The Senate oversight hearing of Dr Anthony Fauci last week offered a rare and bracing spectacle: a man once hailed as the embodiment of scientific authority (“I am the science”) reduced to invoking the Fifth Amendment more than a hundred times. The immediate catalyst was the release, days earlier by Republican Senator Rand Paul, of over a thousand pages of Fauci’s personal diary covering the pandemic years. Those entries, near-daily jottings of a public official at the height of his influence, contradict much of what he told the American people and Congress about masks, school closures, infection fatality rates and the origins of the virus itself. What had been presented as settled science now appears as a series of improvisations, self-promotions and strategic omissions.
Fauci’s private record versus public assurances
Consider the school closures that scarred a generation of children with learning losses estimated in years rather than months. In 2022 interviews Fauci insisted he had “nothing to do” with them. Yet a March 15th 2020 diary entry, emblazoned “BIG DAY!” in red ink, records how he “convinced” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to close the city’s schools “based on what I was saying publicly and my conversation tonight”. The same day he spoke with Ann O’Leary, chief of staff to California Governor Gavin Newsom. Newsom, Fauci noted, “decided to close the schools in California as well as the bars and restaurants” on the strength of the doctor’s television appearances. Later entries show Fauci urging delays
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The weird part, for me, was the utter, blatant nonsense spouted by Fauci and Walensky, when they were telling the world (with no backup data) that the vaxes would be a dead-end for the virus (Fauci) and that if you got vaxed, you wouldn’t get, or spread, the virus (Walensky).
I looked on in amazement, as the mass media swallowed (and repeated) this guff, with never a question as to how those statements could be validated.
It was around then that I realised that Science had pretty much passed away, killed by charlatans.
Excellent article. Thank you.
A great article that should be widely published (but won’t be).
“Similar treatment was meted out to the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration and to countless physicians and scientists who questioned the Covid lockdown and ‘climate emergency’ orthodoxies”.
Drs. Jay Battacharya and Kuldorff are now employed as high ranking medical advisors in the USA’s NIH and HHS, under the direction of RFK. Drs. Robert Malone, Marty Makary, Vinay Prasad were brought in by RFK as well, but have since gone back to their previous work. And today a senate will decide whether or not to charge Anthony fauci with contempt for pleading the fifth over 100 times in a senate subcommittee last week.
I do not see any similar attempts in the UK to bring in medical experts and others such as Drs Aseem Malhotra, Angus Dagliesh, Tess Lawrie, Thomas Jefferson, Carl Heneghan, Norman Fenton who have all questioned the covid lockdown, covid treatment and the ‘safe and effective” mRNA covid vaccines. Why do you think that is.
RCP8.5 is dead – long live RCP8.5!
The extreme scaremongering of the mainstream media continues regardless…
The thing about TRUTH is that it does not go away. It sits there waiting eventually to be found.
The key to undermining the madness of anthropogenic climate change and COVID+19 is achieving better evidence based science. This article on the transmission and severity of COVID-19 and influenza is a good starting point: https://substack.com/@stephen938/note/p-204407262?r=16e1vo
They have all been at it “misrepresentation” throughout the existence of the Climate scare. Here are just a few blatant examples.
https://edmhdotme.wpcomstaging.com/climate-driven-noble-cause-corruption-goes-back-a-way/
I hate knowing I’ve been lied to.
Thanks for the link – well done.
My guess is that most people don’t know what happened to Fauci last week, apart from some in the USA.
I am getting more pessimistic about any accountability.
The deafening silence and gaslighting by MSM and governments means that people don’t get to know the nuance.
As to Fauci, I think he is a coward. He has a presidential pardon, so the right thing to do would be to say ‘sorry, I got that wrong’.
Today there will be a vote on Fauci’s contempt of congress. See where that goes.
Yes. Whenever I have mentioned Fauci to friends they have questioned who he is. Most people don’t look at the polictics in the USA and the only thing they can state for sure is that Trump is President – then they are so woefully ignorant that they go along with all the lies that are told about him.
Even our heavily jab-pushing GP (another UK expat) had apparently (ahem!) never heard of him. She is still jabbing.
The latest Fauci diary revelations indicate that he was concerned that the emergence of the Omicron variant, with its mutated spike protein, would mean that the m-RNA vaccines developed to produce the original spike would not work. He then concealed this, despite concluding it very soon after the vaccines were launched. Any knowledgable clinician could have told him this, and on the basis that viral mutation almost invariably results in reducing serious consequences he might have asked himself whether continuing a vaccine program was necessary. I pointed out years back that if spike variants did not induce a cytokine storm, but vaccines based on a highly provocative spike did, then the vaccines would be more dangerous than infection. I cannot decide whether Fauci’s main fault was stupidity per se, or stupidity in persisting with covering up.
Thank goodness for Tilak Doshi, who is a master of facts, and extremely articulate in presenting them, whether about Covid, Climate or Ukraine – the three intensely censored subjects in our current affairs, where institutional capture is rock-solid.
We truly live in what the Russians now call the “Empire of Lies” (echoing Reagan’s epithet of the USSR as the “Evil Empire”). But I would say more: we live in the Empire of Lies AND CENSORSHIP”.
I have been taking interest in political matters for decades now, and have never, ever known, in Britain, the intense level of lies and censorship which pervades our political & media class, our academia, our police and judiciary. The word “Evil” is no exaggeration, no exaggeration whatsoever.
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood,
but against principalities, against powers,
Against the rulers of darkness in this world,
Against spiritual wickedness in high places“
… and still nobody goes to gaol or better still, the gallows.
THIS is the most egregious injustice of all.
As proven in the book ‘The Real Anthony Fauci’ by RFK Jr this character is responsible for thousands of deaths caused by his wrong treatments and choice of drugs and vaccines with which he was commercially Involved or where backing big pharma.
But why is it that other chief medical officers are also so useless and cause death and injury to so many patients? Recently the US CMO gave evidence in the Senate when it became obvious that she did not know the details of the mRNA vaccines action in cells despite having backed compulsory vaccination.
In the UK Chris Dimwhitty overrode the vaccine committee and authorised the vaccination of children despite minimal risk to them and no evidence that this prevented infection of ‘granny’. And the CMOs of Scotland and Wales joined him, resulting in hundreds of cases of myocarditis.
You can make an argument that the ‘neoliberal global elite” have worked very hard to make the world their empire.
And what better way is there to maintain their position at the top that than by adopting hobgoblins to frighten the masses?
Fortunately the time taken to pull back the curtain on these hobgoblins is getting shorter and shorter in our digital world. No wonder The Powers That Be want to control Free Speech.
I think the truth is already out with “covid” – in fact it has been out since the start. But very few people want to listen to it, for various reasons.
Very few people are willing to admit they were wrong, even fewer are willing to admit how stupid they were falling for all propaganda.
I’m sure the majority of people just want to pretend the whole fiasco never happened. It’s generally only the vaccine injured/relatives of people killed by the vaccines and people who were vilified at the time, whether academics who’s career may of been damaged because they spoke the truth, or ordinary people who got loads of abuse, either online or in person for not following the rules, who want the truth to be far more widely known.
Several people I know who were rather unkind to me when I opposed the restrictions are now convinced that they were always sceptical. They always thought closing schools was a bad idea, they were always concerned about the long-term effects of lockdowns, etc. It’s galling. I spent years being refused entry to public places, getting dirty looks and unpleasant comments because I didn’t have a barcode and being prevented from doing my job properly, and they were nowhere to be found.
Relax in the strong probability that you will outlive them!
I like the description of these scams as Lysenkoism. When will analysis and explanation of them penetrate the rhino hide of Britain’s MSM? How long before the BBC, the Guardian, The Times et al apologise for their shameless betrayal of journalism? Any chance before I die?
No. Never. Just as the left have never acknowledged their errors in defending Communism and excusing its effects. Never.
Amen. A great article and long overdue in pointing out the parallel approaches taken by the establishment trying to control society at the expense of freedom and truth. The trust that enabled these two narratives to take place seems to be wearing thin with the general public. The repercussions will be severe and those, like the author, who knew that institutional corruption was responsible, will feel ever so slightly vindicated.
‘Judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter’.
Isaiah 59.14
I was never a religious man, and I still don’t believe in the God of the Bible, but I’ve been slowly reading through it – largely as an academic exercise. What’s struck me is the wisdom embedded within it; almost every passage has fundamental meaning. When I read many of these historical books I’m reminded of how utterly moronic and simple-minded we’ve become – no room for nuance, no room for grey, no room for opposites complementing, no room for wisdom.
I am not and have never been religious either, and struggle to comprehend “belief in God”, but surely it’s hard to deny that the Bible is a remarkable book in many ways and that the people involved in writing and translating the various versions had a way with words and a deep understanding of many things. That doesn’t mean you have to “believe” all of it or indeed any of it, but nonetheless it’s far from nonsense.
I’ve come to believe in a God, just not the God of the Bible. It might seem counterintuitive initially – as it did with me – but, once you understand and fully consider the ridiculous number of almost impossible events and coincidences that allow us to experience life (whatever this life is) then the most rational position is to believe in a creator. Science only has a single plausible (so they say) explanation for all this – the multiverse. And what is more likely? That there are an infinite number of universes or there’s one that we cannot comprehend the creation of? No, I have very little doubt that the scientific reductionists (e.g. Dawkins) are very, very, wide of the mark. It’s taken me a long time to get to where I am – lots of reflection, a few unexplainable experiences, and a ton of reading – but I now know the most important thing of all – that I cannot possibly know anything of consequence at all. And, contrary to my rants, I’m generally much more at peace. Generally.
I think I am in more or less the same place though I would not describe myself in believing in “a God” or “creator”. Existence, consciousness, time, beginnings and endings are all utterly incomprehensible and unexplainable, intrinsically, to my mind. We can understand more and more but we will never understand those things because they cannot ever be understood and I don’t know why anyone would want to try. Ineffable.
Quite. I think if we stop thinking about God as a bearded man donning a white cloak looking down on us, and start to comprehend that we cannot comprehend the incomprehensible, then we have a chance at understanding something – that we’ll never understand because it is beyond us. Our real foolishness starts with the enlightenment – in believing that we have the tools to unlock everything, including our very creation. We fooled ourselves into believing we were our own God. The philosophically empty rantings of people like Dawkins shows how utterly devoid of wisdom Scientism has made us – everything must be either this or it must be that, and there is no comprehension of what may lie in between or of how this and that are often complementary.
The Matter With Things (Iain McGilchrist) is the most compelling book I’ve ever read. It’s an absolute beast, penned over two volumes, but worth every minute of it. I no longer feel so unmoored after reading it.
Bit of an early morning ramble, apologies… crap, only an hour and a half before walking the dog.
Interesting- I’d not heard of him or his book, glad it was helpful to you
Most stabbed are ferociously religious.
They wanted to gas the unstabbed like me. Even worse I am White and a practicing Catholic. Obviously an idiot despite my high income.
The medical Nazis will demand the same during the next plandemic.
Many wish for a return to Rona – the ‘greatest war in man’s history’, with its death rate of 0.3%, same as the ‘flu’ whatever the hell that is, for a non-existing virus from a bat. In other fairy tales, Armstrong walked around on the moon.
Very religious indeed. The most religious people I know in fact, after the Climate Tards and Queer-Trans Tards.
Verse 15:
Truth is nowhere to be found,
and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey.
The Lord looked and was displeased
that there was no justice.
It’s worth reading the whole song/poem. It’s only 21 verses.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2059&version=NIV
Other translations are available.
If truth is to pick itself up, dust itself down and break through to the light it will not be in Britain or Europe but it does have a fighting chance of doing so under Trump’s watch.