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TRENDING TOPICS, MOST CREDIBLE STORIES | | #1 in U.S. News • 31 articles Did the NIH fund research that may have led to the creation of the coronavirus? |  | |
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In major shift, NIH admits funding risky virus research in Wuhan.
Vanity Fair (Left) • Factual Grade 70% • 6 min read
The NIH acknowledged that EcoHealth Alliance, a New York City–based nonprofit that partners with far-flung laboratories to research and prevent the outbreak of emerging diseases, did indeed enhance a bat coronavirus to become potentially more infectious to humans, which the NIH letter described as an "unexpected result" of the research it funded that was carried out in partnership with the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
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The second [revelation] was that EcoHealth Alliance violated the terms of its grant conditions stipulating that it had to report if its research increased the viral growth of a pathogen by tenfold. [The NIH] stipulated that the virus EcoHealth Alliance was researching could not have sparked the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, given the sizable genetic differences between the two.
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One distinctive segment of SARS-CoV-2's genetic code is a furin cleavage site that makes the virus more infectious by allowing it to efficiently enter human cells. That is just the feature that EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology had proposed to engineer in the 2018 grant proposal.
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Dr. Fauci critics say NIH letter debunks 'gain of function' denial.
Washington Examiner (Moderate Right) • Factual Grade 72% • 5 min read - Selected long-read
How Covid-19's origins were obscured, by the East and the West.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Center) • Factual Grade 85% • 15 min read
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| | #2 in U.S. News • 11 articles Why has President Biden postponed the release of documents related JFK's assassination? | 
The files had originally been scheduled to be released by next week. According to the White House memo, the postponement came at the recommendation of...
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| | TODAY'S POLL Was there a cover up of JFK's assassination? All votes are anonymous. This poll closes at: 9:00 PDT
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The world's top oil exporter aims to reach 'net zero' emissions of greenhouse gases - mostly produced by burning fossil fuels - by 2060 - 10 years...
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| | #1 in Business News • 11 articles Why are Amazon workers on Staten Island seeking a vote on unionization? |
"Amazon has a high turnover rate -- they hire and fire all the time," [Amazon Labor Union leader Chris Smalls] said. "We also want a decent living wage," he ad...
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| | #1 in Health News • 109 articles What were the results of Covid-19 vaccine trials among children 5 to 11 years of age? |
Scientists at the Food and Drug Administration presented an analysis late Friday showing that the protection offered to children between the ages of 5 and 11 by t...
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