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Rand Paul nails Fauci for lying to Congress

1. pedro_deleon says:

   July 20, 2021 - 2:55 pm at 2:55 pm

   So the battle here was ….
   Fauci denies lying about NIH not funding GOF. Paul asserts definition was met, and its a felony to lie to Congress. Fauci does not accept conclusion based on review (by bought and paid for underlings?) as to whether grant funded GOF.

   Then Fauci assets Paul is lying, or misleading … by suggesting that this GOF research led to the outbreak. Paul agrees that GOF ties to outbreak are not proven, but that is merely a potential consequence of the research.

   Sure seems likely to most people, Fauci is somehow trying to weasel his way out of culpability for steering this work that plainly meets the “common sense” definition of GOF.

   • Karl says:

     July 20, 2021 - 7:41 pm at 7:41 pm

     I could barely do it. However I predicted to myself that the main party-line propaganda (“media”) sources would present the matter differently. I went to the huffpo to check my hypothesis. Sure enough, with a very few bits from Paul sprinkled in–
     ‘Dr. Anthony Fauci gave Sen. Rand Paul a stern dressing-down…’
     ‘”…You do not know what you are talking about, OK?” said Fauci, who has helmed the NIH for more than 35 years.’*
     ‘The Republican senator, however, had misinterpreted the scientific paper he held up as evidence, Fauci told him.
     “This paper that you are referring to was judged by qualified staff up and down the chain as not being gain of function,” Fauci stated clearly before being interrupted repeatedly by Paul.
     “…if you look at those viruses, and that’s judged by qualified virologists and evolutionary biologists, those viruses are molecularly impossible to result in SARS-CoV-2”

     The Science as presented by a scholar versus a nasty senator.

     (*Karl note: Francis Collins is head of NIH, but what is the necessity of facts when Dr Fauci and The Science are being deployed.)

     • Karl says:

       July 20, 2021 - 7:46 pm at 7:46 pm

       I think it is good to put ourselves in the position of people who get no input other than from TV or the strictly channeled internet media – or social contacts with similar inputs. If we read article after article about The World’s Greatest Expert and head/nonhead of NIH looking wise and patient (as he lies viciously through his teeth, as usual) and get no other input, that is what we believe. In some ways we can’t be blamed. We have been brought up to live in this make-believe world that is all too real.

       I then think that we — we readers of this site — should wonder whether we are being played in subtler ways. It can happen. Some other time I may comment.

       • Kewl2 says:

         July 20, 2021 - 9:57 pm at 9:57 pm

         Karl — it’s important to stay vigilant from all directions. I would be interested in your observations!