NIH Adopting New Stopping High-Risk Research

We’ve just been handled to the spectacle of Dr. Anthony Fauci being grilled in entrance of a Senate listening to, chaired by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who is a medical doctor himself. The gist of all the fuss around Fauci, of course, is his attainable involvement in the development, or at least the funding of, the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China. This lab is the suspected origin of the COVID-19 virus, and is understood to have been concerned in probably lethal gain-of-function research, with funding from the United States – which made up a lot of the questioning, that Anthony Fauci refused to reply.

Now, the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Jay Bhattasharya, has announced that the NIH is adopting a risk-based coverage, which they’re calling the “U.S. Government Policy for Stopping High-Risk Life Sciences Research.”

During my affirmation listening to, I pledged to the American public that I’d implement strong and clear oversight of NIH-supported research.

Now, I’m happy to share the new U.S. Government Policy for Stopping High-Risk Life Sciences Research, a groundbreaking… pic.twitter.com/kFXp6c7kEz

— Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD (@NIHDirector_Jay) July 29, 2026

The X post reads in full:

During my affirmation listening to, I pledged to the American public that I’d implement strong and clear oversight of NIH-supported research.  

Now, I’m happy to share the new U.S. Government Policy for Stopping High-Risk Life Sciences Research, a groundbreaking government-wide mandate that expressly prohibits gain-of-function research which may considerably endanger American lives and jeopardize our Nation’s security.

You can view the full assertion right here. Here’s the key half of that:

This groundbreaking government-wide coverage establishes, for the first time, an express prohibition on harmful gain-of-function research which may considerably endanger American lives and pose substantial risk to our Nation’s security.

The new U.S. Government-wide coverage represents a paradigm shift in federal oversight by adopting a complete, risk-based framework supported by strong enforcement, accountability, and transparency measures. In addition to the ban on federal assist for harmful gain-of-function research, the coverage introduces enhanced review and reporting necessities for all life sciences research, including unbiased, top-down assessments for initiatives that could increase the dangerous penalties of organic brokers.

The coverage also strengthens global safeguards by instituting new worldwide restrictions, including banning life sciences research involving sure international locations or entities and prohibiting high-risk work in international locations missing satisfactory oversight.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. also weighed in on the new coverage:

The federal authorities has a obligation to shield the American people — not fund research that might put them at risk. Today, we’re ending federal assist for harmful gain-of-function research and changing weak oversight with clear, enforceable safeguards. This coverage delivers on… https://t.co/847Y48iTug

— Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) July 29, 2026

He writes:

The federal authorities has a obligation to shield the American people — not fund research that might put them at risk. Today, we’re ending federal assist for harmful gain-of-function research and changing weak oversight with clear, enforceable safeguards. This coverage delivers on President Trump’s dedication to put security first while guaranteeing America stays the global chief in moral, accountable, and lifesaving biomedical research.

If we might sum this up in three phrases, those three phrases is perhaps “no more Faucis.”

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Under Dr. Fauci, the United States was, not directly maybe but even so, working with a laboratory in Communist China on viral gain-of-function research. This research is a step away from organic weapons development, and as I’ve often said and written, organic weapons ought to scare us far more than nuclear or chemical weapons. While the Great War was the conflict of chemists and World War II, the conflict of physicists, any third world conflict might be the conflict of biologists, and that poses a higher risk of human extinction than the other two mixed.

The United States does need to keep abreast of this developing biotechnology, yes, and that could imply doing some lab work to develop counters to attainable brokers. But that work must be tightly contained, risk-based, and most importantly of all, completed by Americans, proper right here in the United States. No more Wuhans, no more “accidental” releases – and no more Anthony Faucis.

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