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Posted on 08/03/2026 7:06:52 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The news this past week has been filled by Rand Paul’s Senate hearings exposing the extent of the scientific fraud perpetrated by ex-NIAID Director Anthony Fauci in the matter of Covid-19. First Paul released Fauci’s “diaries,” otherwise known as personal musings recorded in various places on the government’s servers. Then Fauci was compelled to testify, whereupon he invoked his Fifth Amendment privilege more than 100 times and never provided a word of substantive testimony.
However, the diaries on their face revealed numerous instances where Fauci’s public statements were blatant deceptions. As just one example, on January 20, 2020, Fauci wrote "Now we know the market was not the source [of the virus], it was the amplifier." But even as he admitted that in private, he was going to extraordinary lengths in public to cover up that conclusion, apparently in order to deflect blame from himself for having funded the research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology that actually unleashed the pandemic. Among other things, Fauci induced the writing of papers to promote the theory that the virus arose in the Wuhan wet market — a theory he knew was wrong. From Matt Ridley, writing in Spiked on July 31:
[A] week [after his January 20, 2020 entry, Fauci] convened a group of 12 scientists, most of whom thought it possible, perhaps even probable, that the virus had been engineered in a laboratory, to discuss their concerns. He then tasked four of the fairly junior ones in the meeting (a fifth author joined later), some of whom depended on grants from his agency, to write a paper, ‘The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2’. This paper outright dismissed the possibility of a lab leak as the origin of Covid. He and Jeremy Farrar, the then director of the Wellcome Trust, edited and promoted the publication of that paper. Fauci then disguised his own role in doing so. . . .
Similar levels of deception characterized everything about Fauci’s Covid-19 regime, from the promotion of lockdowns, to masking, to mandatory vaccination, and more. Dissenters were silenced and ostracized. The overall cost of the deceptions reaches easily into the multiple trillions of dollars. As the level of blatant deceptions has been revealed, millions of people have realized that official government “science” cannot be trusted to any degree. As likely as not, it is no more than a convenient cover story to justify protecting or enriching the politically powerful interests of the moment. As the amount of government funding backing a particular “scientific” narrative rises, and reaches into the hundreds of billions and even trillions of dollars, the likelihood that that narrative can be trusted declines until it approaches zero.
So therefore keep in mind that the Covid-19 “science” narrative is not the only recent narrative cloaked with the mantle of “science” that has been showered with government funding into the multi-trillions of dollars. There is a second. That second narrative is the “climate” scare — that is, the claim that human use of hydrocarbon fuels and release of CO2 and other “greenhouse gases” into the atmosphere is leading to some kind of existential climate crisis.
Is there any reason to believe that the still ongoing climate scare narrative is any more trustworthy than the Covid-scare narrative has proven to have been? Both have been backed by a vast research apparatus, almost entirely government funded, which looks to lose most of its funding and associated careers and promotions and prestige if there really is no underlying existential crisis.
Fauci’s disgrace came from a world of perverse incentives. His goal as a public servant should have been to get the public through the pandemic with the least possible death, costs and inconveniences. But his personal fame, funding and wealth could be maximized by exaggerating the danger of the virus, deflecting away from himself the blame for the origins of the problem, and demanding sacrifices from the public in the form of lockdowns, masking or the like.
Very comparable perverse incentives bear on the “climate scientists” who continually proclaim a climate crisis and demand sacrifices from the public. Without a manufactured crisis, there is no need at all for 95% of them. In my recent post on the litigation concerning the Endangerment Finding, check out the list of some of the dozens of organizations trying to preserve this underlying basis for hundreds of billions of dollars of government funding, supposedly to “solve” the climate crisis.
In fact, we’ve known at least since the Climategate emails were released from the University of East Anglia way back in 2009 that the whole climate scare has been characterized by data manipulation, orthodoxy enforcement and suppression of dissent. Fauci’s embarrassment from his conduct as to Covid-19 serves as a timely reminder to remain skeptical at all times about government-funded science, and even more so when the money involved reaches into the trillions.
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Not ALL the things that the media pushed were bad.
The fact is that people used to throw trash on the ground and out their car windows much more than they currently do.
I live on a country through road between two towns.
I pick up roadside trash all the time. I did just Saturday morning.
There are the typical kids/young people drinking and driving who throw out nips, cheap beer cans, etc.
However, there are some people who constantly throw beer cans out of their vehicles when they drive by.
This used to be pretty normal throughout the entire country.
Now, it is NOT normal. Mostly, because IF you LITTER society does not tolerate it like we did 50 years ago.
Laws changed to make our environment CLEANER.
We used to find pop tops/can tabs all the time. Now, almost never.
So, NOT every part of the “environmental movement” was bad.
Correct.
The one association with so-called “second hand smoke” that holds up is asthma in children whose parents smoke.
Of course, correlation is not causation, smoking is overwhelmingly a lower class behavior and lower class living standards also predispose to asthma and other childhood illnesses.
Yes, that was Gawd’s personal message to YOU that your time has come.
Of course, a god’s rate of time is different that a mote of dust like you.
:)
Good article - we should ALWAYS be extremely skeptical anytime anyone says that something is “settled science.” The fact is that the scientific method says that NOTHING is settled - every theory and thesis is subject to challenge and investigation, and it is important to do so because human beings are corrupt, seek glory and seek control over others (Fauci being the present prime example of these human failings).
WRT Faux-Chi, he was pardoned (let’s assume legitimacy for now) - which means that he cannot be prosecuted on a federal level for whatever he criminally did up until the pardon was issued...which, in turn, means that he simply CANNOT invoke the 5th Amendment in testimony before Congress or in a court proceeding. His invocation of the 5th Amendment to avoid testifying is nothing less than Contempt of Congress, and he needs to go to jail for doing so.
Karry Mullis once described in detail how Fauci did the same thing with HIV. Turned it into a billion dollar pharma windfall by purposely ignoring the non-woke science that buggering your neighbor was not a healthy thing to do.
Manhattan Contrarian ping
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Hey - Anybody click on his website or do you just read the FR page?
I ping his website, hey may get paid for it and he is readable and reasonable - not inflaming passions or the usual “Stuff”.
In general he’s a Good Read.
The interesting thing about asthma is that the proportion of cases seems to have exploded in the 90s, which is the decade where smoking bans were implemented.
Not so many cases of asthma from kids up to the 70s when so many people smoked.
It seems that the fewer smokers there are, the more asthma cases there are, which makes me think it has nothing to do w/smoke.
The more I read about Fauxci the more I wonder about not just the Covid vaxx but all vaccines. Who knows what kind of dubious research went into them? Fauxci isn’t an outlier; there are many like him in the American medical system, like Johanna Olson-Kennedy, who silenced any studies that didn’t show a benefit to transing kids.
You need to recycle, stop using ozone killing hair spray, drive a Prius, now an EV, don’t smoke, don’t use fossil fuels, eat Dolphin safe tuna, don’t wear fur, don’t eat meat, cows farts are bad, coal burning is bad but natural gas is good until is it now bad too, hydro electric dams are good except the salmon can not swim upstream to spawn so they now need to be removed from the rivers, NO NUKES, etc, etc.
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Hoo Boy - Your paranoia is well-developed (grin). I’m in, except for the Prius.
Aunt has one, had to drive me and her from Wichita KS down to Marietta GA and back in it. Nice running car, reasonably comfy, reasonable power, “charges” in five minutes.
Have you considered public cameras, merchant category codes, other privacy violations?
I find a good whiskey and some music relaxing. Whatever your favorite poison is of course.
Take Care, and Don’t Let The Bastards Get You Down.
Francis Menton is a very successful lawyer.
He doesn't have any ads and doesn't accept donations.
If you read it at his site it will show up as more traffic and he might feel he is not wasting his time.
Francis Menton is a very successful lawyer.
Didn’t know that - Thanks
He doesn’t have any ads and doesn’t accept donations.
Finally read the sidebar....
If you read it at his site it will show up as more traffic and he might feel he is not wasting his time.
I’ll keep clicking. He’s worth the read.
On my last two business trips I had a Toyota Camry Hybrid. By far the best vehicle I have driven in a long time for a rental car.
I also drove a Mazda CX-90 SUV and a Hundai Sonatta. A couple years back a had a Dodge Challenger. A beautiful car to look at, but it was not impressive to drive. Of course, it was not a Hellcat. I had a Mustang when the new ones came out about 15 years ago. That was a fun car to drive at the time.
I think the newest Prius actually look pretty cool.
Francis J. Menton, Jr. is a partner in the Litigation Department and Co-Chair of the Business Litigation Practice Group of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York. Mr. Menton specializes in complex and technical commercial litigation, principally contract and securities claims. He has a nationwide trial practice, and has tried cases in state and federal courts including Colorado, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Puerto Rico, Texas, Virginia, and Washington.
1975, Harvard Law School, J.D.
1972, Yale University, B.A. [Mathematics]
Add the everyone is equally at risk of AIDS. Fauci directed that multi-trillion dollar scam.
they did 3 studies
the first two included family history and were inconclusive
the 3rd did not include family history and they got the results they wanted
that is how govt does science
I think we called it Conservation back then.
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