You'll recall the neighbor of Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky) who tackled him one day after years of disagreement on landscaping. That man landed in jail.
If Dr. Anthony Fauci had been of similar temperament, he might have done the same thing yesterday.
In a Select Committee on Coronavirus Crisis hearing, Paul invoked a 2017 medical paper to imply that COVID19 was developed in part from funds from the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NAIAD), the agency that Fauci has headed since 1984.
“You’re trying to obscure responsibility for 4 million people around the world dying from a pandemic,” Paul told Fauci -- literally accusing him of lying.
“Senator Paul, you do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly, and I want to say that officially. You do not know what you are talking about, OK?” said Fauci.
At issue was "gain of function," which is the term for a virus's becoming increasingly infectious among humans. Paul, who is a medical doctor, claimed that the paper described gain of function.
Fauci disagreed. "This paper that you are referring to was judged by qualified staff up and down the chain as not being gain of function,” he stated clearly. “You are implying that what we did was responsible for the deaths of individuals. I totally resent that, and if anybody is lying here, senator, it is you.”
But Paul interrupted him repeatedly. Later that day, Paul used that exchange to raise money, accusing Fauci in a tweet of "lies and obfuscations," then including a two-minute video that showed only Paul speaking.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fauci-rand-paul-coronavirus-hearing_n_60f6ebf8e4b09f2b23877e77
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