Confirmation Bias: the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms or supports one’s prior beliefs or values.
In the case of Dr. Anthony Fauci, he was looking to dispel the notion that COVID-19 originated in a virology lab in Wuhan, China —and he achieved that goal.
According to new information released by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, Fauci ordered, edited, and gave final signoff on the now-infamous paper titled The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2 —the “scientific” research paper that showed the coronavirus had “mutations” that were “consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human.”
On April 17, 2020 Fauci, then the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, cited Proximal Origins while speaking with reporters to distract attention away from a discussion around a potential lab leak in Wuhan.
The paper was from “a group of highly qualified evolutionary virologists,” Fauci told reporters, adding “the paper will be available. I don’t have the authors right now, but we can make it available to you.”
We now know the paper was completely manufactured by Fauci.
According to The New York Post, “One of the paper’s co-authors, Dr. Kristian Andersen, said Fauci was one of several big scientific names who ‘prompted’ him to write the study to debunk the lab leak theory, according to a cover email submitted with the article to Nature Medicine on Feb. 12, 2020.”
But Andersen shouldn’t have been prompted to debunk the lab leak theory —he should have been prompted to find the true origins of the COVID-19 virus. He went began a “scientific” research paper with a goal.
Confirmation bias.
“There has been a lot of speculation, fear-mongering, and conspiracies put forward in this space. [This paper was] prompted by … Tony Fauci, and [then-National Institutes of Health Director Dr.] Francis Collins,” Andersen wrote.
“Sunday’s email release by the GOP-controlled House committee calls into question repeated statements made by Fauci to members of Congress during the pandemic — especially regarding the NIH funding of gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” NYP continues.
“In a high-profile clash during a July 2021 hearing, Fauci told Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) that ‘you do not know what you’re talking about, quite frankly,’ when asked about his involvement with the research,” NYP adds.
With a lab leak moving from fringe to forefront, it sounds like Dr. Fauci, quite frankly, didn’t know what he was talking about.
Or, a scarier thought, he did know what he was talking about —a cover-up.
