Joe Rogan on covid: what the evidence says · JRE #2254
SUBJECT: COVID
Not a true/false call. Every claim is logged with its sources; read the exhibits below.
I'm sure. When he was lying to Rand Paul about whether or not they did gain of function research. Like, how is that not perjury? How is he not in trouble?
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
At Senate hearings in 2021, Fauci testified that NIH had never funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, testimony Senator Rand Paul disputed and cited in a criminal referral to the Justice Department. Fact-checkers found the dispute centers on a scientific definitional disagreement: NIH-funded EcoHealth Alliance research on bat coronaviruses was judged by NIH staff not to meet the government's technical definition of gain-of-function research, while critics such as Rutgers biosafety researcher Richard Ebright argue it did. No perjury charge has ever been filed against Fauci, and the Department of Justice has not brought any prosecution based on Paul's referral. In January 2025, outgoing President Biden issued Fauci a preemptive pardon covering federal offenses he "may have committed" during his government service, which Fauci accepted while maintaining he committed no crime. As of mid-2026, Fauci's Senate testimony remains a matter of ongoing political dispute rather than an adjudicated instance of perjury.