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by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
misled authorities about the likelihood of COVID-19 escaping from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, and controlled the public narrative using media allies to label lab leak evidence as conspiracy theory.
Prominent liberals have joined critics in decrying Fauci's troubling lack of transparency...
He was aided in this goal by a clandestine global conspiracy involving, ...and the world's most eminent virologists.
Their private correspondence from this period reveals that each of these prominent physicians and scientists personally believed that the lab leak origin was not only probable but highly likely.
They nevertheless unleashed an arsenal of deception, misdirection, misinformation, bullying, censorship, gaslighting, and other abuses of power to persuade the world that the virus had evolved naturally.
The only thing they didn't offer was legitimate scientific evidence.
In April 2020, Dr. Fauci used an authoritative tone and scientific-sounding language to gull the sympathetic and credulous White House media scribes:
The apple-polishing DC press corps never required Dr. Fauci to explain how a spike protein carrying a furin cleavage site highly adapted for human infection - but no longer capable of infecting bats - could have possibly appeared on a bat-borne coronavirus without the benefit of evolving in intermediate species.
Nineteen months later, in November 2021, before a less pandering bipartisan Senate panel, Dr. Fauci minced the same sort of pseudoscientific gibberish, adding an appeal to authority:
During the entirety of the ongoing two-and-a-half-year public health emergency, while he was acting as the president's top COVID-19 advisor, Dr. Fauci made no effort to genuinely investigate COVID-19's origins.
He advanced only the most vacuous and anemic vagaries to support his pronouncement that COVID-19 emerged from a natural spillover.
The only citations he ventured were similarly dodgy articles by authors on his payroll that he, himself, had secretly commissioned and - in some cases - edited.
Meanwhile, Dr. Fauci's confident public assertions contrasted sharply with the much more cautious position taken by independent scientists, by other government officials, and by his loyal confederates in their private conversations with him.
Dr. Fauci pulled off his chicanery with the complicity of political leaders in the White House and Congress under the thrall of partisanship, willful ignorance and/or cowardice.
Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs, a lifelong Democrat and the chair of the Lancet Commission that investigated COVID-19's origins, recalled the dynamic:
On May 11, 2021, Senator Rand Paul finally asked:
Dr. Fauci angrily denounced the question:
He decried Senator Paul's query as slander by,
Dr. Fauci was then under oath, so his blanket denial was a perjury of striking audacity...:
The authors of myriad gain-of-function studies openly thank NIAID and NIH for funding their research at the Wuhan lab.
Any journalist willing to do journalism - meaning, adopt skepticism toward Dr. Fauci's penumbra of infallibility and perform unsanctioned research - could have ferreted out the citations in minutes.
The ease of finding these incontrovertible proofs of his deception makes Dr. Fauci's lie seem reckless.
But the savvy NIAID chief evidently calculated that the issue was now so politicized and the media so committed to fortifying official government orthodoxies that truth was irrelevant.
From the beginning of the crisis, the nation's leading journalistic outlets abetted Dr. Fauci's public deception by shielding him from difficult questions.
In fact, the debate over COVID-19's origins exposed a global 'pandemic' of media malpractice.
A fawning and scientifically illiterate press, addicted to Pharma advertising revenues since the advent of widespread direct-to-consumer advertising in the lay media in the late 1990s,
...and a billion-dollar HHS media slush fund, cooperating secretly with the FBI and intelligence agencies, and blinded by tribal apoplexy against President Trump, never demanded that Dr. Fauci answer legitimate queries about his controversial GOF studies in Wuhan and elsewhere.
While the mainstream media kept mum, independent scientists and researchers from around the globe, political leaders, and alternative press outlets deluged NIH with published references documenting a decade of NIH-funded GOF experiments in Wuhan.
Some even demanded that Dr. Fauci face perjury prosecution.
Two weeks after sparring with Senator Rand Paul, on May 25, amidst a blizzard of such denunciations, a haggard Dr. Fauci issued a grudging "clarification" acknowledging that NIAID had indeed funded,
He was apparently describing,
...who, as we shall see, were, at that very moment, energetically collaborating behind the scenes with Dr. Fauci, Peter Daszak, and Ralph Baric to cover up the voluminous evidence that their research likely triggered the 'pandemic'.
Over his five decades astride the public health technocracy, Dr. Fauci had made himself the Dark Master of the bureaucratic cover-up, including the art of never admitting fault.
So when the NIAID boss returned to Capitol Hill to face an irate Rand Paul on July 20, 2021, he was unrepentant.
Jeffrey Sachs, a liberal icon in his own right, would later find himself marveling at Dr. Fauci's cynical dexterity at weaponizing partisan politics and bald-faced lies to escape accountability.
As head of The Lancet Commission, Sachs ultimately concluded that it was Dr. Fauci's reckless experiments that incited the 'pandemic'.
Prior to the 'pandemic', Dr. Sachs had collaborated extensively with Dr. Fauci in Africa's HIV programs. He respected the NIAID leader and considered him his friend.
But after investigating COVID's origins, Sachs saw a darker side of Dr. Fauci that left him feeling like a naïf ingénue:
On September 1, 2022, thirteen months after Dr. Fauci's last bout with Senator Paul, the NIAID chief's friend and longtime research colleague, Robert Redfield - the ex-CDC director (Centers for Disease Control and Preventon) - told former Senate investigator Paul Thacker that Dr. Fauci,
Thacker reported Redfield's damning finger-pointing in The DisInformation Chronicle:
Redfield recounted contacting Dr. Fauci in the,
Redfield said that despite the clear science, Drs. Fauci and Collins created an atmosphere where "everyone had to agree to the narrative" that COVID had emerged from a "wet market" in Wuhan, not the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
In July 2023, Dr. Fauci's longtime friend, colleague, co-collaborator, and his ostensible boss, assistant HHS secretary Dr. Robert Kadlec, who served as director of vaccine development for Operation Warp Speed, delivered an even more damning verdict in an interview with a leading Australian newspaper:
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