Rupar evolving from naked partisan flacking to straight up fake news.

The reporter might work for Newsmax but she says nothing that isn& #39;t widely-reported basic fact. Rupar goes farther than the admin itself in reflexively calling the lab leak hypothesis a "conspiracy theory." https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1390725903714508800">https://twitter.com/atrupar/s...
Which part is a conspiracy theory? That NIH funded bat coronavirus research done in conjunction with the Wuhan Institute of Virology? Here& #39;s a report affirming that from that crazy right-wing MAGA fringe conspiracy outlet, National Public Radio. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/08/29/907237520/group-whose-nih-grant-for-virus-research-was-revoked-just-got-a-new-grant">https://www.npr.org/sections/...
Here& #39;s more confirmation from...an article expressly devoted to *debunking* the lab leak hypothesis as a "conspiracy theory." https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/politifact/2021/02/09/covid-dr-anthony-fauci-did-not-fund-research-tied-creation/4450338001/">https://www.statesman.com/story/new...
Or is the conspiracy that Fauci was a proponent of gain-of-function research? Here& #39;s a page from NIH& #39;s own website, with the program of a conference on gain-of-function research. One of the presenters was...Dr. Anthony Fauci. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/videos/gain-function-research-hpai-h5n1-viruses-welcome-introductory-remarks">https://www.nih.gov/news-even...
Here& #39;s video of Fauci at a conference on gain-of-function research. He refers to NIH& #39;s decades of work on influenza viruses and says that "integral to that study has always been the issue of gain-of-function research." (20:21) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BACqqgRpktA">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Here& #39;s the slide he shows when he says it. In case you& #39;re unfamiliar with gain-of-function research, he spells it out: it& #39;s when scientists "create such mutations" as would make a naturally occurring virus more transmissible or more deadly.
Here& #39;s the NIH describing gain-of-function research, specifically in relation to the NIH& #39;s work on SARS and MERS coronaviruses.
I could go on and on like this — this stuff isn& #39;t hard to find, it& #39;s just a google search away. But why research it yourself when you can rely on Aaron Rupar and Vox dot com to just tell you what you need to know: that it& #39;s a cONsPiRaCy ThEOrY concocted by QAnon lunatics?
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