Overview

• In an interview with Tucker Carlson, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. alleged that as NIAID director Anthony Fauci funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology that U.S. agencies assess could have sparked the pandemic.
• Kennedy noted that President Biden’s preemptive pardon shields Fauci from any legal liability for research or policy decisions made between 2014 and 2024.
• He cited NIAID-funded experiments by UNC scientist Ralph Baric on methods to obscure genetic manipulation in pathogens as evidence of opaque laboratory practices.
• The secretary said HHS is questioning the safety of mRNA vaccine technology due to a lack of comprehensive safety studies and numerous anecdotal reports of serious injuries.
• He outlined a truth commission modeled on South Africa’s post-apartheid system that would grant immunity for truthful testimony and allow perjury prosecutions to enforce accountability.