{"id":2272240,"date":"2024-06-20T06:50:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T10:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scientist-who-pushed-to-discredit-lab-leak-theory-received-millions-in-nih-grants-2\/"},"modified":"2024-06-20T06:53:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T10:53:51","slug":"scientist-who-pushed-to-discredit-lab-leak-theory-received-millions-in-nih-grants-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scientist-who-pushed-to-discredit-lab-leak-theory-received-millions-in-nih-grants-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientist Who Opposed Lab-Leak Theory Got Millions in NIH Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fscientist-who-pushed-to-discredit-lab-leak-theory-received-millions-in-nih-grants-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2272240&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>During a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing, Senator Ron Johnson questioned Robert Garry, a professor\u2062 at Tulane Medical School, about his involvement in efforts \u2064to discredit the Covid-19 lab-leak \u2063theory and his receipt of millions in NIH grants. \u2062Garry, co-author of a 2020 article in \u200dNature Medicine, argued against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-said-he-would-press-china-on-the-origins-of-covid-he-hasnt\/\" title=\"Biden Said He Would Press China on the Origins of COVID. He Hasn\u2019t.\">lab-leak theory<\/a>\u200b citing scientific evidence\u200d contrary to such claims. However, another\u200c scientist, Richard H. \u200cEbright, \u200baccused Garry of scientific misconduct, asserting that \u200bGarry and his colleagues presented \u200cconclusions they knew\u200c were untrue. Senator Josh Hawley criticized the article for contributing to the censorship and professional harm of those who supported the lab-leak theory. Garry defended his work, claiming it represented his honest scientific opinion on the virus&#8217;s origins.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Senators grilled a scientist involved in efforts to discredit the Covid-19 lab-leak theory for receiving millions in National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing this week.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Garry, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and Associate Dean for Biomedical Sciences at Tulane Medical School, co-authored an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41591-020-0820-9#Sec8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a> in 2020 that was cited thousands of times in research articles and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2024\/06\/18\/josh-hawley-confronts-scientist-engaging-propaganda-effort-cast-doubt-covid-19-lab-leak-theory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">news outlets<\/a> to shut down and censor proponents of the so-called lab-leak theory. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1551279463\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-2ddadba2a9683fc88f3e6989d16381a4 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-2ddadba2a9683fc88f3e6989d16381a4\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThere is no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/memo-reveals-state-department-assessed-in-early-2020-that-lab-leak-was-most-likely-origin-of-covid\/\" title=\"Memo Reveals State Department Assessed in Early 2020 That Lab Leak Was Most Likely Origin of COVID\">lab leak scenario<\/a> that can accommodate all the available scientific evidence,\u201d Garry stated in the article published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41591-020-0820-9#Sec8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Nature Medicine<\/em><\/a>. Co-author Kristian Andersen, professor in the Department of Immunology and Microbiology at Scripps Research, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/07\/11\/newly-released-docs-scientists-seemingly-admit-covid-origins-paper-cover-china-play-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote in a February 2020 email<\/a> that they were \u201cfocused on disproving any type of lab theory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., pressed Garry, asking, \u201cHow much have you received from government grants in your career?\u201d Garry claimed he did not know. \u201cI have information that between you and Dr. Kristian Andersen between 2020 and 2022 you received $25.2 million in grants from the NIH,\u201d Johnson continued. Garry admitted \u201cthat\u2019s possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richard H. Ebright, another witness at the hearing and Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University, accused Garry of scientific misconduct. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe misconduct of highest importance was stating conclusions the authors knew at the time were untrue,\u201d said Ebright. \u201cThis is the most egregious form of scientific misconduct.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1f0f3741a225d91c6bebb455740123f9 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1f0f3741a225d91c6bebb455740123f9\"><\/div>\n<p>Garry said he did not intend to mislead people and was simply using the scientific evidence to form his conclusions at the time. Because of the paper, however, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said innocent people were ridiculed for raising questions, often at great professional detriment.<\/p>\n<p>Hawley asked, \u201cDo you regret being part of this propaganda effort?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was simply writing a paper about our scientific opinions about where this virus came from,\u201d Garry said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <span class=\"ofKu9rCIvSnBM8GHOb3QZsTgt071x2FjRU\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Scientists who were part of Biden\u2019s COVID propaganda cabal keep trying to deflect blame for their actions.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the truth: Biden used their propaganda papers to censor scientists &#038; anyone else who said COVID came from a lab. Sickening abuse of power <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mfY8cOaDS8\">pic.twitter.com\/mfY8cOaDS8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HawleyMO\/status\/1803097355857629484?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 18, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe reason why the American public does not trust scientists and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-dodges-question-on-teachers-safely-returning-back-to-schools\/\" title=\"Harris dodges question on teachers safely returning back to schools\">federal health agencies<\/a> is because of people like you,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cYou violated the public\u2019s trust.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-3a82e803095c8455cc70e641c572cf66 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-3a82e803095c8455cc70e641c572cf66\"><\/div>\n<p>Throughout his career, Garry has received approximately $60 million in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/artificial-intelligence-is-mostly-just-a-left-wing-narrative-device\/\" title=\"AI is a left-wing narrative tool.\">government research funding<\/a> and owns a vaccine company, which Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., argued represents a \u201cconflict of interest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since the start of the pandemic, the lab-leak theory has been a controversial topic in Washington, largely due to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/09\/12\/highly-credible-whistleblower-cia-offered-six-analysts-hush-money-to-shut-them-up-about-covid-lab-leak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">government agencies<\/a> and academic figures coordinating to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scientist-who-pushed-to-discredit-lab-leak-theory-received-millions-in-nih-grants\/\" title=\"Scientist Who Opposed Lab Leak Theory Secured Millions in NIH Funding\">suppress evidence suggesting<\/a> the virus was a product of Chinese experimentation, potentially funded by US tax dollars, and not a natural phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-64806903\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FBI<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/02\/28\/1160157977\/u-s-dept-of-energy-says-with-low-confidence-that-covid-may-have-leaked-from-a-la\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Energy Department<\/a> have since stated there is strong evidence supporting the plausibility of the lab-leak theory.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-606df62b27b1ebf0d64a0c46f695cf56 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-606df62b27b1ebf0d64a0c46f695cf56\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing, senators questioned scientist Robert Garry about receiving millions in NIH grants while discrediting the Covid-19 lab-leak theory. Garry, a Tulane Medical School Professor and Associate Dean, co-authored a 2020 article opposing the theory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3178,"featured_media":2272241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-19-at-2.10.22%E2%80%AFPM.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2272240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-19-at-2.10.22%E2%80%AFPM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2272240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2272241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2272240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2272240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2272240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}