‘COVID researchers implanted organs from aborted babies’: Ernst rips Fauci over disgusting practices

A fiery Senate hearing erupted as Sen. Joni Ernst confronted Dr. Anthony Fauci over NIH-funded research involving human fetal tissue, questioned funding linked to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and repeatedly pressed him on controversial research practices. Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment in response to questions during the hearing. The hearing reignited debate over COVID-19 origins, U.S. research funding, and the ethics of biomedical experiments, including Ernst's criticism of the term "BLT sandwich" used in connection with a research model discussed during the proceedings.