Who Read The Real Anthony Fauci

[BarebackedBear]

I'm amazed people are still this stupid. Or maybe the real problem is after decades of this disease becoming a chronic illness more manageable than diabetes rather than the death sentence it once was has led to a state of willful ignorance. Maybe people just need a fucking history lesson.

I'm currently reading How to Survive a Plague and the reminder of people grasping at straws to find a cause for AIDS before discovery of the virus definitely puts Kennedy's asinine comments into a context many in the younger generation are missing. It wasn't poppers in 1981, it isn't poppers now.

Kennedy is the reason we're going to have to bring back the SILENCE=DEATH messaging, because staying silent about his disinformation on any number of health issues rather than calling him out is our greatest public health crisis today.

[nanana]

On 5/1/2025 at 5:55 AM, nanana said:

If you’d be willing to show us an example of how RFK Jr misinterpreted a report and how you could correctly interpret it, your insight would rise above the level of an ad hominem attack, which is a rhetorical approach people use when they put down the person without addressing the substance of the argument.

 

On 5/1/2025 at 5:55 AM, nanana said:

Since is painfully obvious to you, would you be willing to give an example?

Hi @SDCumPup,

It’s been over two weeks since you wrote your smack. 

Although there’s an off chance that you’re still polishing your response, I’m going to conclude that you really weren’t mounting a substantial argument, you were just expressing a dislike and maybe listening to your gut more than your scientific savvy. 
I ‘m a big fan of people who listen to their gut. I’m also a big fan of scientific savvy. It’s a really good idea to know oneself and the difference between gut and savvy before one picks up the pen. 

[chipygmalion80]

@nanana I've not read the book, but had read up on Fauci.

 

Fauci is both doctor and politician. Someone doesn't remain head of federal departments for decades simply because they're good at medicine.

 

It's boggling to me that folks in this thread either rush to Fauci's defense or demonize him via conspiracies. It's somewhere in the middle.

 

My bet is that Fauci gets a nice fat cut from BigPharma. Yet he also sees no moral issue with profits because he probably does believe "pills save lives". I mean ... he doesn't work for a non profit 😭

Fauci's HIV history is not stellar. He claims that his group was researching the virus. OK, why didn't Fauci push for preventatives until there was a pill?  Bush 2's AIDS awareness stuff didn't get funded until 2003! Way too late!

Frontline researchers in France and other US institutions were the real heros. Not Fauci. Those researchers moved the needle from GRID -- they "gay disease" -- to what we know about the virus today. They enabled AZT to be developed.  None of that Frontline work came from Fauci.

The problem with Fauci and COVID is where NHI funding went. Congressial testimony already dropped several breadcrumbs that US taxpayers were funding gain of function.  It's damning for Fauci because ultimately he was managing at a high level. 

 

Did Fauci directly know about Wuhan? It's hard to say via the breadcrumbs. And even if Wuhan was not the source of COVID, the gain of function funding is damning.  It's really only useful for bioweapons.  

 

Incidentally, one of the discoverers of HIV, Montagniere, also believes COVID was a lab leak.

 

So Fauci is both politician and doctor. The less we give credit to Fauci and the more to the real heros, the better.  Anyways, interesting thread. 

Edited 2 hours ago by chipygmalion80
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