The University of Hawai’i at Mānoa’s research team, led by professor Tung Hoang, hopes its findings will help cystic fibrosis patients avoid hospitalizations and increase their life expectancy.
was american money going into this, including those you oversaw. so you did have a role in that. this is coming from people who say you are not being honest on that. what do you say? i ve been completely totally 100% honest about everything. there was some award grant of $125,000 to $130,000 from the nih to do surveillance studies in humans and in bats in china. for somebody to construe that, that that led to covid, anybody who knows about the viruses involved within the auspices of that small nih grant, that it would be impossible for those viruses to turn into covid, even if somebody tried to do it. there s an inappropriate coninflation of things there. then there s the other issue. could there have been a lab leak?
first amendment and if you disagree and want to emphasize your first amendment liberties, you are not allowed to speak the truth. you have to agree with the left and if you don t they will try to cancel you. if you try to talk at all and have a debate they will call you are racist in the mob will attack you. it is scary. it is what barry white is called the digital thunderdome. he will face it if you speak the truth and speak common sense and this is why we ve got to stop it. my colleagues are doing great work working with college students to stand up for people s ability to exercise their first amendment liberties. laura: you guys got to get back into power and take all this running away from these schools. the same thing goes back to what i said in the angle about the collaborators with china. that is another danger. earlier this year and next ohio state professor was sentenced to 37 months in prison for sharing work with china. he admitted he lied on applications, nih grant to
seeing right now. this makes him look untruthful as though he was trying to hide something. keep in mind, gain of function research is not new, united states has been doing it itself. we did put a moratorium on it between 2014 and 2017, because there were actual lab accidents in the united states and there was a lot of ethical concern with gain of function research. however, we still do it. it has to be under very strict rules. john: if i could doctor, we re out of time. put a button on this by saying frances collins of n.i.h. denies this could have anything to do with coronavirus saying bat corey adams is studied under n.i.h. grant are far distant from the covid 2 and could not have caused covid-19 pandemic, any claims to the contrary are demon strably false. more layers of the onion to peel back. thanks for joining us.
regarding experiments that eco health funded at a laboratory in wuhan, china. in that experiment in question, lab might mod fight to mimic the human immune system became sicker when exposed to a certain virus pound in bats. the nih says this was an unexpected result, not something the researchers sat out to do. senator rand paul and other critics insist this amounts to gain of function research where you genetically enhance an organism. nih officials say it s not. either way, it raises questions about activities at the lab. the real question in my mind is not whether it was or wasn t gain of function. it s what was it. what was funded, what was happening in the wuhan lab. that s what we need to get to the bottom of. the nih issued a statement explaining the naturally occurring bat coronaviruses studied under the nih grant are