{"id":67772,"date":"2024-04-30T15:18:11","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T20:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67772"},"modified":"2024-04-30T15:18:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T20:18:11","slug":"exclusive-new-documents-expose-how-nih-misled-the-public-about-dangerous-virus-research-at-the-wuhan-institute-of-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67772","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: New Documents Expose How NIH Misled the Public About Dangerous Virus Research at the Wuhan Institute of Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-header\">\n<h3 class=\"post-title unpublished\"><a href=\"https:\/\/disinformationchronicle.substack.com\/p\/new-documents-further-expose-how\">EXCLUSIVE: New Documents Expose How NIH Misled the Public About Dangerous Virus Research at the Wuhan Institute of Technology<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"subtitle\"><strong>The NIH has ceased any pretense of overseeing risky virus research and now coordinates with Peter Daszak\u2019s EcoHealth Alliance on public relations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"available-content\">\n<div class=\"body markup\" dir=\"auto\">\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure>\n<div class=\"image2-inset\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9b46ea31-ea93-4d10-91a2-9bbd055b72af_768x768.jpeg 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9b46ea31-ea93-4d10-91a2-9bbd055b72af_768x768.jpeg 848w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9b46ea31-ea93-4d10-91a2-9bbd055b72af_768x768.jpeg 1272w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9b46ea31-ea93-4d10-91a2-9bbd055b72af_768x768.jpeg 1456w\" type=\"image\/webp\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"sizing-normal\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9b46ea31-ea93-4d10-91a2-9bbd055b72af_768x768.jpeg\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9b46ea31-ea93-4d10-91a2-9bbd055b72af_768x768.jpeg 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9b46ea31-ea93-4d10-91a2-9bbd055b72af_768x768.jpeg 848w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9b46ea31-ea93-4d10-91a2-9bbd055b72af_768x768.jpeg 1272w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9b46ea31-ea93-4d10-91a2-9bbd055b72af_768x768.jpeg 1456w\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"768\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/9b46ea31-ea93-4d10-91a2-9bbd055b72af_768x768.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:768,&quot;width&quot;:768,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:187435,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null}\" \/><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>A new set of documents raise further questions about statements made by the National Institutes of Health regarding papers showing they funded risky virus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology to create dangerous chimeric viruses.<\/p>\n<p>EcoHealth Alliance president Peter Daszak notified NIH funders that EcoHealth Health Alliance planned to conduct risky virus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), in a June 2016 letter, many months before a pause on such research was lifted in 2017. When the NIH released some of this information in 2021, they assured Congress and the public that these chimeric virus studies could not have led to the COVID virus, but they did so in a public statement that cited research the NIH itself had funded at the WIV.<\/p>\n<p>The documents also show that, after once making a pretense of overseeing EcoHealth Alliance\u2019s grants, the NIH is now happy to coordinate messaging with Peter Daszak\u2019s nonprofit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease pass this information on to the people at NIAID who need to coordinate communications,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/24604718-nih-and-ecohealth-alliance-coordinate-on-messaging\" rel=\"\">Daszak wrote to NIH official<\/a>\u00a0Erik Stemmy, attaching a draft of a May 2023 press release. \u201cAnd I&#8217;m available this evening, all day Friday and any time over the weekend to discuss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 611 pages of new documents were provided to The DisInformation Chronicle by the whistleblower nonprofit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/empowr.us\/\" rel=\"\">Empower Oversight<\/a>, which has sued the NIH to gain access to public records. Neither NIH spokeswoman Renate Myles nor EcoHealth Alliance\u2019s Peter Daszak returned numerous requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE: New Documents Expose How NIH Misled the Public About Dangerous Virus Research at the Wuhan Institute of Technology The NIH has ceased any pretense of overseeing risky virus research and now coordinates with Peter Daszak\u2019s EcoHealth Alliance on public relations. A new set of documents raise further questions about statements made by the National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34449,34205,2864,34204,655],"class_list":["post-67772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-covid-pandemic","tag-disinformation-chronicle","tag-lies","tag-paul-d-thacker","tag-propaganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67773,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67772\/revisions\/67773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}