{"id":16954,"date":"2026-09-01T11:42:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T08:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/?p=16954"},"modified":"2026-09-01T11:42:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T08:42:40","slug":"ngo-corrupted-science-in-fight-for-7-5-million-in-taxpayer-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/ngo-corrupted-science-in-fight-for-7-5-million-in-taxpayer-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"NGO Corrupted Science in Fight for $7.5 Million in Taxpayer Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>David Morens<\/strong>, a high-ranking official at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and close adviser to <strong>Anthony Fauci<\/strong>, admitted in court documents to coordinating with <strong>Peter Daszak<\/strong>, head of the NGO EcoHealth Alliance, to publish an article that would exonerate both the organisation and the Wuhan Institute of Virology from suspicion regarding the origins of the coronavirus, according to <strong>Felix Perrefort<\/strong> writing in <em>Nius<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>EcoHealth Alliance had spent years working alongside the Wuhan Institute of Virology researching bat coronaviruses under a project entitled Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence. The research, which included controversial gain-of-function experiments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior US health official pleaded guilty to conspiring against the United States for helping plant a scientific article dismissing COVID-19&#8217;s lab leak theory to protect a research group linked to Wuhan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":16953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[6522,8541,11248,12759,12758,209,7619],"nfg_topic":[135],"class_list":["post-16954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-anthony-fauci","tag-covid-19-lab-leak","tag-david-morens","tag-ecohealth-alliance","tag-peter-daszak","tag-united-states","tag-wuhan-institute-of-virology","nfg_topic-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16964,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16954\/revisions\/16964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16954"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=16954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}