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“FIVE FREEDOMS” – CITIZENS’ CORNER: Censored evidence about Dr Ralph Baric’s Gain of Function research and his NIH/NIAID Funding:

July 23, 2021 • by Dr Naomi Wolf

 

“I was deplatformed from Twitter after posting a video of Dr Ralph Baric’s CV, which shows millions in funding from NIH/ NIAID and also shows what appears to be Gain of Function research. The following links and excerpts provide additional evidence that Dr Baric may well have been doing Gain of Function research — indeed, here in the US in North Carolina — and the links show that that NIH and NIAID officials presented at a conference on Gain of Function research AFTER the 2014 “pause” on Gain of Function research. Readers should assess the evidence below in light of the current news story about Sen Rand Paul stating that Dr Fauci HAD funded “Gain of function” research, and Dr Fauci stating that that was a lie.” 

 

1. “University of North Carolina virologist Ralph Baric collaborated with Shi Zhengli on a gain-of-function

Coronavirus experiment in 2015. In February 2020, he privately expressed support for Peter Daszak’s Lancet

statement dismissing the lab-leak theory. More recently, he signed a letter calling for a transparent

investigation of all hypotheses.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-inside-the-fight-to-uncover-covid-19s-origins

  1. Nature.com article about Dr Baric’s generation and characterization of a ‘chimeric virus’ that was replicated

in mouse lung with ‘notable pathogenesis’:

https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985

‘Here we examine the disease potential of a SARS-like virus, SHC014-CoV, which is currently circulating in

Chinese horseshoe bat populations1. Using the SARS-CoV reverse genetics system2, we generated and

characterized a chimeric virus expressing the spike of bat coronavirus SHC014 in a mouse-adapted

SARS-CoV backbone. The results indicate that group 2b viruses encoding the SHC014 spike in a wild-type

backbone can efficiently use multiple orthologs of the SARS receptor human angiotensin converting

enzyme II (ACE2), replicate efficiently in primary human airway cells and achieve in vitro titers equivalent to

epidemic strains of SARS-CoV. Additionally, in vivo experiments demonstrate replication of the chimeric virus

in mouse lung with notable pathogenesis.’

Dr Shi Zheng-Li, or ‘Bat Lady’, is listed at the end of that article under Dr Baric’s  ‘Affiliations’: 

‘Key

Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences,

Wuhan, China
Xing-Yi Ge & Zhengli-Li Shi’

  1. MIT Technology Review article shows that Dr Baric’s research — what he called ‘the risk of creating more

dangerous pathogens’ – (which is one definition of Gain of Function research) might be seen, as he put it,

by  ‘scientific review panels’ as ‘too risky to pursue’:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/29/1027290/gain-of-function-risky-bat-virus-engineering-links-america-to-wuhan/amp/

From the MIT Technology Review:
“His [Dr Baric’s] 2015 paper, “A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human

emergence,” was a tour de force, utilizing bleeding-edge genetic technology to alert the civilized world to a

looming danger on its periphery. It also revived concerns about gain-of-function experiments, which Baric had

known it would. In the paper, he spelled out the extra precautions he’d taken and held up the research as a

test case. “The potential to prepare for and mitigate future outbreaks must be weighed against the risk of

creating more dangerous pathogens,” he wrote. “Scientific review panels may deem similar studies building

chimeric viruses based on circulating strains too risky to pursue.”

The NIH decided the risk was worth it. In a potentially fateful decision, it funded work similar to Baric’s at the

Wuhan Institute of Virology, which soon used its own reverse-genetics technology to make numerous

coronavirus chimeras.”

A National Academy of Sciences book about a ‘Gain of Function’ research workshop at which a representative

of NIH/NIAID and Dr Baric presented: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK285579. This discussion

shows concern among the scientists aboit both risks and optics of ‘GoF’ research.

 

  1. A ten million dollar NIH grant for Dr Baric’s research:https://sph.unc.edu/sph-news/baric-to-lead-10-million-nih-grant/

    5. NIH funding for Dr Baric’s SARS bat coronavirus research:
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4797993/

    6. Dr Baric’s lab associate Dr Eric Donaldson’s CV:

    https://sph.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/112/2016/03/710272645_cv1.pdf

    “RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
    1. Research Assistant Professor
    I am currently employed as a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, working in

the lab of Dr. Ralph Baric. I am funded by the NIAID to conduct a study looking at the viruses in bats and

studying how viruses cross the species barrier to emerge into new populations. In addition, I am working

with Dr. Baric to resurrect bat coronaviruses to determine the cross species transmission potential of a

variety of novel coronaviruses identified in bats.”

  1. Also from the Donaldson CV:“b. An R01 grant to the National Institutes of Health
    Proposal type R01 PI: Donaldson 07/01/11 – 06/30/16 NIH $1,850,000 25% FTE
    Cross species emergence of coronaviruses from bats
    This work builds upon our ARRA grant, which allowed us to discover a novel Coronavirus in bats that is

closely related to a human pathogen, human Coronavirus 229E. The major goals of the proposal are to

characterize the coronaviruses found in bat species in the northeastern United States, by sequencing several

bat fecal samples to determine the complete genomic sequences, isolate and/or synthetically resurrect these

coronaviruses using in silico biology, and assess the ability of these viruses to emerge into the human host

by using orthologous receptors and homologous innate immune factors such as interferon antagonists.’

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