Guest Post by Dr. Vinay Prasad
Recently on Face the Nation, Dr. Fauci described criticism of his pandemic policies and actions as an attack on science itself. Fauci says, “They’re really criticizing science because I represent science.”
You can watch the clip here:
Lawmakers like Sens. Rand Paul and Ted Cruz have called for Dr. Fauci to step down and be prosecuted over the course of COVID-19. Fauci scoffs at such threats, calling it "noise."
"They're really criticizing science because I represent science. That's dangerous." pic.twitter.com/zLzceD2DHe
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) November 28, 2021
How should we think about this claim? Dr. Anthony Fauci is a senior, prominent and accomplished scientist, but is he synonymous with science itself? Is any criticism of his policy positions anti science?
The answer is clear: No one person represents science, and of course, any scientist who plays a prominent role in public policy is not immune from criticism, in fact, they should expect it.
Dr. Anthony Fauci has been a public servant for decades and should get our thanks, but he has also been a prominent national determinant of public policy during COVID19. Policy of course is more than science. It is science and values combined.
Here are a few policy positions that Dr. Fauci can be celebrated or criticized for:
- In mid March of 2020, Fauci advocated for 15 days of ‘hunkering down’— the initial shelter in place orders were driven by Fauci’s advocacy. Many will feel this was a reasonable precaution, but others will argue it precipitated a series of events where global governments believed lockdown was sanctioned and could be used and reintroduced.
- Fauci argued strongly against school reopening in April 2020. Please read this post for a detailed list of Fauci’s claims/ statements that encouraged school closure.
- Fauci famously flip flopped on masks. He either told one noble lie, or another, but regardless masks have become a hotly disputed topic.
- Fauci opposed a 1 dose initial strategy in the USA, as was done in the UK— a strategy that multiple modeling studies show would save more lives.
- Fauci admitted to Don McNeil that the herd immunity threshold he offered was in part motivated to increase vaccination rates (a noble lie). Later the CDC would remove the goal of herd immunity entirely.
- Fauci was part of the pressure on the FDA to authorize boosters prior to RCT data that led to Gruber and Kraus resigning from FDA. They penned an op-ed critical of this.
- Fauci supported vaccine mandates, which may increased vaccination rates by a few percentage points, but may have downstream negative consequences on multiple public domains.
- Fauci pushed for travel bans for Omicron, a decision which many other experts said would be unhelpful.
- Fauci might have funded laboratory research in Wuhan that resulted in genetic manipulation of a coronavirus that then leaked and triggered the global pandemic (open inquiry).
- Fauci says that fewer than 10,000 cases a day are needed to achieve normality, though this number appears to be entirely invented with no data to support it.
I mention these 10 points not because I am arguing that Fauci was wrong in all instances, but merely that he played a prominent role in these policies, and must be judged for these choices. Of course, elected representatives are tasked with that inquiry, and the public and history books will be tasked with that judgement.
Is Fauci a synonym for science? No man is. But he was a prominent drive of US based pandemic policy, and at least some of his biggest decisions may have been errors. He should be judged for that.
This is reposted from the author’s blog. Here is a video discussing these points:
Separated at birth.
What’s with this quote?
“Dr. Anthony Fauci has been a public servant for decades and should get our thanks…”
Was he not paid? Were there no benefits and retirement packages as part of that employment? That wasn’t enough, now he needs our gratitude as well.
I’m at about chapter 7 of RFK Jr’s book in which Fauchi is the central character. You can multiply ad infinitum the number of crimes against humanity attributed to him. He has many accomplices too.
Peter Breggin (“COVID-19 And The Global Predators: We Are The Prey”/2021 describes the most notable of the predators at length, as well as their characteristics and schemes. One characteristic of note: the predators have no religion, other than criminal self-interest.
Interestingly, Breggin Is a Psychiatrist who is also a Libertarian. And little Tony the Chipmunk is on the list.
When you learn the real history of vaccinations. There has never been a good one. The Spanish Influenza was started with the meningitis vaccination given to troops in WWI. Aids started with the hepatitis vaccine given to gay men in New York. The list of bad vaccines is endless. Bill Gates, Fauci, and their Globalist buddies use 3rd world countries as their testing ground. The more you research, you find their crimes are endless. But it started with the Rockefellers in the early 1900’s. The Fall of the Cabal, and it’s 19 sequels, on Brighteon, gives a very good history. The criminality of big Pharma and the Global Cabal is unbelievable. They want us and our children dead or in slavery, FOREVER.
He needs investigation and prosecution.
Geneva and I pray for his accounting. And Biden to be smited.
I hope his prosecution is deferred until THE JUDGMENT.
If man had his way, justice would be too swift.
But in the Judgment, which could well last for 1000 years, men will be able to spit on him or throw feces on him at their leisure, while he wallows in custom-crafted torment of a kind we’re all none too creative enough to devise.
Hmmmm …. normally not a big fan regarding the idea of God as Torturer. But, I’ll make an exception for Fauchi.
Karma/the holy spirit is always just. They will get theirs in this life or the next, probably both.
This is why there should be mandatory retirement and term limits or employment time limits in govt jobs.
The highest paid bureaucrat in the government.
Among his list of accomplishments is ADHD went from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 22 boys. Some say 1 in 5 boys has some learning disability.
His reign has been an abject failure for America on a tremendous number of levels.
Never was a “public servant”; only ever a self servant.
Of course, he should be bowed and prayed to. It is his right.
Symbols are never the thing they symbolize.
But shortcuts, emperors’ robes, the easy…most people will buy that.
Fauci is a man who has never had a real job. He is the exact definition of a grifter. Him and Slo Joe don’t look alike but they are twins. Useless as boobs on a boar hog.
More like greedy, money grubbing political hack.
Yes, he IS!! Can’t you see it?
— FauCI
— sCIence
Couldn’t be clearer ….
fAuCI…CIA…Couldn’t be clearer.
I would buy science fiction…Maybe
Can someone ask Fauci why Australia has set up a vaccine injury compensation web portal, listing all the injuries we already have heard about?
https://www.health.gov.au/initiatives-and-programs/covid-19-vaccine-claims-scheme
Is Anthony Fauci the Same Thing as ‘Science’?
Crikey, that’s a tough one. Perhaps it depends on the definition of ‘Thing’? Fauci certainly qualifies as one, but does ‘Science’? Isn’t science a method? Can a method be a thing? Maybe ‘Thing’ is the wrong word. Perhaps Phenomenon! would be better?
Many people say he’s communicating in some kind of secret code. They’re saying that since science is rayciss, when Fauci says he is science it logically follows that what he is actually saying is “I hate niggers”. A lot of people are very offended at the thought of this, as one can well imagine.
But on a serious note, since the ‘Science’ with which he identifies is somewhat synonymous with ‘cult’, ‘fashion’, ‘narrative’ and ‘consensus’, but which is in fact more akin to voodoo, the answer would be a resounding yes.
It must be noted however, that Fauci’s brand of ‘Science’, being completely untethered from, and in complete denial of, the actual scientific method, requires its own definition, as has been the case with ‘pandemic’, ‘vaccine’, ‘immunity’ etc., which were recently re-defined in order to more properly conform to the current ‘mandated’ reality.
Fauci’s ‘Science’ is of a type that is largely determined as being ‘settled’. Actual science is never so. It’s folly and dishonest to conflate the two. Dr. Fauci should also well know that a doctor practices medicine, and is referred to as doing so for a reason.