Commentary In recent days, the National Institute of Health admitted to funding what could arguably be called gain of function research on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, in what many have termed a shocking turn of events. A top official at the NIH, Lawrence A. Tabak, wrote a letter to Republican Congressman James Comer of Kentucky to inform him that the NIH was in fact funding the study of bat coronaviruses in Wuhan. Tabak turned around to quickly throw an organization called EcoHealth Alliance under the bus by claiming that they were the ones who weren’t transparent with the NIH about what they were doing with their grant funding in Wuhan. It’s amusing that Tabak chose Comer as the recipient of this letter, when anyone following the back-and-forth on gain of function research knows that the Kentucky legislator who deserved this mea culpa is Senator Rand Paul. …