{"id":553666,"date":"2021-06-05T13:48:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T17:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=553666"},"modified":"2021-06-05T14:20:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T18:20:15","slug":"rubio-biden-should-follow-science-fire-dr-fauci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rubio-biden-should-follow-science-fire-dr-fauci\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio: Biden Should &#039;Follow Science,&#039; Fire Dr. Fauci"},"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\">16<\/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%2Frubio-biden-should-follow-science-fire-dr-fauci%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=553666&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\/06\/GetFile-251.aspx\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>In the wake of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/20793561-leopold-nih-foia-anthony-fauci-emails\">released emails <\/a>to and from the top U.S. Infectious Disease Expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is asking President Joe Biden to \u201cfollow the science\u201d and fire him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFauci is exploiting his position in government \u2014 and his ill-deserved positive reputation in the liberal media \u2014 to willfully misrepresent what is meant by a lab leak, conflating it with a biological weapons program (which is just one possible motive for gain-of-function research in Wuhan). That, or he is showing his age,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rubio.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm?p=Press-Releases&#038;id=6C6D3492-3DD7-492B-8F47-1A4C78BCFB19\">Rubio said in a column<\/a> published Saturday. \u201cDuring the campaign, Biden said, \u2018I&#8217;ll choose science over fiction.\u2019 Now is his chance to make good on that promise and fire Dr. Fauci.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The more than 800 emails from early in the pandemic, were released due to a freedom of information request by Buzzfeed and show Fauci making contradictory statements and opinions from what he was saying to the nation publicly at the time.<\/p>\n<p>In those emails, Fauci expressed an open mind about the theory that the virus came from a leak at a Wuhan virology lab, while publicly dismissing the possibility when testifying in front of a Senate Committee under questioning by Rubio last month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ilt_NcaIIRk\">Fauci defended<\/a> his public position that the there was a \u201chigh likelihood\u201d the virus came from animals rather than a lab.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be decades before we know the true cost of the coronavirus pandemic. The virus killed millions across the globe, forced countless small businesses closed, and made billions of people prisoners in their homes. But the impact on our children and long-term health effects will not be known for some time,\u201d Rubio said in his column.\u00a0\u201cNo effort should be spared to understand COVID-19\u2019s origins. We cannot ignore common-sense possibilities just because they are inconvenient for one political party or one nation.\u00a0It was never \u2018conspiratorial\u2019 to suggest that the first human infection of the coronavirus could have resulted from a laboratory accident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis also blasted Fauci during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-DzAq4gMRdc\">press conference<\/a> on June 3 explaining why he was suing the CDC to get cruise lines up and running in his state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(The CDC) is saying you have to wear a mask when you are sunbathing, some of this stuff they have actually put out there,\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cYou have Fauci in his emails admitting that masks don\u2019t even stop COVID, even though he was getting all the kids to be masked for all this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Friday White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said that there were no circumstances where Biden would fire Fauci, the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/04\/wh-says-there-is-no-circumstance-where-biden-would-fire-fauci\/\">New York Post<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s overseen the management of multiple global health crises and attacks launched on him are certainly something we wouldn\u2019t stand by,\u201d Psaki said. \u201cI understand there\u2019s interest in the emails. He\u2019s answered a lot of questions on the emails, I don\u2019t think I\u2019m going to have much more to add on them from here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The virus has infected more than 33 million and killed 593,377 in the United States, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/index.html\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of released emails to and from the top U.S. Infectious Disease Expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, Sen. 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