Tony Fauci was not indispensable. He was totally expendable, as would be anyone in that position. I think I personally know a dozen infectious diseases docs or allergy experts who could do as good a job or better as director of NIAID, and that means their are hundreds or more nationwide who could do that job just as well. Is this my nati…
Tony Fauci was not indispensable. He was totally expendable, as would be anyone in that position. I think I personally know a dozen infectious diseases docs or allergy experts who could do as good a job or better as director of NIAID, and that means their are hundreds or more nationwide who could do that job just as well. Is this my nativity? I don't think so, given he was wrong about masks, school closures, and the lab leak, pursued gain of function research even though the scientific community had been split about it. And he wildly misled the media and the American public about what the clinical trial data actually said and could not possibly say about vaccine effectiveness in 2021 and then what real life data revealed about risks versus benefit and who should and should not get boosted in late 2021 and beyond.
He might represent science to the nitwit class who never heard of the NIH or NIAID before COVID, but he was just another political appointee who managed to ingratiate himself within the Washington establishment for forty years. No small feat, but not exactly Einsteinian.
He's the science version of Chuck Schumer or Mitch McConnell, both smart enough and strategic enough to stay atop their heaps of partisan nincompoops.
Tony Fauci was not indispensable. He was totally expendable, as would be anyone in that position. I think I personally know a dozen infectious diseases docs or allergy experts who could do as good a job or better as director of NIAID, and that means their are hundreds or more nationwide who could do that job just as well. Is this my nativity? I don't think so, given he was wrong about masks, school closures, and the lab leak, pursued gain of function research even though the scientific community had been split about it. And he wildly misled the media and the American public about what the clinical trial data actually said and could not possibly say about vaccine effectiveness in 2021 and then what real life data revealed about risks versus benefit and who should and should not get boosted in late 2021 and beyond.
He might represent science to the nitwit class who never heard of the NIH or NIAID before COVID, but he was just another political appointee who managed to ingratiate himself within the Washington establishment for forty years. No small feat, but not exactly Einsteinian.
He's the science version of Chuck Schumer or Mitch McConnell, both smart enough and strategic enough to stay atop their heaps of partisan nincompoops.