Senator Rand Paul sharply attacked Dr. Fauci, immunologist and White House adviser on the health crisis, during a US Senate hearing on the management of the pandemic, Tuesday, January 11. He attacked him on four main points: his belief that he would embody science, the abuse of his position to try to smear three epidemiologists from Harvard, Stanford and Oxford, his lies regarding the origin of the virus, and his handling. of the pandemic.
He does not debate because he believes that he is THE science
« The idea that an official like you might unilaterally claim to be the embodiment of science, that any criticism of you would be seen as a criticism of science itself, is dangerous. », Begins the senator. This introduction served as a response to comments made on the American channel CBS by Dr. Fauci, interviewed on November 28 on the criticisms addressed to him on his management of the Covid pandemic:
« Anyone who examines this closely realizes that there is a noticeable anti-science flavor to it. (…) In a way, they criticize science because I embody science. It’s dangerous. “, Estimated the immunologist.
Dr Fauci’s plot once morest three epidemiologists from Harvard, Stanford and Oxford
According to Rand Paul, Dr Fauci’s arrogant state of mind led him to believe that he would be in his right to take advantage of his position to implement a cabal aimed at sullying the reputation of three eminent epidemiologists of Harvard, Stanford and Oxford, all of which disagree with him.
In October 2020, Martin Kulldorff, Sunetra Gupta, and Jay Bhattacharya, respectively professors of medicine at Harvard, Oxford and Stanford, published the Great Barrington Declaration, a document since signed by thousands of other scientists, which warned regarding the effects devastating confinements and called for targeted protection of people at risk.
See also our debriefing (March 2021) Prof. Martin Kulldorff: “never do confinement once more!”
A media lynching campaign once morest the three epidemiologists ensued. “I nailed them in (the magazine) Wired,” Dr. Fauci was ecstatic in an email to Dr. Collins, director of the American Institutes of Health (NIH). ” Do you really think it’s appropriate to use your $ 420,000 salary to disparage scientists who disagree with you? Rand Paul asks him during the hearing.
Despite repeated pressure, the person concerned will stick to a sober defense: ” Incorrect as usual. Senator, you are wrong regarding almost everything. »
Fauci and the origin of the virus
The senator then came to an accusation already formulated in early November during a previous hearing concerning American funding to the Wuhan laboratory via the NGO Eco Health Alliance, funds that the American NGO would have received by the NIH including Dr. Fauci is at the head.
The senator accuses Dr. Fauci of having implemented with other scientists an attempt to hide the true origin of the virus by discrediting any questions with the now famous label of “conspiracy theory”. In September 2021, the Daily Telegraph had already revealed that 26 of the 27 scientists who strongly condemned in a letter published by the Lancet in February 2020 the theory that the virus was not of natural origin … had links to the Wuhan lab.
See also: Anthony Fauci: cornered during a Senate hearing, he continues to deny
A calamitous crisis management
On the ground of the management of the pandemic, Rand Paul insisted on knowing if his main architect under the presidencies Trump and Biden considered that his management, which included in particular containments, was according to him a ” great success » ?
To this question, the one who believes to embody science has discarded on the Centers for the control and the prevention of the diseases (CDC), arguing that he acted only according to the directives emitted by the agency of health public.
“Fauci is a threat”
In an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, Rand Paul reviewed the course of the audition. He notably mentioned the importance of going to the polls during the next elections if the Americans want to hope to be able to get rid of the immunologist whom he did not hesitate to call a “threat” to the American people.