Posted on 01/14/2021 6:12:40 PM PST by conservative98
In 2003, terrorism was a more immediate national danger than infectious diseases. Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) had just redirected $117 million from infectious diseases to fund a new anthrax vaccine effort in response to the anthrax attacks that happened a week after 9/11.
The millions were just a small part of the $1.8 billion Fauci had poured into defense from bioterrorist attacks over the preceding two years. More than half of those funds were devoted to anthrax and smallpox alone. In 2004, Fauci launched the $5.6 billion “Project Bioshield,” the National Institutes of Health’s biggest outlay for a single research issue until then.
Some microbiology researchers at the time, however, according to the journal Nature, were concerned that Fauci’s actions would ultimately “distort priorities in infectious-disease research, sucking money away from work to understand and counter natural disease outbreaks that ultimately pose a greater threat to public health.” The 2003 Nature article cited a Stanford University microbiologist saying “that diseases such as influenza and other respiratory-tract infections routinely kill far more people than would die in a bioterrorist attack, and therefore deserve a greater share of the NIAID budget.”
The criticism turned out to be warranted. In 2007, after spending billions under the opposite premise, Fauci admitted that “at the end of the day, you’re not going to kill as many people [with an anthrax attack] as you would if you blasted off a couple of car bombs in Times Square.” His anthrax vaccine effort had failed, having been “sunk by lobbying.”
The anthrax vaccine failure followed on the heels of Fauci’s controversial leadership of the nation’s AIDS response in the 1980s and ‘90s.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
Thirty years ago, Nussbaum correctly diagnosed the primary cause of Fauci’s many setbacks:
[T]he best scientists do not become administrators. The best scientists do not become coordinators of programs for other scientists in medical schools around the country. The best scientists stay in the labs, they don’t push paper.
The disastrous Fauci you didn’t know, but Washington loves
Posted on January 14, 2021
A Short History Of How Anthony Fauci Has Kept Failing Up Since 1984
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As Nussbaum wrote in 1990:
Tony Fauci’s managerial incompetence had exacted a staggering cost. By 1987, more than a million Americans were infected by the AlDS virus. Not a single drug treatment had come out of the government’s enormous biomedical research system. In the end, Fauci barely survived by handing over control of the government’s only AIDS drug trial program [to a pharmaceutical company].
In 1988, the playwright and prominent AIDS activist Larry Kramer published an “Open Letter to Dr. Anthony Fauci” in the Village Voice, writing, in part:
You admitted that you are an incompetent idiot. Over the past four years, $374 million has been allocated for AIDS treatment research. You were in charge of spending much of that money. . . . Yet after three years you have established only a system of waste, chaos, and uselessness.
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Fauxci is a bona fide hero of some people here
Cynical take: it was Fauci’s group/lab/section that sent out the anthrax in an effort to justify themselves and get funding.
The Peter Principle at work.
“Follow the money” is the general logical process, but, for ANY of Fauci’s decisions, look at his decisions, the impact on the budget he can gain by his decisions, his power for making that decision, his praise and his “TV” appearances.
But, as pointed out elsewhere, NONE of his decisions have ever proved correct.
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The FauXi goals:
Flatten the economy.
Stop the spread of conservatism
Eliminate FREEDOM.
Did Dr. Fauci Just Admit He Lied About Covid-19 Herd Immunity To Trick Americans Into Vaccine? 12/24/2020
Fauci lied about masks ...
Dr. Fauci Made the Coronavirus Pandemic Worse by Lying About Masks 6/16/2020
Fauci lied about Hydroxychloroquine ...
Fauci lies about a lot of things ...
Deep State Doctor Fauci: Here’s A List Of Mistakes and Lies Pamela Geller - April 13, 2020
Here in Los Angeles I don’t know ANYONE who has a prayer of getting the vaccine.
Yes. He was responsible to come up with a treatment for SARS. That’s his job. It was 2004. 16 years later nothing.
His interest is conferences and third world programs.
5 Billion a year.
If he would do that kind of crap to another scientist what would make anyone think he would not do crap to President Trump and the American people?
Fauci must have been miffed when somebody else found the cure.
When the cure was needed in 2020 what did Fauci do? He got it banned.
First time a cure for a disease has been banned.
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