{"id":1081325,"date":"2021-12-03T16:44:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T21:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1081325"},"modified":"2021-12-03T16:44:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T21:44:32","slug":"fauci-on-his-criticism-not-running-a-popularity-contest-im-a-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fauci-on-his-criticism-not-running-a-popularity-contest-im-a-scientist\/","title":{"rendered":"Fauci on His Criticism: &#039;Not Running a Popularity Contest&#039; &#8212; &#039;I&#039;m a Scientist&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffauci-on-his-criticism-not-running-a-popularity-contest-im-a-scientist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1081325&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Angry-Fauci-1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>During a Friday interview on Fox Business Network\u2019s \u201cCavuto: Coast to Coast,\u201d&nbsp;National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Dr. Anthony Fauci addressed the change of his popularity over the course of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci pushed back against the \u201cnoise,\u201d saying he was \u201cnot running a popularity contest. The infectious disease doctor pointed out he was a scientist and his focus was public health.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><em>[Relevant portion beginning around the 13:50 mark]<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cYou know, you talk about people put data out like he\u2019s this now popularity. I\u2019m not running a popularity contest for myself. I\u2019m a physician. I\u2019m a scientist. And I\u2019m a public health person,\u201d Fauci advised. \u201cThe only thing I care about, Neil, is helping to preserve and protect the health of the American public, and indirectly in that regard since we\u2019re a leader in the world, protecting the health and the safety of the entire world because that\u2019s what we do. That\u2019s what I\u2019ve done for the 50 years I\u2019ve been a physician and for the almost 40 years that I\u2019ve been the director of the institute. So, whether people on one side or the other like me or don\u2019t like me, that\u2019s not relevant to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cWhat I do is \u2026 focus on my job, and that is to get us out of this pandemic, which has already killed 780,000 Americans. And I think all that other stuff, Neil, is noise when they say they like him, they don\u2019t like him, some people are in favor of him or not. That is really meaningless stuff. My job is the health of the American public, and that\u2019s the only thing I focus on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Trent Baker&nbsp;on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MagnifiTrent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@MagnifiTrent<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a Friday interview on Fox Business Network\u2019s \u201cCavuto: Coast to Coast,\u201d\u00a0National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Dr. Anthony Fauci addressed the change of his popularity over the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1081325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}