easy victims for he/she/it.
In the case of Fauci his attention and publicity seeking is absolutely pathological.
Most 80-year old scientists would retire to their labs and conduct their research in quiet dignity. Not pose for magazine covers or become the Clown Prince of Nationals Park.
He is incapable of turning down a microphone or of not making himself the center of a story. Most disturbingly he apparently publicized the names, locations and employers of his daughters in an interview, only so that he could later go and seek more attention over the threats they’d inevitably get from a few kooks.
Putting your own family in danger in order to get more TV face time is the definition of pathological.