Legal eagles within the Bondi Justice Department have embarked on an investigation into one of the Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases (CREID) grants awarded to Scripps Research Institute scientist Kristian Andersen by Dr. Tony Fauci in 2020.
Andersen appears to be preparing for an escape, reportedly seeking a newly created position at the University of Oslo, perhaps to avoid scrutiny as the investigations unfold.
Dr. Kristian Andersen may have reason to be anxious.
In a questionable turn of events in 2020, Dr. Tony Fauci allegedly influenced Andersen to change his public position regarding the COVID-19 lab leak theory. Following a conversation with Fauci on February 1, 2020, Andersen received a substantial $1.88 million grant, in addition to $16.5 million in funding from NIAID, which some might call Fauci’s personal slush fund.
As previously reported by in 2023 and 2024…
On January 31, 2020, the Danish-born and British-educated scientist Kristian Andersen emailed Dr. Fauci, expressing concerns that the virus appeared to be lab-engineered.
In that email (emphasis added):
“[O]ne has to look really closely at all the sequences to see that some of the features (potentially) look engineered . . . . Eddie [Holmes], Bob [Garry], Mike [Ferguson], and myself all find the genome inconsistent with evolutionary theory.”
However, by February 4, 2020, after his conversation with Fauci, Andersen had a change of heart, declaring the lab leak theory to be a baseless conspiracy.
Kristian Andersen stated, “The main crackpot theories going around at the moment relate to this virus being somehow engineered… and that is demonstrably false.”
So what transpired between January 31 and February 4, 2020?
It seems Dr. Anthony Fauci had a chat with Dr. Kristian Andersen, persuading him to publicly assert that the COVID-19 virus was not of laboratory origin, accompanied by the enticing offer of a hefty grant from the NIH.
The New York Times later reported on Andersen’s initial email to Fauci in a June 2021 article.
Over the past year, Dr. Andersen has been one of the most vocal advocates of the theory that the coronavirus originated from a natural spillover from animals to humans outside of a lab. However, in his January 2020 email to Fauci, he had not yet arrived at that conclusion. He expressed to Fauci, the top infectious disease expert in the government, that some features of the virus led him to suspect it might have been engineered, and noted that he and his colleagues were planning to investigate further by analyzing the virus’s genome.
They published their findings in a scientific journal on March 17, 2020, concluding that a laboratory origin was very unlikely. Since then, Andersen has reiterated this perspective in interviews and on Twitter, placing him in the middle of the ongoing debate about whether the virus might have leaked from a Chinese lab.
When the email exchange with Fauci was made public, the media frenzy around Dr. Andersen escalated, prompting him to deactivate his Twitter account. He did respond to inquiries from The New York Times about the email and the ensuing controversy, which has been edited for brevity.
As previously noted by in March 2023, Dr. Andersen changed his narrative just four days after conversing with Fauci.
However, The New York Times conveniently left out that after his February 1 conversation with Fauci, Dr. Andersen received a $1.88 million grant and $16.5 million in NIAID funding, which many would deem highly suspicious.
Dr. Andrew Huff testified about this in 2022, revealing it in a legal report crafted by the Renz Law Group.
Dr. Huff disclosed that Andersen’s funding at the Scripps Research Institute surged from $393,079 monthly to $800,139 after he retracted his stance on the COVID lab leak theory.
(page 56)
This was highlighted by Mises Caucus on social media.
The man on the left is Kristian Andersen, a British scientist who emailed Fauci 1/31/20, saying the virus looks lab-made. The man on the right is Kristian Andersen, the guy who Fauci called on 2/1/20 and ordered to publicly say it wasn’t lab-made, which he did. Fauci then gave… https://t.co/UDzIhNb37k pic.twitter.com/LY7ttS23kJ
— Mises Caucus (@LPMisesCaucus) March 1, 2023
According to Zero Hedge, Andersen is feeling the heat from the latest investigation.
During a sworn deposition, Andersen claimed he also briefed the CIA and FBI, although the timing and specifics of those discussions remain murky.
As the pressure mounts on Andersen, he is reportedly looking to relocate outside the United States, apparently finding a new position at the University of Oslo. This would represent a significant drop in prestige, as the Scripps Research Institute is considered one of the foremost scientific establishments globally.
Despite multiple requests for comment, Andersen has not responded.
The DOJ might want to keep a watchful eye on this individual’s passport for a little while. It seems there’s a growing possibility that Kristian Andersen may have to confront the consequences of his actions after all.
