Dr. Anthony Fauci said “gain-of-function,” the term for research to make viruses more dangerous, is a “completely meaningless term” in a new interview.

The octogenarian virologist, who has insisted that the National Institutes of Health he heads never funded such research, tried out his latest tack Thursday night when MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan asked about a September report by the Intercept.

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It sure seems like Fauci is lying about gain-of-function research