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In a hearing of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene denounced Dr. Anthony Fauci’s “so-called science,” and recommended that the former National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) boss face prosecution. The committee might check out Fauci’s May 15 speech to students at Columbia’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
“Sadly,” Fauci told the students, “elements of our society are driven by a cacophony of falsehoods, lies, and conspiracy theories that get repeated often enough that after a while, they stand largely unchallenged, ominously leading to an insidious acceptance of what I call ‘the normalization of untruth’ . . . And we as much or more than anyone else need to push back on these distortions of truth and reality.”
In reality, Dr. Fauci repeatedly lied about funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), and that very day former NIH acting director Lawrence Tabak testified that NIAID did indeed fund such research at the WIV. That lab, controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, is the most likely origin of the Covid virus, which Fauci claimed arose naturally in the wild. That is pure speculation, not science, which relies on measurement, testing, and replication. Fauci has claimed to represent science itself, and there’s another reason he was a poor choice to address medical students.
In 1966, Fauci earned a medical degree at Cornell but in 1968, he took a cushy “yellow beret” job with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), so if he ever practiced medicine it was only for a short time. Dr. Fauci’s bio showed no advanced degrees in molecular biology or biochemistry, but in 1984 he became head of NIAID. Kary Mullis, who earned a PhD in biochemistry from UC Berkeley and won a Nobel Prize for invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), thought Fauci unqualified for the NIAID job.
“This man thinks you can take a blood sample and stick it in an electron microscope and if it’s got a virus in there, you will know it. He doesn’t understand electron microscopy and he doesn’t understand medicine. He should not be in a position like he’s in.” But he was, with serious consequences for those suffering from AIDS.
Dr. Fauci’s recommended treatment was AZT, also known as azidothymidine and Zidovudine, a highly toxic drug that failed to prevent or cure AIDS. Fauci branded critics “AIDS deniers,” a tactic he would repeat during the pandemic. Instead of debating the scientists of the Great Barrington Declaration, most if not all more qualified than himself, Dr. Fauci branded them fringe epidemiologists.
Fauci’s speech at Columbia recalls his lecture for McGill University in 2021. “If ever you could imagine the worst possible environment into which a global pandemic emerges,” Fauci contended, “would be in an environment of anti-science, complete normalization of lies, complete normalization of equating the true scientific data with complete nonsense. This is something that is so disturbing to me as a physician, as a scientist and as a public health person.” Then the NIAID boss revealed what he was really about:
“I think what people have to appreciate is that indeed, you do have personal liberties for yourself and you should be in control of that,” Fauci said. “But you are a member of society, and as a member of society — reaping all the benefits of being a member of society — you have a responsibility to society. And I think each of us, particularly in the context of a pandemic that’s killing millions of people, you have got to look at it and say there comes a time when you do have to give up what you consider your individual right of making your own decision, for the greater good of society.” (emphasis added)
The totalitarian creed, plus Dr. Anthony Fauci, equals white coat supremacy. A government bureaucrat for more than 50 years, Fauci exercised executive-level power without ever facing the voters. He controlled public health policy and spending on medical research, a huge concentration of power. He caused untold suffering but has never been held to account.
Rep. Greene is not out of line with her call for criminal charges, but the larger task is to eliminate the structures of the white coat supremacy Dr. Fauci embodied.
Congress should eliminate or break up NIAID, and at very least slap a four-year term limit on whoever runs the agency. No single individual should control public health policy and spending on medical research. As Sen. Rand Paul contended in Deception: The Great Covid Cover-up, vaccine mandates, “should not be dictated by anyone who stands to gain monetarily.” In other words, always follow the money, and eliminate conflicts of interest.
All government medical grants should be posted on the internet in real time and downloadable form. As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis observed, “sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.”
White coat supremacy is incompatible with the rights and freedoms of the people. If Congress fails to take it down, the people are in no mood to forgive.