{"id":1635427,"date":"2022-09-07T12:35:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T16:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1635427"},"modified":"2022-09-07T12:35:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T16:35:50","slug":"ian-haworth-fauci-is-the-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ian-haworth-fauci-is-the-worst\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Haworth: Fauci Is The Worst"},"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\">12<\/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%2Fian-haworth-fauci-is-the-worst%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=1635427&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><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle\">Three reasons Fauci is just terrible.<\/h3>\n<div dir=\"auto\" class=\"body markup\">\n<p>In the sixth episode of my new show, \u201cOff Limits with Ian Haworth,\u201d we dived into the career of Dr. Anthony Fauci, and why he\u2019s far from the medical hero he claims to be.<\/p>\n<p>Full episodes are available on Sundays 9pm EST, exclusively on YouTube.<\/p>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Unlike famous doctors who save lives, like Doogie Howser, J.D., and (most of the time) House, Fauci actually deserves to be among a different crowd. Maybe more like Dr. Evil, Dr. Huxtable or Dr. Hannibal Lecter\u2026because he\u2019s done way more damage than both of them combined.<\/p>\n<p>Because Fauci is actually just\u2026terrible, for three reasons.<\/p>\n<p>First, his job throughout the pandemic was to serve as the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (or NIAID), and to be the chief medical advisor to the White House under President Donald Trump and then President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>But instead, or if we\u2019re being kind at the same time, he was catapulted to the forefront of our COVID culture, and turned into an overnight celebrity of \u201cthe science.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And my problem here is not that this happened necessarily. After all, America is obsessed with the cult of celebrity, and people are routinely pushed to the forefront of the national conversation as \u201cthe face\u201d of an issue, whether they want to or not.<\/p>\n<p>No, my problem is that Fauci \u2014 a self-proclaimed man of science, integrity and truth \u2014 embraced the celebrity.<\/p>\n<p>If anything, he fueled it.<\/p>\n<p>As the pandemic grew, so did his ego, getting to the point where the daily COVID briefings became a battle of \u201cwho thinks they\u2019re the best\u201d: Donald Trump and Fauci.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And like ER doctors and nurses who said they were being worked way too hard during the pandemic but still had time to record fully choreographed TikToks, Fauci somehow found time in his packed schedule to push his own brand.<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019m not talking about his appearances on news outlets because that\u2019s part of his job. I\u2019m talking about the hundreds of other media events which fall more into the bucket of public relations than informing the public.<\/p>\n<p>How did he have time to give lectures? Attend panel discussions? Give speeches?<\/p>\n<p>How did he have time to star in \u201cFauci,\u201d a National Geographic documentary which was filmed in secret during an ongoing global pandemic?!<\/p>\n<p>How did he have time to pose for photoshoot after photoshoot after photoshoot?<\/p>\n<p>And this was all while he was just\u2026so full of himself, even having a picture of himself on his office wall, which weirdly grows older as he gets more powerful.<\/p>\n<p>According to the mainstream media, Fauci was a beacon of truth shining through the foggy propaganda of the Trump administration, and then the ongoing semi-fascist MAGA crowd of the Biden era.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s just one problem, which brings us to the second reason Fauci is just the worst.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s terrible at his job. Because his job ended up being to spout self-aggrandizing flip-flopping platitudes to err on the side of his own safety while also taking no responsibility for the consequences.<\/p>\n<p>In the early days of COVID-19, he said that it wasn\u2019t a major threat. Then, almost overnight, he decided that it was.<\/p>\n<p>He also initially declared that Americans shouldn\u2019t wear masks, but, yet again, he flipped, arguing in favor of masks, double masking, and then full-body condoms.<\/p>\n<p>And when he was asked why Americans weren\u2019t advised to wear masks from the start, he explained that he effectively lied to protect medical supplies.<\/p>\n<p>He knew he was lying, but he did it anyway, disrespecting and manipulating the American people to, basically, play politics.<\/p>\n<p>And throughout the pandemic, Fauci kept screwing up, and kept claiming that it wasn\u2019t that he was wrong, it was just \u201cthe science\u201d that had changed.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t believe your lying eyes!<\/p>\n<p>He called for contract tracing, so the CDC dolled out 631 million dollars in April 2020, while some states spent millions of dollars developing contact tracing apps. None of it worked.<\/p>\n<p>He called for the complete shutdown of the economy and the closure of schools, leading to voluntary economic collapse and unemployment, let alone the mental health implications of forcing people in their homes for months on end.<\/p>\n<p>He dismissed calls for a nuanced or science-based approach which focused on the vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>He dismissed the idea that natural immunity existed, even though he pushed that idea at one point too.<\/p>\n<p>And all while (in private) doubting the efficacy of masks and things like asymptomatic spread.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not even like Fauci had a stellar career until COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Under his leadership, the NIAID spent billions on defense against bio-terrorist attacks, including 117 million dollars on an anthrax vaccine that never materialized, all while critics pointed out that Fauci was distorting priorities away from understanding and fighting natural disease outbreaks like influenza.<\/p>\n<p>He fought for full control of the federal government response during the HIV\/AIDS pandemic, and spent hundreds of millions of dollars on an almost tunnel-visioned approach to fighting the then-terminal illness with a vaccine. The vaccine never materialized \u2014 again \u2014 and this came at the expense of years lost researching the anti-retroviral drugs we see today which have turned HIV into a manageable condition, rather than a death sentence.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, AZT \u2014 the only AIDS treatment to come out of Fauci\u2019s federal government research empire \u2014 only appeared when the private sector got involved.<\/p>\n<p>Sound familiar?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and he also made national headlines in the 1980s when he warned that HIV could be spread by \u201croutine close contact\u201d among family members. More medical misinformation from Fauci which spread false fear and prevented a targeted focus on those most vulnerable, but helped him get more funding.<\/p>\n<p>Does that sound familiar?<\/p>\n<p>And whether it was screwing up the federal government\u2019s response to AIDS, anthrax, or COVID-19, the deepest point of Fauci\u2019s failed legacy is simple: he helped delegitimize science itself.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is that Fauci is largely responsible for a growing sentiment in the country that experts aren\u2019t experts at all.<\/p>\n<p>According to Pew Research earlier this year, only 29% of American adults said they have a great deal of confidence in medical scientists to act in the best interests of the public, down from 40% who said this in November 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Gee, I wonder why?<\/p>\n<p>It might be because Fauci had a symbiotic relationship with the press, with journalists promising Fauci they\u2019d give him favorable coverage.<\/p>\n<p>It might be because he avoided questions regarding legitimate concerns about U.S. taxpayer dollars being used to fund gain-of-function research at the virology lab in Wuhan \u2014 the fact that we give a single dollar to our enemies is a subject for another time!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It might be because, despite being a man of scientific integrity, he remained utterly silent when Democrats endorsed nationwide riots in 2020, or when children were forced to wear masks, or when schools were shut because teachers unions wanted to be paid to stay home and complain, or as vaccines were pushed on increasingly younger people despite their vanishingly small risk levels.<\/p>\n<p><span>All while Fauci rejected any criticism of authoritarian policies as ignorant anti-science propaganda. As his ego grew, he even announced that he was no longer a scientist, but <\/span><em>the science.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And why? Well, it\u2019s because Fauci is a scientist second, and a politician first. Yes, he\u2019s a public servant, but he\u2019s a public servant who serves himself before anyone or anything else.<\/p>\n<p>No-one can survive for thirty seconds in Washington, D.C. without knowing how to play the game.<\/p>\n<p>You think Fauci survived decades \u2014 and became a multi-millionaire \u2014 because he\u2019s good at playing politics?<\/p>\n<p>And COVID-19 is all the proof we need.<\/p>\n<p>Is it a coincidence that Fauci partnered with Deborah Birx and Robert Redfield following the failed AIDS vaccine project to exploit a relationship that lasted for years, agreeing to resign if one of them was fired, and promising to never disagree with each other publicly, such as refusing to acknowledge evidence that lockdowns and mask mandates weren\u2019t working.<\/p>\n<p>All while his objective changed depending on who was in office.<\/p>\n<p>Under Trump, he knew that his role was to simultaneously combat COVID-19 and the Republican administration. Under Biden, his role changed to helping the Democrat administration \u201cmove on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And the mainstream media \u2014 who are part of this institutional apparatus \u2014 helped at every step along the way.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of whether masks worked or didn\u2019t work, or whether any other science \u201cchanged,\u201d his constant politically-helpful flip-flopping created and fueled mistrust and confusion, made worse by his arrogant sneering at the legitimate questions of frustrated American citizens whose lives were being ruined by his nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>But moving the goal-posts was part of Fauci\u2019s entire strategy to keep himself in a position of supposed authority, saying that he changed his public viewpoint based on quote, his gut feeling that the country is finally ready to hear what he really thinks.<\/p>\n<p>They think you\u2019re stupid. That\u2019s the takeaway here. They know what\u2019s best for you, even if you can\u2019t see it. And it just so happens that what\u2019s best for you is also what\u2019s best for them. How convenient.<\/p>\n<p>The reason Fauci is the worst is because he\u2019s indicative of everything that is wrong with our \u201cexpert\u201d class.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not about science, or truth, or understanding, but power. Our expert class is no longer populated by actual experts, because they are still largely driven by the pursuit of truth.<\/p>\n<p>And in today\u2019s society, truth is a bad word.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, our experts are politicians in lab coats. People who would blow their nose on the truth if it meant more power or more money or more influence.<\/p>\n<p>And Fauci is the worst of them all.<\/p>\n<div id=\"youtube2-vllm7FBCcgE\" class=\"youtube-wrap\" data-attrs=\"{\" videoId><\/div>\n<div class=\"subscription-widget-wrap\">\n<div class=\"subscription-widget show-subscribe\">\n<div class=\"preamble\">\n<p>This is a reader-supported publication. 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