This time, an explosive report by US congressional investigators found the NIAID tried to hide plans to conduct gain-of-function research on a lethal strain of the monkeypox virus.
Investigators with the House Committee on Energy and Commerce first learned about the desire to conduct such research after Bernard Moss of the NIAID revealed it to a journalist during an interview with Science Magazine in 2022, prompting an investigation.
Over the course of 17 months, the Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH, and NIAID repeatedly misled the Committee in written and oral communications, denying that the potentially dangerous experiment was proposed and approved.
During the investigation, HHS and the NIH refused to answer questions about the research or provide documents requested by the Committee unless they had already been made public.
The interim report accuses the NIAID of stonewalling and obfuscating Congressional investigations into the potentially lethal monkeypox research, describing the NIAID's deceptive behaviour as "Unacceptable and potentially criminal."
They need to decipher if these dangerous experiments were actually performed by Moss' team at the NIAID - and if not, why did those agencies go to such lengths to mislead the Committee about approval for experiments that never occurred?
The NIAID has not publicly responded to the accusations in the report, but this controversy adds to the ongoing concern over the dishonesty of public health officials who display a blatant disregard for cooperating with oversight investigations.
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-niaid-is-a-repeat-offender/
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