You should have done better, sir. You should have done better. Because you didn't, people have suffered.

Oh, no, you weren't. You said in an email, that you tried to withhold, but that we have.

They are blatantly disregarding the law that this body passed, the Senate passed unanimously.

Oh, it's just science. It's the scientific method that happened in lightning speed, and then was used to propagandize, and lie to, and shut down.

It is wrong to censor and lie to the American public. It is wrong to withhold critical information from them.

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I think one of the worst things that happened in the COVID era is that our own government deliberately withheld information from us.

I am not going to get so excited about where COVID happened to come from. What I know is that something very dangerous could come from Gain-of-Function research if it's not properly regulated.

We should not be financing Gain-of-Function research.

If there's a chance, we should do something. I think he's right. If you believe there's a one percent chance, we should do something.

That was actually coming from Nature at the time. We want you to doctor it up and even be more strong, because we are making a political point here.

We should never ever listen to people like that.

They believed it did not come from nature.

This is not scientific debate that they're taking us off the Internet.

That does not sound to me like open-mindedness, and I wonder what you would tell a younger researcher about putting categorical statements into a scientific paper.

This virus showed up immediately, very transmissible in humans as if it had been preadapted in a lab.

The ones that have been vocal about this and talked a lot about have been the DOE, which has more scientists than any other agency in Washington, probably other than NIH. They have concluded that it did come from the lab.

But arguing against that is they tested 90,000-some-odd animals, and there is no animal host that's been found.