casey is remote<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@botolo86" class="u-url mention">@<span>botolo86</span></a></span> Found something else: The <a href="https://social.freetalklive.com/tags/HeritageFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HeritageFoundation</span></a> is claiming that <a href="https://social.freetalklive.com/tags/EcoHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EcoHealth</span></a> funded <a href="https://social.freetalklive.com/tags/COVID19" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>COVID19</span></a> research at the <a href="https://social.freetalklive.com/tags/WuhanInstituteOfVirology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WuhanInstituteOfVirology</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.heritage.org/public-health/commentary/why-are-feds-still-funding-ecohealth-alliance-when-its-covid-19-role" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">heritage.org/public-health/com</span><span class="invisible">mentary/why-are-feds-still-funding-ecohealth-alliance-when-its-covid-19-role</span></a></p><p>Turns out that as of this August, the <a href="https://social.freetalklive.com/tags/WuhanInstituteOfVirology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WuhanInstituteOfVirology</span></a> is refusing to detail the nature of their <a href="https://social.freetalklive.com/tags/COVID19" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>COVID19</span></a> research, triggering the <a href="https://social.freetalklive.com/tags/NIH" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NIH</span></a> to withdraw part of their grant with <a href="https://social.freetalklive.com/tags/EcoHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EcoHealth</span></a>:</p><p><a href="https://thebulletin.org/2022/08/nih-to-terminate-ecohealth-alliance-grant-after-its-wuhan-partners-refuse-to-deliver-information-on-coronavirus-studies/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thebulletin.org/2022/08/nih-to</span><span class="invisible">-terminate-ecohealth-alliance-grant-after-its-wuhan-partners-refuse-to-deliver-information-on-coronavirus-studies/</span></a></p><p>That article links back to the document retrieved via <a href="https://social.freetalklive.com/tags/FOIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FOIA</span></a> request that I&#39;d linked earlier, and insinuates that <a href="https://social.freetalklive.com/tags/EcoHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EcoHealth</span></a> performed gain of function research (or at least performed experiments that improved the virality of a <a href="https://social.freetalklive.com/tags/coronavirus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>coronavirus</span></a>) without notifying the <a href="https://social.freetalklive.com/tags/NIH" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NIH</span></a>.</p><p>So it could be the case that the <a href="https://social.freetalklive.com/tags/NIH" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NIH</span></a> did fund gain of function research, but was not aware of it.</p><p>Still have more reading to do though, I haven&#39;t read some of the sources I&#39;ve pulled up and I haven&#39;t made any progress in the <a href="https://social.freetalklive.com/tags/WashingtonPost" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WashingtonPost</span></a> article yet (just wanted to verify its claim first before proceeding)</p>