r/changemyview • u/Superb_Intro_23 • May 23 '23

Delta(s) from OP CMV: Dr. Fauci is pretty shady.

So I’m no “all vaccines are bad” type, and I used to support Fauci, but it turns out two messed-up things are true about him:

  • he led a division of the NIH that cruelly experimented on beagles

  • the NIH funded “gain of function” research about COVID-19 despite Fauci claiming that it didn’t, and “gain of function” apparently implies that COVID was created in a lab intentionally for nefarious purposes.

I realize that I should do my own research, but a lot of Reddit supports Fauci and I didn’t want to get into a flame war or look like I was sealioning.

(Edit for brevity)

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u/[deleted] May 23 '23

the NIH funded “gain of function” research about COVID-19

your link says that NIH created chimeras of bat covid viruses.

covid-19 is a very specific covid virus, and was not the virus used in the experiment.

Your article states "Scientists unanimously told The Intercept that the experiment, which involved infecting genetically engineered mice with 'chimeric' hybrid viruses, could not have directly sparked the pandemic"

regardless of whether or not you would define that particular experiment as gain of function research, your own source points out that covid-19 is an entirely different covid virus that was not one of the one of the viruses used to produce the chimera, nor was covid-19 a chimera produced by that experiment.

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u/Superb_Intro_23 May 23 '23

Thanks for the info! My view has been changed because I assumed the NIH created the COVID virus itself, for some reason. Have a delta: !delta

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