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In yet another under-the-radar but significant victory for taxpayers and transparency, the President Donald Trump administration has quietly terminated federal contracts with one of the world’s largest academic publishing conglomerates.

The funding cuts for Springer Nature come following mounting evidence of political bias, scientific censorship, and misuse of federal tax dollars.

Springer is accused of helping former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Dr. Anthony Fauci and ex-National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Francis Collins to cover up evidence that COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab. ...

The company controls prestigious science journals but has increasingly come under fire for operating more like a political advocacy group than a scientific institution. ...

Springer Nature has become infamous for pushing politically charged narratives, downplaying the COVID-19 lab leak theory, and censoring research to appease authoritarian regimes like China. ...

One of the most notorious examples was the now-discredited 2020 article in Nature Medicine titled “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2”, which sought to declare the lab-leak hypothesis “implausible” just weeks after the virus emerged.

The paper played a pivotal role in shutting down discussion of the lab-origin theory.

However, as the tide has turned, the lab-leak theory is now widely considered the most likely scenario, even by mainstream outlets.

A House Oversight Committee investigation in 2023 found that then-NIH leaders Fauci and Collins tracked the paper’s progress through the review process and pushed for its publication to silence dissent.

Dr. Collins even emailed Fauci, lamenting that the article hadn’t fully killed the lab-leak theory and asked if “there was anything more they could do.”

The committee’s conclusion was damning: “This is the anatomy of a cover-up.”