Coronavirus czar Dr. Anthony Fauci insisted this week that Sen. Rand Paul had slandered him during a congressional hearing. Paul had pressed Fauci about whether the National Institutes of Health funded dangerous gain-of-function research in China. However, all of the evidence suggests Paul is right, and Fauci is lying.

Fauci has been adamant that the NIH did not fund gain-of-function research in China’s Wuhan lab, even swearing under oath that the agency “has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.” But as Paul pointed out this week, there are records proving the WIV was conducting gain-of-function research and that the funding the NIH granted to EcoHealth Alliance, a U.S.-based research organization that has long supported the WIV’s work, helped fund that research.