Fauci also acknowledges there are "bioterrorism" concerns in this paper he wrote but he puts them aside to advocate for gain-of-function research.
— Sharri Markson (@SharriMarkson) May 28, 2021
Writing in the American Society for Microbiology in October 2012, Fauci wrote:
“…In an unlikely but conceivable turn of events, what if that scientist becomes infected with the virus, which leads to an outbreak and ultimately triggers a pandemic?” he wrote. “Many ask reasonable questions: given the possibility of such a scenario – however remote – should the initial experiments have been performed and/or published in the first place, and what were the processes involved in this decision?
Scientists working in this field might say – as indeed I have said – that the benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks…”