The same scientists who looked America in the eye and declared a lab origin for COVID-19 “implausible” were privately assigning it a 30 percent chance. Senator Rand Paul just dropped the Slack messages that prove it.
On Tuesday, the Kentucky Republican released internal communications among the authors of the March 2020 Nature Medicine paper “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2.” That paper became the scientific gospel used by Anthony Fauci, the mainstream media, and every public health bureaucrat to shut down any discussion of a Wuhan lab leak.
Kristian Andersen, Robert Garry, Eddie Holmes, and Andrew Rambaut told the world the virus showed no signs of laboratory manipulation. Privately, they were not nearly so sure.
Andersen put the lab origin probability at 30 percent. Holmes started at 20 percent and later edged it down to 10 percent. Either number is a far cry from the paper’s public confidence that the idea was off the table. By June 11, 2020, Andersen was still wrestling with the gap between what they published and what the evidence actually allowed:
“The part I’m really struggling with is that, at the end of the day, we really don’t have any hard evidence one way or the other — and especially given some of the recent evidence, we also can’t rule out that somebody actually put it in there. That’s obviously not to say that somebody did, but we can’t rule it out. Our paper was pretty strong in saying ‘there’s no way,’ but I have less confidence in that statement at this stage.”
Read that again. The lead author admitted the paper overstated the case against a lab origin, then kept quiet while the world treated their work as settled science. These men received large multimillion-dollar grants from American taxpayers. Paul put it plainly: “This level of dishonesty, I think, needs to be exposed. These are people who get large, multimillion-dollar grants from our country, and we shouldn’t be giving money to people who lied to us.”
The messages also show the authors debating the furin cleavage site—the very genetic feature that has always raised the sharpest lab-leak questions. Andersen spoke of “smoking(ish) guns” that left him uncomfortable. They coordinated with NIH leadership and elements of the U.S. intelligence community while publicly defending conclusions they privately doubted.
They even turned on Ralph Baric, the prominent coronavirus researcher, suspecting him of leaking peer-review details to a journalist and labeling him their own “Deep Throat.”
This is not an isolated academic spat. It sits inside a larger pattern of institutional protection that Paul has been systematically exposing. Just a day earlier he released documents showing Customs and Border Protection agents prepared to question EcoHealth Alliance president Peter Daszak—central figure in the Wuhan research pipeline—upon his return from the WHO origins investigation.
The FBI stepped in and told them to stand down. Fauci himself is scheduled to testify before Paul’s committee this month under subpoena. The cover-up machinery is still grinding.
Scripture is clear on the matter. “These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates” (Zechariah 8:16).
When scientists paid by the public choose narrative over evidence, when they publish certainty while privately admitting doubt, they are not practicing science. They are practicing deception. And deception of this scale, on a question that determined lockdowns, school closures, vaccine mandates, and the erosion of basic liberties, is not a technical error. It is a moral failure that cost lives and shattered trust.
The Proximal Origin paper was never the dispassionate scientific consensus the media pretended. It was a political document written by men who knew the lab possibility remained open and chose to close the door anyway.
Paul’s release of these Slack messages does what the scientific establishment refused to do: it forces the truth into the light. The question now is whether the same institutions that elevated these authors will finally hold them to account, or whether the American people will once again be told to move on and forget.
We should not forget. Truth still matters. And those who buried it while cashing government checks should answer for it.
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