Dr. Anthony Fauci in 2021 dismissed concerns that U.S.-funded Chinese scientists lied about performing risky gain-of-function research, calling those scientists “competent” and “trustworthy.” But a publicly disclosed grant shows Fauci’s own agency was simultaneously funding ethics training for Chinese scientists over widespread “research misconduct.”

Fauci’s National Institutes of Health in 2019 launched a $300,000 grant to “strengthen research integrity” at China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention and two other major Chinese research institutions. Troubling instances of “research misconduct,” “inadequate ethical review,” and “publication fraud” at the institutions, the agency wrote in its grant description, “have had a negative impact on Chinese scientists and their U.S. collaborators” and “highlighted China’s underdeveloped research ethics capacity and infrastructure,” prompting the need for ethics and integrity training.

The agency’s concerns contradict Fauci’s own comments to Congress in 2021.

[This points to a concerted effort by Fauci to cover up the dangers he created — and Francis Collins too — in greenlighting gain-of-function research, particularly in China and even more particularly in Wuhan. That funding helped unleash a global pandemic with deaths in the millions, and both Fauci and Collins have been covering up just how much they knew about the risks ever since. — Ed]