Ron Johnson Drops The Hammer On Scientist Who Co-Wrote Key Paper Discounting Lab Leak Theory

At Tuesday's Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) questioned Dr. Robert Garry about Dr. Anthony Fauci and the lab leak theory.
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[@TysonKyle88]

These people are getting caught, but why arent we holding them accountable?

[@dwightcurrie8316]

Don't have the Power.....YET

[@ValenceFlux]

He has exceptional privileges and you don't! Get out of my office whistleblower! Something I've experienced anyway.

[@alanhumble662]

It's a show. Nothing will happen to Fauci. Nothing will happen to Hunter. Nothing will happen to Biden.

[@h.r.puffnstuff8705]

Because they’re catching their own coworkers.

[@kenneth.topp.]

​@@dwightcurrie8316the GOP can insist on anything they want, but their objections is all show

[@danielshagman]

The giggling, the shifting in his seat, the "I don't remember" line from a guy who's supposedly HIGHLY educated...........all of that says to me this man is lying. Prison time, now.

[@norman_5623]

When somebody doesn't understand the science, he attacks the witness' demeanor. This sounds like the Great Cultural Revolution in China, where ignorant "students" attacked scientists without understanding what they were doing. I'll bet you never read the Nature publication they're talking about, right?

[@BorbonRooster]

They'd be much more willing to talk from behind bars, wouldn't they

[@frutt5k]

@@BorbonRooster They would, after their first mass showering event...

[@baaamakingbaaaa]

You can tell by the look on his face that he has already been assured he will not be held accountable.

[@ForeverYoungKickboxer]

Yep

[@725curious]

For sure

[@steveladner4346]

Laughing all the way to the bank.

[@leonardmacaulay9833]

I bet they’d let him publish from prison.

[@yeost187]

@@leonardmacaulay9833 They probably would, but we all know he isn't going to prison, and neither is the gremlin Fauci.

[@ritab-c492]

Disgusting what kind of corruption the ppl allow to continue in this country!!!

[@ForGlory]

Well, in a way, it makes sense. If someone is depraved enough to promote and normalize 1) modern love, 2) queerdom and 3) queer marriage on a national level and then take it international like some perverse business model, I guess making a killing off a lie about a manufactured crisis isn't a very great deviation. Let's not forget: when 99% of people are so corrupt they would rather support the perversion whereby marriage and gender were "redefined" than stand up and Fight for Principle, everyone gets lazy and self absorbed so accountability isn't even possible. When people won't police themselves with Christ's Gospel, they either get hounded by Virtuous people who Fight For Virtue, or they simply don't police themselves, so this kind of scandal suddenly becomes the modus operandi of the national government!

[@daviddill921]

Part of their hypocritical oath "do no harm" obviously means nothing to these clowns. I will NEVER TRUST them ever again!!

[@digger105337]

Hippocratic Oath, but Hypocritical is pretty close to the truth with these birds.

[@ForGlory]

Why should they keep their oath? You have to have a soul to keep an oath or even care about oaths! It' may not be a popular fact that when 99% of people are so corrupt they would rather support the perversion whereby marriage and gender were "redefined" than stand up and Fight for Principle they effectively sell their souls, but it's an ubiquitous fact, and that's what really matters.

[@dragonflycrashed5511]

@@ForGlory not a single doctor in the world today has taken the hippocratic oath. get your facts right.

[@cesarcesar5129]

The oath is ceremonial. Vestigial.

[@johnroyston3859]

All that and the doctor still sits up there and defends their lying. HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE!!!!

[@rossi6113]

Just look at him grinning and smiling away. He doesn't give two fks does he? $$$$$$$$$$

[@cptkirkp]

It wasn't a leak - they released it

[@valgilson6504]

There was a containment failure shortly before covid, intentional or not is unknown due to China silence.

[@bobafet6064]

@@valgilson6504 No, I agree that they released it. Fauci stated that during Trump's presidency he would face a pandemic.

[@TBLUNTZ420]

@@bobafet6064 no, he didn't say that. He said at some point there would be a pandemic. He didn't say during Trump. Big difference.

[@ManicMindTrick]

Yeah where is the evidence or logic for that? Its not inconceivable to imagine a mentally unstable or psychopathic individual single handily spreading it for maximum destruction and death but I haven't seen a single indication of that being the case.

[@teenahweenah2608]

Sars-CoV-2 was the pretext to vaccinate the world with a viral vector vaccine technology. These people should be investigating FAUCI for what he knows about the Lars Vorland Committee report on VIRAL VECTOR VACCINE TECHNOLOGY. To be clear: Viral Vector Vaccines were the mostly widely used during the covid-19 pandemic.

[@TBLUNTZ420]

We were always right.

[@MichaelSheffield-ox8yd]

The only real question is whether the lab release was accidental, or intentional. Never put anything past the CCP in conjunction with corrupted US gov't agencies.

[@jerryross7135]

God Bless Ron Johnson, an American Hero MAGA24

[@brucefranklin6295]

He's one of the good ones.Unfortunately there are few like him in government.

[@seanwattles9264]

That is the smile of a three year old caught red handed.

[@norman_5623]

You don't understand what Garry is talking about. You never read the Nature letter, right?

[@mistyrexrode492]

Truly the definition of mad scientist

[@ultraflem]

"It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine." -Marcia Angell, MD ("Drug Companies and Doctors: A story of Corruption." NY Review of Books, Jan. 15, 2009.)

[@joshcantrell8397]

If they’re so incriminating, why aren’t they being punished?

[@Crazybirdlady23]

Great question mate! 🤨

[@norman_5623]

Because they're not incriminating. It's not a crime to publish a paper that Ebright disagrees with. I'll bet that you never read the Nature letter.

[@joshcantrell8397]

@@norman_5623 riiight. Nothing they did was incriminating or improper use of funds, or conflict of interest. Did you see how much of the emails were redacted? Surely, they redacted it for no reason whatsoever. Get real!

[@norman_5623]

@@joshcantrell8397 In American law, we have a tradition (not always followed) of not believing accusations unless they can be supported by facts. The committee has not come up with *facts* to prove these scientists have done anything incriminating. Your strong belief that they committed crimes is not a fact. I've filed dozens of FOIA requests in my career, and I've read probably a hundred or more. They almost always have redactions, usually for reasons required by the FOIA law, which you can look up. I think I know more about FOIA than you do. When you believe that everyone is conspiring to hide the truth, that *is* a conspiracy theory.

[@joshcantrell8397]

@@norman_5623 these weren’t simple redactions.

[@gob9122]

Johnson means well but he’s spinning his wheels far to many members in the House and Senate own shares of stock in the pharmaceutical industry for any meaningful outcome to come from these hearings

[@Chris-vp2lm]

How many people were lost and they're still not being honest about what happened.

[@nealjolly5434]

This is what is wrong with our country. These people get away with it and even laugh, while under oath. Our government has become a joke with no punishment for liars and crooks. There was a time that this would come with extreme punishment. Not anymore. The crooks run the show.

[@h.r.puffnstuff8705]

Great question but it’s been going on for a century or two.

[@mikewurlitzer5217]

The Declaration of Independence still exists and the conditions are worse today than under British rule. Seems a Declaration of Independence 2.0 is needed to rid the USA of this corrupt government.

[@nealjolly5434]

Correct.

[@stevenyoung9473]

just normal for a corrupt banana republic

[@Rustynail951]

More gum bumping from politicians. Where's the accountability?

[@jnesrh420]

✔💯 Gum bumping lol I gotta use that now.

[@lamp-stand575]

They don't even appear particularly ashamed of themselves.

[@MrAbsalomdavid]

So… where is the accountability?

[@400KrispyKremes]

Behold one of the weirdo creeps who lied right to our face. I bet he just skates on it too.

[@kipling1957]

This has to be the most annoying witness ever.

[@huh4233]

Imagine the sound of the word Quisling.

[@zackeze3478]

Intense grilling today. Business as usual tomorrow.

[@contemplating1015]

None of these so-called selected experts scream professionalism. Instead they scream unstable, unaccountable and facetious...

[@wollace4339]

you would think with all that money he would have fixed that comb over

[@user-yv7zm2vr2o]

If nothing was wrong scientifically then logic would suggest the emails should be released in full. Nothing wrong therefore nothing to hide ?

[@patriotguy938]

Jail jail jail jail jail jail jail

[@yeost187]

"There has been an abundance of scientific evidence.." ~ some guy pretending to be a scientist. cool. you going to actually cite any evidence? or just say there is? And did that "evidence" actually pass the scientific process?

[@lionelazulay5107]

Jail.

[@tonidantonio9877]

Jailllll.

[@Ps119]

Don't talk, prosecute

[@omegamark4155]

That's a face of a "he took my stapler" guy from Office Space. We all know what happened there.

[@charchark365]

And yet NOTHING is going to happen.....

[@lizkeith1356]

JAIL, JAIL, JAIL.

[@beyondfubar]

Well sucks that this is going to a congressional hearing because that guarantees nothing will happen.

[@ifbbprosjt]

Nothing is going to happen to these people, this is all smoke screen! Everyone of them need to be jailed.

[@johndewever1322]

Doctors, nurses, and scientists - once highly regarded, but have now totally destroyed their standing in the community

[@michellewilliamsligouri3343]

The first scientist must be high. Lies, lies, lies

[@vieiradosreismariadelurdes9105]

DRUGS 😅 and MEDICIne....

[@robertshaver4432]

Enough yak flapping let's to the "charges and accountability".

[@jeffurbanski5627]

We won’t get accountability with the criminals being in charge!

[@robertshaver4432]

@@jeffurbanski5627 Exactly correct!

[@tonidantonio9877]

Jail please, enough already.

[@robertshaver4432]

@@tonidantonio9877 YES!

[@therafter7494]

And yet no one is held accountable nor goes to jail....all optics

[@lisavanoni6552]

Talk no action we know they lie we know they never go to jail for any time

[@rickz3543]

Treason

[@stujd1539]

Believing something is true is not the same as the truth.

[@er1073]

When President Eisenhower was quoted I knew this was going to be good. So why aren't any of them in prison? Ed in Partlow, Virginia

[@justgjt]

The 2019 World Military Games, held every four years for serving military personnel and similar to the Olympic Games was held in Wuhan China. Nearly 10 000 athletes participated in those events in October then went back home to there native countries. In November of 2019 the first signs of what we now know as Covid-19 were starting to become apparent. . . . Hmmmm 🤔

[@wonderaboutall1928]

These wicked demons uncovered!!!

[@faithfreedom8898]

WHO THE HELL decided thatFauci should be in charge of giving out grants!?!?!?

[@abrcic1]

The CIA. He works for them that’s why get got away with making a bio weapon. We are living the age of Biological Weapons. That’s the new “atomic bomb”

[@soylentgreen9492]

He might have helped with a secret vote in the past.

[@user-rg7vs7qh8m]

Fauci as given out almost a trillion dollars in grant's in his career as a liberal democrat

[@eriksnip1243]

If there is no fraud, show all the unredacted emails and find the deleted correspondence. These scientists cannot be trusted. Health and wisdom to all. Erik the Netherlands.

[@marshallodom1388]

That's all history now. Absolutely no one will be actually held accountable, no one will know no one's accountable, and no one can prevent it from happening again.

[@SpideyVids]

Look at him squirm and obfuscate.

[@Grow.YT.Views.537]

This video just made my morning commute enjoyable!

[@jimmysanders4813]

2020 was a huge year on planet earth.Egregious things happened to human beings and no one was held accountable.The people of Earth are not in charge anymore and they haven't been for a long time.We are in Danger!

[@janieromer2907]

Thank you Ron Johnson who was seeing through the Covid crimes from the beginning. Honorable patriot.

[@greensombrero3641]

take them all to task - blinded by science money

[@cs8892]

Liars

[@brutechurchill9394]

Low moral sociopaths will do anything for money.

[@frutt5k]

Suddenly they cannot remember their earnings...

[@wolfgangkranek376]

Will there ever be justice served?

[@joycekoch5746]

These labs are all still open and doing their "research".

[@wonderaboutall1928]

Just doesn't tell the truth...doesn't want to admit he exists because of untruth!!!

[@oliverknill631]

These folks should not get any government funds any more.

[@maya-amf3325]

Absolutely terrible job by Johnson there of holding the guy accountable. He could've held his own words to his face and then let him babble his way to an answer or even be silenced by the undeniability of the facts. Instead he made a show, didn't give the guy any time to answer during his intervention and therefore handed him the last word. The fact that he doesn't let him speak will give all the ammunitions his opposition needs to reject this intervention as a partisan show.

[@Linda-pd2jg]

Is that scientist related to Janet Yellen?

[@rkrk-tc1mk]

The questions are where all money has gone and to whom, ,,the corruption with in this country is unbelievable,,yet no one is charged with anything

[@dselleno]

As always, FOLLOW THE MONEY. Goes years with nominal grants, writes an inaccurate paper, and gets $25.2 million. That's $12.6 million/year. That would be over $375 million in a 30 year career, yet he admits he's received less than $100 million. Why so much in 2 years after COVID?

[@terrymiller8597]

my god is that Roger Ebert?

[@John-jl9de]

When do the arrests start? Who's going to jail?

[@babiartola]

what a grim individual.

[@simonbreetzke438]

would love to be a scientist..................... no matter how wrong they are, they never held accountable

[@funkvillain]

So the scientific method is you can officially change your “truth” and publish that whenever you see fit?

[@pinballrobbie]

When a government keeps secrets from the people it serves, who's safety are they concerned with, the government or the people?

[@andyrbush]

I think I'm not alone by regarding Dr. Fauci's attitude indicated he was guilty.

[@dsamh]

These doctors belong in prison.

[@buttafan4010]

It's not just a few bad apples. *"I believe the entire system is corrupt to the core!"-Judi Bari 1995 headwaters forest protection rally* *in solidarity with Julia Butterfly and Luna; spoken before a crowd of over 2,000 demonstrators.*

[@thailandlife12]

We realized what was happening so we changed our mind. What's the problem? People change their mind all the time...

[@hootowl6354]

When a complete lunatic like Ron Johnson is involved, how can anyone take it seriously?

[@frog1tndaully]

25 million dollars, I would smile and lie as long as I had to. It's easy when you have no soul, knowing you will never be held accountable

[@dangiles5246]

And nothing will happen

[@tronconesgym]

Roger Ebert's doppelganger!

[@rachaelcourtnell7275]

What a clown...he didn't listen to any thing the Senator said and just goes on to tell people to read the paper, what a fool.

[@SeeCSeesCC]

❤bam

[@God_help_us]

Call the cops😂

[@dirkdiggler9482]

Roger Ebert with the assist again. He's doing pretty well for a dead guy.

[@CharlieRasch]

Shit like this is why there is distrust of government and science.

[@stevenyoung9473]

not knowing how much in grants is like not knowing how many people you have slept with - once it gets over a certain number I imagine you stop counting - thats how much he has be given

[@YvonneWatson-ff5ex]

I’ll never trust them again and I’m a retired registered nurse. They’ve done nothing but lie, lie and lie some more.

[@airmark02]

evil and getting away with it

[@gerardshpunt8327]

I think Ron dropped the hammer on his own head with the resulting lunatic fringe traitorous behavior

[@725curious]

Ebright lies and smiles at the same time . 🤢

[@cesarcesar5129]

This is absolute theater.

[@simonjohnwright5129]

Money is the worlds problem. It has always been the world's problem and will always be the worlds problem until money no longer exists. And that meaning no transactional value in giving and receiving. The monetary system IS the stone age.

[@ryleighloughty3307]

Is the largest lawful criminal organization the community of scientists?

[@brucefrykman8295]

Get all politicians out of the science and education industries. Let market forces fund these industries. Here is the equation that drives this policy: Government = Corruption

[@vladx3539]

and? what are the consequences?

[@OnlyTwoShoes]

Raaaaaaaats...

[@Robert-ek5ee]

Was there a magic act performed at 3:10? Wilford Brimley/Dr. Ebright suddenly puts on an Austin Powers/Roger Ebert disguise, momentarily even surprising himself, to get off the hook and out of the room?

[@rightwired]

DEY JABBA NO BADDA

[@jaysky2000]

Dr. Robert Garry ... another slimeball (to put it mildly). Plain and simple.

[@hulkingcolosussklunnulk2501]

Telekinesis gain of function accomplished....GRANTED to the Klun child

[@mattvance485]

Drops the hammer ?

[@CSGATI]

If it's redacted it's a cover-up.