🔥 “White Coat Waste told me that every holdover from the ‘Fauci era’ at NIH ought to be fired for their involvement in gain-of-function research, which the group sees as responsible for creating COVID.” 📰 Lab-Leak Payback Has Begun By: Daniel Engber @danengber July 7, 2026 The Atlantic “The strongest argument for connecting all of these cases is that lab-leak activists themselves have done the same. Anthony Bellotti @anthonybellotti, the founder and president of the White Coat Waste Project, an animal-activist group that has leveraged the lab-leak theory in pursuit of its goal of ending all taxpayer-funded animal testing, declared that ‘Morens’ indictment should be the beginning—not the end—of long-overdue lab leak accountability at National Institutes of Health (NIH).’ Just two weeks before Munster was indicted on charges that seem to have no connection with the pandemic, Bellotti’s group joined the right-wing activist @LauraLoomer Laura Loomer in hawking what they called a “whistleblower report” about the virologist’s alleged misdeeds. … Justin Goodman @JustinRGoodman, the senior vice president for advocacy at White Coat Waste, told me that every holdover from the ‘Fauci era’ at NIH ought to be fired for their involvement in gain-of-function research, which the group sees as responsible for creating COVID. ‘I would throw Morens, Munster, and Taubenberger all in the same box of reckless and arrogant animal experimenters who fucked around and are finding out,’ he said.”