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GOP wants answers from scientist about ‘dramatic change’ on COVID origins | Washington Examiner

By Thomas A. Smith

House Republicans want answers about the dramatic change in how a top scientist first talked about the coronavirus, from initially saying some of COVID-19 s features (potentially) look engineered to calling it a crackpot theory a few days later.

The GOP is focusing on a still-secretive teleconference call with Dr. Anthony Fauci and other scientists.

Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the top GOP member on House Oversight, sent a letter to Kristian Andersen, a professor of immunology at Scripps Research, asking him to brief the committees about gain-of-function research conducted at the Wuhan lab and the possibility COVID-19 was engineered to be more contagious.

via www.washingtonexaminer.com

Presumably it was the result of a scientist thinking deeply about the science and concluding based on sciencey stuff that the science required him to change his mind just in time.