by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D., Childrens Health Defense:
In an interview with investigative journalist Paul D. Thacker, biodefense official Dr. Robert Kadlec alleged that key officials like Dr. Anthony Fauci and virologists who wrote the “Proximal Origin” paper knew COVID-19 likely originated in a lab but used classic “information operations” tactics to protect their careers and funding.
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A leading biodefense official who played a key role in medical and public health preparedness under the Trump administration during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic alleged that current and former government officials, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, have been “misdirecting” the public over the origins of COVID-19.
In an interview with investigative journalist Paul D. Thacker, Dr. Robert Kadlec suggested that Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., former director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other government officials and key virologists have been engaged in “denial and deception” about the virus’ origins.
Kadlec was assistant secretary for preparedness and response when the COVID-19 pandemic began, directing the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR). He later directed a Senate committee that, in October 2022, released an interim report on the pandemic’s origin that strongly favored the “lab-leak theory.”
Separately, Thacker, in a Dec. 22, 2023, post on The Disinformation Chronicle, analyzed new documents released earlier in the month by U.S. Right to Know (USRTK).
According to USRTK, these documents indicate that “American researchers concealed their intention to conduct high-risk coronavirus research in Wuhan under lax safety standards from the Pentagon the year before the COVID-19 pandemic.”
In an interview with The Defender, Thacker said that these documents aren’t, in and of themselves, evidence that COVID-19 emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, but are evidence that those involved with controversial gain-of-function research at that laboratory have been dishonest.
“It’s another example showing that these people are lying,” Thacker said. “And the strongest evidence of a lab accident in Wuhan are all the examples of the researchers lying about what they were doing in Wuhan. That’s the evidence.”
Thacker wrote this was “just the latest example of scientific malfeasance.” In his Dec. 22, 2023 post, Thacker said that such malfeasance was aided by science writers in the media.
“It’s become a pandemic truism that researchers and their pet science writers eventually get caught dissembling when documents take the air out of authoritative statements and convictions underlined with purported scientific and journalistic authority,” he wrote.
Fauci, others involved in ‘information operation’
According to Thacker, “Kadlec has worked to counter biological weapons for an alphabet soup of various agencies” for 30-plus years.
The interim U.S. Senate report that was released under his watch in October 2022 “became a controversial exclusive by ProPublica/Vanity Fair, with a 2700 word editor’s note later added,” Thacker wrote.
According to the report, published Oct. 28, 2022, in ProPublica, “The Wuhan lab at the center of suspicions about the pandemic’s onset was far more troubled than known.”
Criticism then followed from parts of the scientific community, resulting in ProPublica publishing its editor’s note on Nov. 30, 2022, stating that “Scientists, China observers and others questioned the Senate team’s findings and our reporting about them.”
ProPublica’s editors “added additional context” to the story and “also identified two factual errors inconsequential to the premise of the story” which were corrected. Yet, ProPublica maintained, “Our examination affirms that the story, and the totality of reporting it marshals, is sound,” adding:
“It remains clear that in 2019, the WIV [Wuhan Institute of Virology] was addressing serious safety issues while scientists there faced pressure to perform. Risky coronavirus research took place in laboratories that lacked the maximum biocontainment safeguards, according to the interim report. …
“… The possibility that a biosecurity breach at the WIV occurred, and sparked the pandemic, remains plausible.”
According to Thacker, Kadlec — previously “operating mostly in the background” — has now emerged from the bureaucracy to assert that “federal scientists and the virologists they funded have misdirected the public and helped to cover up evidence that the pandemic began in a Wuhan lab — a lab funded with American money.”
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