Well over three years after the first recorded case of COVID-19 in the United States, Americans are still learning shocking new details about the complete lack of honesty and integrity displayed by some of the most prominent members of the scientific and medical community during the pandemic.
Paul's letter stems from a report from the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released in July which found that Fauci pressured eminent scientists to disregard their own evidence pointing to a lab leak origin of the virus.
Why would our nation's top scientists commit intentional scientific malpractice? Fauci and former NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins said in private emails they wanted to protect China and the international scientific community, with Collins fearing that "The voices of conspiracy will quickly dominate" - voices that, in the case of those arguing that the lab leak theory should be investigated, turned out to be likely correct.
These recent revelations are yet more evidence that the actions of Fauci and others throughout the pandemic were complicated by a desire to cover for themselves and their peers, not the pursuit of truth and accountability.
While congressional Republicans have rightly continued to work to reveal the truth about what Fauci knew and when, another, perhaps more concerning question is why other top scientists were so quick to capitulate to Fauci's non-scientific, political conclusions.
Nicholas Wade, the famed former editor at the New York Times, Nature Journal, and Science Journal, testified before Congress in March that our scientists' coronavirus doublespeak, at the behest of Fauci, is a symptom of a much larger problem in America's scientific research apparatus.
"Scientists," Wade said, are "Easily kept in line because of their dependence on government grants. They hesitated to dispute a position that had the backing of powerful scientific officials, such as Fauci and Francis CollinsHearing few or no dissident voices from the scientific community, the national media swallowed the natural origin story unskeptically."
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