of Monkeypox shows the potential threat these experiments pose. The experiment was approved in 2015, but its approval was hidden for nine years. Even when investigators from a House Committee came looking, the project’s approval remained concealed. While NIAID now claims the experiment never happened, they can provide no evidence to support this claim, and the original approval has only recently been reversed.
As long as the system that gave us Covid remains unchanged, it is just a matter of time before another pandemic arises. Four years after the initial lab leak that infected the world, no one has been held accountable or fired for their role in creating and covering up the situation. Fauci continues to deny any connection between his former agency, NIAID, and a biosecurity breach in Wuhan.
Recklessly conducting Gain-of-Function experiments with viruses is like allowing a local university to create nuclear bombs in basements of skyscrapers, except it is even more dangerous. Is there any reason why the National Institutes of Health (NIH) shouldn’t be put in charge of checking its own funding? This raises concerns about the effectiveness of “peer review” in government-strangled science. What if some of those committees were infiltrated by foreign adversaries? That might actually improve things, as Russian spies could leak news of these experiments to the media.
The one positive aspect of this story is knowing that the last pandemic could have been much worse.