Sen. Rand Paul Confronts Fauci Over ‘Takedown’ of Epidemiologists Who Challenged COVID Narrative
Francesco Abbruzzino, The Uncensored Report, LLC
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) once again called out White House medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci during a Senate hearing over his campaign to defame top scientists who challenged the government’s COVID policies.
“The idea that a government official like yourself would claim unilaterally to represent science, that any criticism of you would be considered a criticism of science, itself is quite dangerous,” Paul told Fauci at the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on Tuesday.
Paul then referred to an email exchange between Fauci and National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Francis Collins in which they discussed smearing a handful of top epidemiologists who challenged the government’s COVID narrative in a statement called the Barrington Declaration.
“In an email exchange with Dr. Collins, you conspire, and I quote here directly from the email, ‘to create a quick and devastating’ published ‘takedown’ of three prominent epidemiologists — from Harvard, Oxford and Stanford,” Paul noted.
“Apparently there’s a lot of ‘fringe’ epidemiologists at Harvard, Oxford, and Stanford,” Paul quipped.
“And immediately there’s this takedown effort,” he continued. “A published takedown doesn’t exactly conjure up the image of a dispassionate scientist. Instead of engaging them on the merits, you and Dr. Collins sought to smear them as fringe and take them down. And not in journals, in the lay press.”
“This is not only antithetical to the scientific method, it’s the epitome of cheap politics, and it’s reprehensible, Dr. Fauci,” he added.
Rather than addressing the facts Paul presented, Fauci responded with ad hominem attacks, and claimed Paul doesn’t have a “shred of evidence” despite reading directly from his emails.
“In usual fashion, senator, who are distorting everything about me. You keep coming back to personal attacks on me that have absolutely no relevance,” Fauci said.
Paul shot back, “You deny, you deny, but the emails tell the truth.”
Fauci then claimed to the committee that Paul was attacking him “for political reasons” and launched into a diatribe accusing Paul of making “irresponsible” statements that “kindles the crazies.”
Paul however, directed Fauci back to the facts at hand.
“You have politically attacked your colleagues, and in a politically reprehensible way you’ve attacked their reputations,” Paul pointed out.
Paul has clashed with Fauci numerous times since the COVID pandemic, which begs the question: why does Paul appear to be the only Republican senator who meaningfully confronts Fauci face to face?
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