{"id":1463,"date":"2024-01-16T22:39:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T03:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worthyinsights.com\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2024-01-16T22:39:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T03:39:40","slug":"faucis-former-boss-says-covid-lab-leak-theory-was-not-a-conspiracy-after-calling-it-distraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worthyinsights.com\/faucis-former-boss-says-covid-lab-leak-theory-was-not-a-conspiracy-after-calling-it-distraction\/","title":{"rendered":"Fauci&#8217;s former boss says COVID lab leak theory was not a conspiracy after calling it &#8216;distraction&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/worthyinsights.com\" title=\"christian blog\" style=\"text-decoration:none\">Worthy Insights<\/a>) &#8211; Dr. Francis Collins, the former National Institutes of Health director, told a congressional subcommittee on Friday that the coronavirus-lab Wuhan leak theory was not a conspiracy after calling it a &#8220;distraction&#8221; in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dr. Collins agreed with Dr. Fauci\u2019s concession that the COVID-19 lab leak hypothesis is not a conspiracy,&#8221; Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Select Subcommittee on Coronavirus Pandemic, wrote following Collins&#8217; closed-door testimony on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dr. Collins minced words over the definition of gain-of-function research in an effort to hide the NIH\u2019s involvement in funding the dangerous research in Wuhan. This wordplay mimics Dr. Fauci\u2019s profuse defense of his previous Congressional testimony where he claimed the NIH did not fund gain-of-function research in Wuhan,&#8221; Wenstrup also wrote. <span style=\"font-size:14px;\">[ <a href=\"https:\/\/worthylinks.com\/7tw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Source: Just the News (Read More&#8230;)<\/a> ]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Francis Collins, the former National Institutes of Health director, told a congressional subcommittee on Friday that the coronavirus-lab Wuhan leak theory was not a conspiracy after calling it a &#8220;distraction&#8221; in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-worth-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worthyinsights.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worthyinsights.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worthyinsights.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worthyinsights.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worthyinsights.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worthyinsights.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1466,"href":"https:\/\/worthyinsights.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions\/1466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worthyinsights.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worthyinsights.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worthyinsights.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worthyinsights.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}