"...In summary, the NIH determined that WIV may have conducted an experiment yielding a level of viral activity which was greater than permitted under the terms of the grant. The NIH gave WIV several opportunities to address and/or rebut the NIH determination, but WIV failed to do so. WIV conducted an experiment that violated the terms of the grant regarding viral activity, which possibly did lead or could lead to health issues or other unacceptable outcomes..."
Pardon the cynicism but the US government is notorious for shipping money and "aid" overseas and then have no way of accounting for it, no way for proving it was used as intended by those it was intended for.
> More political theatre for entertaining the naive
Unnecessary cynicism because in science and research spending, there are a lot of tightly implemented controls (which makes sense). I think perhaps you're conflating this scenario with defense spending accountability, which is loosey-goosey by design (which also makes sense, I think).
I'm not confused. Certainly not as much as Uncle Sam. Consider the source article. Why didn't the "tightly implemented controls" *prevent* this? It didn't. Uncle Sam is just as human as the rest of us. In fact, Aunt History would argue even more flawed.
Please, let's stop being so naive. It's not working.
