Numerous top scientists told the Republican-led Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic this week that they provided cover for Tony Fauci and other covid kingpins due to the incredible "political" pressure that was placed on them.

With the help of then-director Francis Collins of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Fauci, who led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), "employed fatally flawed scientists," according to the scientists, in order to "avoid blaming China for the Covid-19 pandemic."

To date, the subcommittee has received more than 8,000 pages of documents containing more than 25 hours of testimony from everyone involved in creating the March 2020 study entitled "The Proximal Origins of SARS-CoV-2." That study was published in the Nature journal, having played a critical role in shutting down allegations that covid "leaked" from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).

The paper's four official authors – Kristian Andersen, W. Ian Lipkin, Edward Holmes, and Robert Garry – had privately discussed before publishing that the natural origins theory about covid coming from bat soup at a wet market was impossible. Still, they concluded with dogmatic certainty that "we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible."

(Related: According to Sen. Tom Cotton, communist China is complicit in the coverup of the lab leak theory, which he described as a "smoking gun.")

Nature study authors conveniently omitted ethics declaration showing that Fauci was the ringleader of the paper

What Andersen et al. conveniently failed to include in their paper was a proper ethics declaration showing that Fauci, who oversaw the funding of bat coronavirus research at the WIV, had both commissioned and edited the paper. Congressional investigators later proved that Fauci was, in fact, the paper's ringleader.