Posted on 08/03/2026 3:20:08 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
As I wrote yesterday, Dr. Anthony Fauci was not the only one taking the Fifth yesterday on his record during the pandemic. The media effectively invoked the same privilege to avoid self-incrimination for their years of deifying the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Across the cable networks, hosts and guests were going into vapors as Republican senators pummelled Fauci over his COVID policies and the glaring contradictions found in his diary entries. Some, like Dr. Scott Ratzan, echoed Fauci’s own prior claim that any questioning of his judgment was an attack on science.
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Many previously echoed Fauci’s view that questioning these conclusions was an attack on science. One leading columnist wrote a piece titled “The COVID lab leak claim isn’t just an attack on science, but a threat to public health.”
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What exactly is the expertise of the media?
This is asinine, claiming that the lab-leak claim is “an assault on science” when Fauci’s own notes show that he believed it (even as he publicly denied it). So will this same duplicitous media now claim that Fauci was attacking science?
“Science” is really Scientism and needs to be assaulted.
It has become a endless series of long cons.
Is this from ‘The Bee?’ Reads like it could be. ;)
Nor should you be, as those are not “scientists”, they are Faucists.
We live in clown world these days.
Same crap they said back in 2020. Wrong then, wrong now. Fauci was not “science”, in any sense.
False narratives to help Democrats.
My friends you are free to come to the conclusion that the MSM is a bigger culprit than the doctor. The truth has now come out. Now that he’s being defended the focus should be shifted to the MSM. Kennedy Jr. is showing us the way.
False narratives to help Democrats.
Only 4.49 years left.
“The last surviving band of engineers and mechanics have formed an organisation called ‘Wings Over the World’.”
At least Pravda had an excuse. Our media is simply bought off by Big Pharma and the DNC.
Science doesn’t take the 5th.
Well, it didn’t use to.
As if any CNN dunce could past a final in any of the frosh STEM courses that I’ve taught - let those courses that turn potential STEM students into those who pursue the stuff that the CNN morons obviously took. Science is NOT their friend.
I notice a lot of bot stories with bot replies countering the lies Fauci gave us and all these people ate up and enforced.
They’re all guilty and will not admit stupidity, guilt, the evil of their madness. They can’t.
Lefties are losing it on the Aaron Rodgers interview.
Lefties are losing it on S&P 500 as well.
It’s a good start to the week. Science!
the assault on science is from those who insist that mentally ill men who “think” they are women magically become women.
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