The controversy surrounding the recently released emails of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases chief, Dr. Anthony Fauci continues to grow. With the emails revealing that the man who directed our nation s policies during the COVID pandemic was, at best, misleading, numerous members of the United States Congress are calling for his dismissal.
But criticism of Fauci has been coming from a number of leaders, even before the recent email revelations. Among those is United States Senator from Louisiana John Kennedy.
Kennedy recently questioned Dr. Fauci about whether U.S. grant money could have funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan, gain-of-function being defined as any field of medical research which alters an organism or disease in a way that increases pathogenesis or transmissibility.
Published Jun 3, 2021 Updated Jun 3, 2021, 11:18 am CDT
The release of hundreds of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s emails has caused an explosion of viral disinformation and conspiracy theories about him and COVID-19 in right-wing circles. Featured Video Hide
The emails from January through June of last year, obtained by BuzzFeed News and the
Washington Post via a Freedom of Information Act request, have inspired claims that Dr. Fauci has known since the beginning of the pandemic that China created COVID-19 as a bioweapon, that he believes masks don’t work, and baseless theories about pedophilia. Right-wing figures are cherry-picking evidence from the emails to support such theories and call for Dr. Fauci not only to lose his job, but be sent to jail.
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Is there a more vindicated man on the planet right now than Rand Paul, at least politically speaking? The Kentucky senator has been maligned by the media, used as a foil to Dr. Anthony Fauci, for months now. Every time Paul would pin down Fauci during a Senate hearing, the press would run to report it as “Fauci smashes Paul” despite that never objectively happening.
Recently, Fauci has admitted that he lied to Rand Paul about masks and gain-of-function funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Now, bombshell emails further show Paul was right all along.
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Months of emails from Dr. Anthony Fauci were released due to a FOIA request yesterday, and now they’re blowing up the internet with shocking revelations about what he knew and when he knew it.
We’re likely going to be covering the revelations for days, they’re that significant and hot. My colleague Scott Housell hit on a major one already where Dr. Peter Daszak, the EcoHealth Alliance president thanked Fauci for dismissing the Wuhan lab leak theory. My colleagues Jennifer Oliver O’Connell and Brandon Morse also hit on more this morning here and here.