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    Victor Davis Hanson: What Fauci Was Writing While America Lived in Fear
    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of Thursday’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. This episode was recorded before Dr. Anthony Fauci’s appearance on Wednesday at a Senate hearing, where he pleaded…
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    SCOOP: The New Ban Hawley Wants After Fauci’s Senate Appearance
    Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is set to announce legislation to bar all federal employees from soliciting cash prizes while they are in office. The announcement follows the senator grilling Dr. Anthony Fauci about the millions of dollars he pocketed while allegedly contributing to the spread and cover-up of the COVID-19 pandemic. “No federal bureaucrat should…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    Fauci May Have Pleaded the 5th, but the GOP Won’t Stop Until It Has the Truth on COVID-19
    Chairman Rand Paul, R-Ky., and the Senate Homeland Security Committee put Dr. Anthony Fauci on center stage Wednesday morning. Republican senators hit him with three hours of questioning about his alleged part in the spread and cover-up of the COVID-19 virus. Over 100 times, Fauci stayed silent, invoking the Fifth Amendment. Republican committee members claimed…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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    ‘NO MORE CENSORING’: How NIH Director Wants to Restore Trust in Public Health
    Dr. Jay Bhattacharya said he was blacklisted on X during the COVID-19 pandemic because he questioned certain mandates like masks for toddlers. Now, as director of the National Institutes of Health, he is making sure no other scientist is censored due to their political views. Bhattacharya, then a professor of health policy at Stanford University…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    What Lawmakers Say About Virologist Calling Out Fauci, NIH on COVID-19
    Remarks from a virologist calling out former National Institutes of Health leaders—Dr. Francis Collins and Dr. Anthony Fauci—have sparked renewed interest on Capitol Hill about the government’s handling of COVID-19. Virologist Simon Wain-Hobson, a professor at the Paris-based Institut Pasteur, accused Fauci and Collins of “professional failure” in the COVID-19 pandemic and the lead-up to…
    Fred Lucas
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    NIH Faces Blowback Over Controversial Dog Research
    Two advocacy groups are calling for the cancellation of taxpayer-funded medical research on dogs at a Michigan lab, claiming that the “experiments” have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of dogs. Representatives from the two groups—the Wilberforce Institute, a conservative animal rights group, and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, which opposes animal experiments—are set…
    Fred Lucas
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    NIH Gave Millions to Chinese Entities to Study Infectious Diseases
    The National Institutes of Health has doled out nearly $46 million in taxpayer funds to 100 Chinese institutions in the form of subgrants since 2011 to conduct research into infectious diseases, drug addiction, mental health, and other scientific fields, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis of federal spending data. The National Institutes of…
    Andrew Kerr
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    NIH Spends Millions on Hopped-Up Honeybees and Sexy Goldfish, Then Asks for Zika Funding
    What do honeybees on cocaine, drunken songbirds, and sexy goldfish have in common? Each was the subject of extensive, taxpayer-funded research and each features prominently in Sen. Jeff Flake’s most recent expose on government waste. The Arizona Republican’s oversight report—”Twenty Questions: Government Studies That Will Leave You Scratching Your Head“—highlights $35 million worth of federally…
    Philip Wegmann
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