Dr. Anthony Fauci, the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who famously claimed to “represent science,” has a monumentally bad memory.

In recent and lengthy testimony to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic behind closed doors, Fauci claimed that he “did not recall” over 100 times. In his deposition Nov. 23, 2022, in the federal case of Missouri v. Biden, Fauci’s recollection failed him 174 times.

The good doctor is presenting an impressive case of recurrent amnesia.

Nonetheless, following two days and 14 hours of a wide-ranging interrogation over Jan. 8 and 9 examining the federal government’s flawed response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Fauci confirmed three vitally important points for the record.

1. The view that the deadly pandemic originated in a leak from a Chinese research lab no longer is a “conspiracy” theory.

In his closed-door testimony to the House select subcommittee, Fauci affirmed the hypothesis that COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese laboratory—a view shared by analysts of the FBI and the Department of Energy—was not a “conspiracy” theory.

Note well: Four years ago, Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins, then Fauci’s boss as director of the National Institutes of Health, were diligently discrediting the legitimacy of the origins of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 in a lab leak. At the same time, they were “prompting” top virologists to publish a prominent paper in the journal Nature Medicine affirming zoonotic origins and rejecting the notion of laboratory origins.

In February 2020, most of these virologists tapped by Fauci initially assessed the deadly coronavirus to have a decidedly unnatural origin. But in a matter of days, and without even the possibility of accessing hard Chinese data, they........

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