Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. criticized Dr. Anthony Fauci's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, accusing the former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director of misleading the public on multiple issues, funding gain-of-function research, and contributing to the suppression of dissenting medical opinions.

Kennedy also pointed to a new National Institutes of Health policy that he said is intended to prevent federal funding for dangerous gain-of-function research in the future.

According to Kennedy, several physicians who questioned the government's COVID-19 response faced censorship and professional consequences.

"You know there was, there were doctors like Peter McCullough and Robert Malone and Pierre Kory, who were saying from the beginning they were looking at the data and saying, yeah, this this causes myocarditis, it causes blood clots, it causes myocardial pulmonary infarctions," Kennedy said.

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He argued those doctors were punished rather than heard.

"And they were being censored, they were being vilified, marginalized, demonized, delicenced, publicly scolded by the press."

Kennedy said the media played a central role in shaping public perception during the pandemic.

"The media malpractice is really what I think we should focus on because they were anybody who questioned Dr. Fauci was put in was like put off on an island. They were pariahs, and they were the media every day was telling us trust the experts."

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Kennedy then turned his criticism directly toward Fauci, arguing that the government's messaging on COVID-19 repeatedly proved inaccurate.

"Well, he was the expert, and we now know he was lying about everything."

Kennedy listed several areas where he alleged Fauci misled the public.

"He was lying about mass. He was lying about social distancing. He was lying about lockdowns. He was lying about natural immunity. He was lying about the ability of the vaccine to prevent transmission and and prevent infection."

Kennedy also referenced Fauci's own experience with COVID-19 after vaccination.

"He got the vaccine and he immediately got COVID 19 and then he got a pulmonary infarction."

He further alleged that Fauci concealed information about the origins of the virus.

"He was lying about the origins from day one."

Kennedy then explained why he believes Fauci misrepresented the issue.

"Why was he lying? Because he funded those studies at the Wuhan lab, and he funded the studies at the University of North Carolina that developed the techniques for weaponizing COVID-19."

Kennedy said the research was later transferred to scientists in Wuhan.

"And then gave those Ralph Baric, his funded scientist at the University of North Carolina, gave those to Zachley, the scientists, the Bat Lady scientist in the Wuhan lab."

According to Kennedy, the research involved a technique designed to alter viruses while concealing evidence of laboratory manipulation.

"And he taught her a technique that Anthony Fauci had paid him to develop, called seamless ligation, which is also called nosium."

Kennedy described the technique as "a way of manipulating the virus to make it deadly to human beings, and then covering up the evidence of human manipulation."

He questioned why taxpayer-funded research would support such work.

"And why would anybody spend NIH money developing that kind of technology? It's bio weapons technology. It has nothing to do with public health. It's the opposite. It's the inverse of anything you would want to do with public health."

Kennedy also alleged that the research was transferred to a Chinese military laboratory.

"Well, he's taking. He took that and he gave it to the Chinese military lab at Wuhan."

Concluding his remarks, Kennedy pointed to what he described as a policy change at the National Institutes of Health aimed at preventing similar research from receiving federal funding in the future.

"So these are, and as you mentioned at the beginning of this, we today NIH has now issued a policy to make sure these kind of experiments can never happen again."

He added, "That NIH will never again pay for a dangerous gain-function experiment."

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