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An investigative report by Vanity Fair contributor Katherine Eban, based on more than 100,000 EcoHealth Alliance documents, shows a disturbing reality of \u201cmurky grant agreements, flimsy NIH oversight and pursuit of government grants by pitching increasingly risky global research\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n In 2014, EcoHealth received a $3.7 million NIAID grant to study the risk of bat coronavirus emergence and the potential for outbreaks in human populations. Nearly $600,000 of that went to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which was a key collaborator.<\/em><\/p>\n The 2014 grant highlights the truth of what critics of gain-of-function (GOF) research have been saying for years, which is that this kind of research never achieves its aims. They say it needs to be done to prevent and\/or get ahead of pandemics, but not a single pandemic has ever been averted and, instead, GOF research may actually be the cause of them.<\/em><\/p>\n EcoHealth president Peter Daszak\u2019s behavior has added fuel to suspicions of a lab leak \u2014 potentially of a virus that he himself helped create. In 2015, he warned a global pandemic might occur from a laboratory incident, especially the sort of virus manipulation research being done in Wuhan. Despite this history, in February 2020, Daszak wrote a \u201cscientific consensus statement\u201d published in The Lancet that condemned the lab leak theory as a wild conspiracy theory.<\/em><\/p>\n It appears those who insist SARS-CoV-2 is of natural origin, despite all the evidence to the contrary, are doing so because they don\u2019t want risky virological research to be blamed for the COVID pandemic.<\/em><\/p>\n