Dr. Anthony Fauci has had quite a bit to say about Covid and “science” throughout the past year. But when it came to answering for his corrupt handling of the outbreak before the Senate on Wednesday, the so-called health “expert” kept his trap shut.
During his testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the former NIAID director invoked the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering questions about his lies to the public and his conduct throughout the viral outbreak. This included dodging queries about his role in funding gain-of-function research in China; downplaying the credible lab leak theory; ignoring the Covid shots’ risks and potential Covid treatments; and more.
Despite refusing to respond to Republican senators’ questions about the subject, the former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director has been more than willing to give his two cents to America’s corporate media and similar entities. According to his own website, Fauci has given interviews and public remarks on at least 10 occasions since January, furthering a recurring pattern of the retired health official’s documented obsession with his own self-promotion.
Scientific American magazine published an article based on a discussion with Fauci last month, in which the former Covid czar expressed his supposed concerns about the “politicization of science.” He also called for “stronger pushback … against attempts to downgrade the government-sponsored biomedical research efforts.”
Fauci also sat down for a discussion with an official from Stanford University’s Department of Medicine. Published last month, the interview focused on the former NIAID director’s “early career as a physician-scientist, the first years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the creation of PEPFAR, the scientific foundation behind COVID-19 vaccines, and the challenge of communicating evidence in an era of misinformation,” according to the interview summary.
So-called “misinformation” was a topic of discussion Fauci mentioned in a commencement address he gave to Macalester College graduates in May. Speaking about the rise of social media and AI, he reportedly said, “Never has it been so easy for distortion, misinformation and outright falsehoods to spread with such speed.”
Fauci additionally participated in a roughly hour-long podcast interview published that same month. The episode’s release came weeks after the former NIAID director partook in a Georgetown University on-stage reading of Sophocles’ Oedipus the King alongside several celebrities and political figures. The event was billed as a “catalyst for powerful, constructive, global discussions about climate change, ecological disaster, ethical leadership, and environmental justice.”
A 2021 interview Fauci gave for the Obama Presidency Oral History project was also released this month.
Wednesday’s hearing comes days after committee Chair Rand Paul, R-Ky., released Fauci’s diary entries. The previously unseen records documented the former health official’s self-aggrandizing behavior, collusion with corporate media, Covid falsehoods, and more.
