Dr. Fauci won’t see you now. The man who served as America’s top medical adviser during Covid had to be subpoenaed to appear before the Senate this week. Wanted to hear his expert opinion? Too bad. Almost every question received the same response. “On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution.”
Anthony Fauci’s silence is the perfect coda to the madness of the Covid era. We were told, again and again, to “trust the science.” But the science establishment didn’t trust us. Information was withheld, facts were twisted and opinions suppressed. Fauci was given a sweeping presidential pardon by Joe Biden. Yet even now, years later and immune from consequences, Dr. Fauci doesn’t want to talk.
Fauci’s silence is the perfect coda to the madness of the Covid era
One of the central unanswered questions of the Senate hearing was about the origins of Covid-19. The lab leak theory is the most obvious example of a pernicious and politicized approach to information. We know, from reporting in The Spectator, that in January 2020 Fauci was alerted to the fact that the virus’s genetic data looked suspicious. “Some of the features (potentially) look engineered,” he was told by a California researcher with whom he was corresponding. A series of world-leading scientists told Fauci that they believed the genome was “inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory.”
