“Fauci testified under oath that the NIH has never funded gain-of-function research. That’s a lie,” says Dr. Scott Atlas, who served on the White House Coronavirus Task Force in 2020 alongside Dr. Anthony Fauci.
As Senator Rand Paul counts down the final days of the statute of limitations to indict Fauci, Dr. Atlas breaks down the undeniable evidence of NIH funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab that many now believe was “ground zero” for the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Whether Fauci can be punished for lying under under oath to Congress, I’m not sure,” says Dr. Atlas. “He was given a pardon… as the Biden administration came to a close, for crimes that he supposedly didn’t commit… Will there be punishment? I have my doubts.”
Dr. Scott Atlas, MD is the Robert Wesson Senior Fellow in health policy at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. From August through November 2020, he served as Special Advisor to the President and a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. He is the author of A Plague Upon Our House: My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID from Destroying America.
From the 5/7/2026 episode of Ask Dr. Drew
