Showing posts with label Fauci. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fauci. Show all posts
Friday, August 21, 2026
Wednesday, August 12, 2026
Sunday, August 9, 2026
The Fauci Files (Conspirituality podcast #320)
During an extraordinary career, Dr. Anthony Fauci led the federal response to HIV-AIDS, SARS, H1N1, Ebola, and Zika. He always advocated funding for pandemic preparedness, vaccine development, immunology and pathogen research. Then came COVID-19, which, unlike outbreaks past, was trapped in a politicized online disinformation and conspiracy-mongering stew.
As he was pushing 80, Fauci rode the dragon of a novel coronavirus pandemic that was leaving piles of bodies in Italy, India, and New York. He served as the interface between scientists, government, and the public, all while learning about the virus in real-time. Like any good public health communicator, he sought to save lives using the best available knowledge. Like any good scientist, he kept an open mind about what was not yet known.
But the pandemic-grievance industry made him the face of a conspiracy theory. Did he cause a catastrophically deadly pandemic, decimate American freedoms, or ruin the economy over a largely harmless flu? Today we discuss the release of his “diaries” and tune into last week's Senate hearings, where crackpots bullied, berated, and slandered the 85-year old public servant.
Interview:
As he was pushing 80, Fauci rode the dragon of a novel coronavirus pandemic that was leaving piles of bodies in Italy, India, and New York. He served as the interface between scientists, government, and the public, all while learning about the virus in real-time. Like any good public health communicator, he sought to save lives using the best available knowledge. Like any good scientist, he kept an open mind about what was not yet known.
But the pandemic-grievance industry made him the face of a conspiracy theory. Did he cause a catastrophically deadly pandemic, decimate American freedoms, or ruin the economy over a largely harmless flu? Today we discuss the release of his “diaries” and tune into last week's Senate hearings, where crackpots bullied, berated, and slandered the 85-year old public servant.
Interview:
Saturday, August 8, 2026
Friday, August 7, 2026
Hellbent on putting Fauci in jail, Rand Paul wants to skip a Senate vote - POLITICO
“This is just another example of boys gone wild, tearing loose from the mores of procedure, regular order, constitutional doctrine to vindicate some political vendetta,” Brand said. “And it’s going to fail like all the others have failed.”…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/06/rand-paul-anthony-fauci-covid-contempt-01027906
The Fauci Witch Hunt: Accountability or Political Theater? (Dr. Zachary Rubin; From Bench to Bedside podcast and YouTube, episode #16)
Dr. Anthony Fauci recently invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times during a contentious Senate hearing about the COVID-19 pandemic. Does that suggest wrongdoing—or has one scientist become a convenient scapegoat for an extraordinarily complex global crisis?
In this episode of From Bench to Bedside, Dr. Melanie Matheu and Dr. Zachary Rubin examine Fauci’s scientific legacy, the mistakes made during the pandemic, and the difference between legitimate criticism and political theater.
We discuss:
• Why no single person controlled America’s pandemic response
• What public-health officials got wrong about masks and messaging
• The vaccine reactions Zach actually encountered in clinical practice
• Fauci’s complicated but consequential role during the HIV/AIDS crisis
• The evidence surrounding a laboratory leak versus natural spillover
• What gain-of-function research actually means
• Why lockdowns were intended to prevent hospitals from collapsing
• How social-media misinformation overwhelmed public-health communication
• What we should be learning before the next pandemic arrives
The COVID-19 response deserves serious, evidence-based scrutiny. But meaningful accountability requires examining the entire system—not blaming every national, state, local, hospital, school, and law-enforcement decision on one person.
*CHAPTERS*
00:00 – We’re back—and there is a lot to discuss
02:24 – Fauci’s Senate testimony and the Fifth Amendment
04:05 – Fauci’s background in science and medicine
06:55 – Pandemic decisions were a team effort
11:18 – The personal and emotional toll of COVID-19
13:38 – COVID vaccine adverse events explained
17:15 – Fauci, HIV/AIDS, and changing scientific evidence
21:10 – Masks, shortages, and failed public messaging
25:55 – The lab-leak hypothesis versus natural spillover
29:08 – What gain-of-function research actually means
33:35 – Why pandemic preparedness still matters
35:18 – Why hospitals overflowed and lockdowns occurred
38:02 – Social-media misinformation and collapsing trust
40:34 – The pandemic’s lasting impact on patients and clinicians
42:25 – What history should remember about the response
43:28 – Cyclospora and upcoming episodes
In this episode of From Bench to Bedside, Dr. Melanie Matheu and Dr. Zachary Rubin examine Fauci’s scientific legacy, the mistakes made during the pandemic, and the difference between legitimate criticism and political theater.
We discuss:
• Why no single person controlled America’s pandemic response
• What public-health officials got wrong about masks and messaging
• The vaccine reactions Zach actually encountered in clinical practice
• Fauci’s complicated but consequential role during the HIV/AIDS crisis
• The evidence surrounding a laboratory leak versus natural spillover
• What gain-of-function research actually means
• Why lockdowns were intended to prevent hospitals from collapsing
• How social-media misinformation overwhelmed public-health communication
• What we should be learning before the next pandemic arrives
The COVID-19 response deserves serious, evidence-based scrutiny. But meaningful accountability requires examining the entire system—not blaming every national, state, local, hospital, school, and law-enforcement decision on one person.
*CHAPTERS*
00:00 – We’re back—and there is a lot to discuss
02:24 – Fauci’s Senate testimony and the Fifth Amendment
04:05 – Fauci’s background in science and medicine
06:55 – Pandemic decisions were a team effort
11:18 – The personal and emotional toll of COVID-19
13:38 – COVID vaccine adverse events explained
17:15 – Fauci, HIV/AIDS, and changing scientific evidence
21:10 – Masks, shortages, and failed public messaging
25:55 – The lab-leak hypothesis versus natural spillover
29:08 – What gain-of-function research actually means
33:35 – Why pandemic preparedness still matters
35:18 – Why hospitals overflowed and lockdowns occurred
38:02 – Social-media misinformation and collapsing trust
40:34 – The pandemic’s lasting impact on patients and clinicians
42:25 – What history should remember about the response
43:28 – Cyclospora and upcoming episodes
Interview:
Wednesday, August 5, 2026
Did Fauci’s private diary entries contradict his public stances on lab leak, masks, school closures? – PolitiFact
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., released more than a thousand pages of Fauci’s private COVID-era writings, providing a glimpse into Fauci’s thoughts on the pandemic response. On July 29, as senators questioned him on supposed discrepancies, Fauci took the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times.
We examined claims that said Fauci contradicted himself on issues of COVID-19’s origins, school closures and mask mandates. Fauci’s diary entries revealed that he deliberated the developing information, and that his private stances largely aligned with what he said publicly…
https://politifact.com/article/2026/aug/03/fauci-diary-lab-leak-masks-school-closures/
Sunday, August 2, 2026
Weekly Roundup: Fauci McCarthyism, Elon's Revenge Porn Lawsuit, Trump Africa AI Scandal (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)
On the Weekly Roundup, Brad Onishi and Dan Miller breakdown three stories:
1. The GOP pursuit of Anthony Fauci over COVID era decisions and funding.
1. The GOP pursuit of Anthony Fauci over COVID era decisions and funding.
2. A new poll that shows 66% of MAGA supporters would continue to push for a candidate accused of sexual assault + Elon Musk's lawsuit against a law that bans nudifying AI.
3. The State Department's humiliating mistake in using an error-filled AI-generated map of Africa.
The thesis: You can't have democracy without shared facts, shared reality, and universal accountability.
(00:00) – Introduction and technological mishaps
(01:03) – The significance of shared facts and democracy
(04:12) – Democracy, truth, and trust: Maria Ressa’s insights
(08:39) – McCarthyism and the obsession with prosecuting Fauci
(12:14) – GOP's distraction tactics: From Fauci to election interference
(14:47) – The decline of literacy and its societal consequences
(19:23) – The post-literate society and the rise of influencers over facts
(22:46) – The crisis of accountability and the patriarchal narrative
(27:00) – Support for scandal-ridden politicians among GOP voters
(35:52) – The monstrous support for domestic abusers in politics
(44:42) – The suppression of free inquiry and Western civilization myths
(50:04) – AI, geography errors, and neglect of global health issues
(52:47) – Musk, deepfakes, and the devaluation of human life
(56:38) – Hope amid chaos: Reflections on political resilience and potential for change
The thesis: You can't have democracy without shared facts, shared reality, and universal accountability.
(00:00) – Introduction and technological mishaps
(01:03) – The significance of shared facts and democracy
(04:12) – Democracy, truth, and trust: Maria Ressa’s insights
(08:39) – McCarthyism and the obsession with prosecuting Fauci
(12:14) – GOP's distraction tactics: From Fauci to election interference
(14:47) – The decline of literacy and its societal consequences
(19:23) – The post-literate society and the rise of influencers over facts
(22:46) – The crisis of accountability and the patriarchal narrative
(27:00) – Support for scandal-ridden politicians among GOP voters
(35:52) – The monstrous support for domestic abusers in politics
(44:42) – The suppression of free inquiry and Western civilization myths
(50:04) – AI, geography errors, and neglect of global health issues
(52:47) – Musk, deepfakes, and the devaluation of human life
(56:38) – Hope amid chaos: Reflections on political resilience and potential for change
Interview:
Thursday, July 30, 2026
Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment in Rand Paul Senate hearing : NPR
A spokesperson for Fauci sent a document fact-checking Paul's claims and a letter written by Fauci's legal team to Paul last month. In that letter, Fauci's lawyers wrote Paul was waging a "years-long public crusade" against Fauci.
"You are single-mindedly fixating on seeing Dr. Fauci prosecuted for imaginary crimes, and you are so invested in that outcome that you have created a personal brand around it," says the letter, which NPR reviewed…
Anthony Fauci’s high-profile Senate hearing: what we learned
Canceling grants based on political priorities, trialled at the National Institutes of Health in 2025, are now the basis of a proposed rule that would bring the $1tn entire federal grant-making apparatus under the control of political appointees.
Wednesday’s hearing was another example of how criticizing scientists has become an important outlet for the party – and where relitigating the Covid crisis justifies skepticism of a broad range of science.
“For the past 18 months, the Trump administration has been engaged in a campaign to rewrite this history,” said Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat of Connecticut, about the darkest days of the pandemic, when hospitals overflowed and researchers worked on hyper-speed to understand the virus. “Today’s proceeding, I fear, is part of that effort.”…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/29/anthony-fauci-senate-covid-hearing-takeaways
Trump administration needs to stop ‘public harassment’ of Fauci and scientists, open letter says
More than 155 scientists, physicians and public health advocates have called for an end to what they describe as the “vilification and harassment of many American scientists” by the Trump administration and its allies...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/28/trump-administration-fauci-scientists
Anthony Fauci to face grilling from Senate Republicans on Covid pandemic
While Republicans have characterized their work as investigating “the origins of Covid-19 and risky taxpayer-funded life science research”, scientists have characterized Paul’s investigation as “vilification and harassment” of Fauci, who led Niaid for 38 years before retiring in 2022...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/29/anthony-fauci-senate-hearing-covid
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
Fauci expressed disillusionment with ‘rambling, crazy’ Trump in journal
In October 2020, Fauci wrote: “As the [presidential] election nears, the cases increase and surges are inevitable as we enter cooler weather. Trump is on the campaign trail spewing nonsense. He is really out of control. A true embarrassment.” By March 2021, having watched Trump attempt to retain power despite electoral defeat in a way that reminds him “historically of Hitler”, Fauci writes: “He is truly an obnoxious adolescent.”…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/27/anthony-fauci-trump-covid-journal
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Justice Department accuses former Fauci adviser of concealing communications related to COVID research | PBS News
The indictment reflects Republicans' long-held belief that the federal government covered up key information about COVID-19 as the pandemic unfolded. Despite numerous probes, the origins of COVID have never been proven. Scientists are unsure whether the virus jumped from an animal, as many other viruses have, or came from a laboratory accident. A U.S. intelligence analysis released in 2023 said there is insufficient evidence to prove either theory...
Thursday, December 5, 2024
Biden White House Weighs Preemptive Pardons for Potential Trump Targets - POLITICO
The deliberations touch on pardoning those currently in office, elected and appointed, as well as former officials who've angered Trump and his loyalists.
Those who could face exposure include such members of Congress' Jan. 6 Committee as Sen.-elect Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming. Trump has previously said Cheney "should go to Jail along with the rest of the Unselect Committee!" Also mentioned by Biden's aides for a pardon is Anthony Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who became a lightning rod for criticism from the right during the Covid-19 pandemic...
Saturday, November 30, 2024
Epistemology Test: Anthony Fauci Edition • Richard Carrier Blogs
Anyone who thinks Anthony Fauci is "a fraud" has a broken epistemology.
You have selected to respect dogmatism and disrespect the scientific method; you have failed to fact-check your own assumptions about timelines and the content of actual statements made; you have selectively ignored things that actually were or weren't said; you've conflated different things as the same one thing, and conveniently in just such a way as supports rather than tests your presuppositions; and you have preferred your own emotionally satisfying narrative to anything resembling a reality-based belief-system (the signature of all tinfoil hat).
I have seen this pattern in many other people and groups, who think (even boast!) that they are reasoning rationally but are actually reasoning illogically, often in wilful ignorance of the actual facts (exhibiting even a persistent disinterest in actually fact-checking anything they feel should be true), and all quite in slavery to their emotions, letting their desires and preferences and assumptions dictate their perceptions and inferences, and letting their anger or embarrassment or pride steer them away from ever fixing their epistemology or ever paying attention to the actual evidence and arguments presented for any position they dislike.
Please stop. Get on the rope ladder. Climb out of that trap. Your whole life and the whole world will be better for it.
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
”Crimes Against Humanity”? A Defense of Dr. Anthony Fauci (Seth Andrews; The Thinking Atheist podcast)
In the minds of many, immunologist and public health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci has become an enemy of the people. Who is this man, and what is driving public hatred toward him?
Interview:
Thursday, June 6, 2024
MTG Gets Scolded To Her Face By REPUBLICANS
Georgia Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene faced criticism from a fellow Republican lawmaker for her remarks on Monday during a congressional hearing on the COVID-19 pandemic where she questioned Dr. Anthony Fauci. Greene, known for her vocal criticism of Fauci, engaged in a contentious line of questioning during the House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing on the origins of COVID-19 and the federal response to the pandemic.
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