Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday that he felt it was “dangerous” to criticize him, arguing that those who did so threatened to “damage science.”

He made the comment in an interview with Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan, who asked him about his critics, including Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rand Paul (R-KY). “It seems another layer of danger to play politics around matters of life and death,” Brennan said.

“Exactly,” replied Fauci, who heads the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. “To me, that’s unbelievably bad, because all I want to do is save people’s lives. And anybody who’s looking at this carefully realizes that there’s a distinct anti-science flavor to this. So if they get up and criticize science, nobody’s going to know what they’re talking about. But if they get up and aim their bullets at Tony Fauci, well, people can recognize there’s a person there.”

“So it’s easy to criticize,” he added. “But they’re really criticizing science, because I represent science. That’s dangerous. To me, that’s more dangerous than the slings and the arrows that get thrown at me. And if you damage science, you are doing something very detrimental to society long after I leave.”

Fauci, the public face of U.S. efforts to respond to Covid-19 under President Joe Biden and previously under former President Donald Trump, faced criticism most recently after documents made public in September revealed the National Institutes of Health contributed $599,000 to research at the Wuhan lab connected to Covid-19 — despite months of vehement protestations and denials to the contrary by Fauci.

Paul shot back in a Sunday message on Twitter, writing, “The absolute hubris of someone claiming THEY represent science. It’s astounding and alarming that a public health bureaucrat would even think to claim such a thing, especially one who has worked so hard to ignore the science of natural immunity.”

https://www.mediaite.com/news/fauci-says-criticizing-him-is-dangerous-theyre-really-criticizing-science-because-i-represent-science/ 

Dr. Anthony Fauci pushed the hypothesis that COVID-19 likely originated in a Wuhan wet market rather than a Chinese government lab, despite doubts cast on the market possibility by scientists, Republican lawmakers, and the Chinese CDC director.

Many scientists have concluded the Huanan Seafood Market may have been a super spreader event in late 2019 but that it's not where COVID-19 began.

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/fauci-pushes-wet-market-hypothesis-on-covid-19-origins 

and Trump really won

frankj1 wrote:

and Trump really won

frankj1 wrote:

Buttttt.... COVID-19 is a reengineered genome sequenced virus that never transmitted to humans before the WUHAN LAB had a laboratory "pressure leak " and let it loose into the air, into the local neighborhood and it floated over to the WET MKT A FEW BLOCKS AWAY...

PLAIN AND SIMPLE

THAT CHINESE LAB F**KED UP BIG-TIME.

Mr. Jones wrote:

Last I read they were searching bat caves in the region for the specific strain that started things as part of the effort to determine how it crossed into humans. Got a scientific cite/source I can read?

rfenst wrote:

We might as well just say the ‘Rona came from a Bactrian camel from Mongolia who entered a Starbucks and ordered a latte. China and the WHO will sign off on it and we can move on.

HockeyDad wrote:

OK. Let's do that.

rfenst wrote:

I’m good with it. We have the same amount of evidence for this theory as we do for the pangola/bat soup wet market theory. We also get to avoid war with China.

HockeyDad wrote:

Yeah, but we can't afford to go to war against China.

rfenst wrote:

I just got my copy of RFK Jr.’s The Real Anthony Fauci. Flipping through the first couple of chapters, one thing really stood out — that Fauci dispenses some $7 billion in research grants to “public health” researchers all over the world. He has held that position for 30 years. This means that for thirty years there has been one-man monopoly control over virtually all public health-related “peer review.” This proves in spades what a clownish, lying, incompetent, corrupt stooge Fauci is when he responds to criticism with statements like “everyone I know agrees with me on this.” Yeah, everyone who works for him and is paid by him, or wishes to work for him and be paid by him (with taxpayers’ money). This means that “public health” peer review is a joke and a fraud. No other profession in the world would be taken seriously if one single government bureaucrat was effectively in charge of all the professional publications in the entire field.

And what Fauci doesn’t control through government funding, other government bureaucrats at NIH and elsewhere do. They are Fauci wannabes in this corrupt, stinking, fraudulent field of “public” health. No wonder Dr. Scott Atlas, a real doctor and medical researcher, was so shocked at the immense incompetence he was exposed to while serving on President Trump’s COVID task force and sitting through meetings with dopey Fauci and that goofy scarf woman. He told Tucker Carlson that the two of them seemed 100% detached from and unaware of the relevant science and did nothing but repeat leftist lockdown/masking/you-must-obey/jab-every-child/shut-down-all-the-schools-and-churches talking points without even discussing any scientific basis for any of it.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/12/thomas-dilorenzo/the-most-striking-fact-in-robert-f-kennedy-jr-s-new-book/