The gall of faux Fauci: "I represent science"

December 6, 2021. It takes a special kind of arrogance to claim that "I represent science." One would need to be an egomaniac or a fool to make such a claim. Choose one for Dr. Fauci.

Here are four examples of such hubris, and the responses to those claims. First is from Fox News, featuring Rand Paul. From The Hill comes another short video. Next, Forbes cites a GOP lawmaker saying, "Okay, that's crazy." Finally, Ted Cruz reacts to these fatuous Fauci-ism. To compound the foolishness is Nancy Pelosi's claim that the Republicans are both anti-science and anti-vaccine.

Here are the facts, the "not false news." Fauci does NOT represent science (although he may resent science). He represents the federal bureaucracy and Big Pharma. His claims for protecting the "public health" are as useless and false as the old Regan joke, "I'm from the government and I a where to help you." Science has no representative. Science is science and a reasonably well-educated person can make sense of the science. Once a politician or a bureaucrat starts making recommendations without letting the science speak, public health, the economy and our natural rights are in jeopardy.

As to Pelosi, she confuses and smears people with claims of their being "anti-vaccine" when they are almost always anti-vaccine MANDATE. There is a huge difference, she knows it, and she lies nonetheless, fueling an entirely false narrative echoed by the media who give her a soapbox and no skepticism. The media are duplicitous in allowing political hacks and highly-paid, unaccountable bureaucrats to spout nonsense. Good journalists need to be skeptical, to practice critical thinking, before allowing such obviously ignorant claims to enter into the media-created narrative.

As to "anti-science," it is pretty clear from the science and the health record since the vaccine that supporters of a vaccine mandate are anti-science, and not those who oppose mandates. The good news is that there appears to be some movement away from mandates. The mayor of Chicago dropped her lawsuit against the Chicago police, the one that mandated vaccines for all cops. The courts are rejecting mandates. The Australian PM has rejected mandates. It's primarily a problem is western Europe, where sclerotic socialist politicians are hitting a new low when it comes to making claims that they are "from the government and here to help," or that they "know better," or that they are "only looking out for us." or that they are "doing this for the common good." Nonsense all.

Worse, Pelosi and her ilk are clearly anti-science in their promotion of abortion (separate from their problem with promoting "choice" on abortion but not on vaccines), which science clearly shows us that the fetus is a living being, hosted by the pregnant women. Or to claim that repeatedly disproven computer models and short term weather changes can be used as "science" about climate change just boggles the imagination. Or by claiming a 97% consensus on climate change based upon responses to two questions by 79 self-professed representatives of climate science to an open, online poll, is just more unscientific nonsense.

Face it. Covid policies are a threat to human rights. They are not the best way to manage or to support human health. Cases without symptoms, deaths with multiple co-morbidities, symptoms without using effective legacy drugs, elderly and obese people, dysfunctional financial incentives for hospitals and pharmaceutical firms ("follow the money"), non-accountable bureaucrats, unconstitutional mandates, unnecessary and ineffective lockdowns and masks, arbitrary social distancing recommendations, an uncritical (of the powers that be) and often fawning and fatuous media -- these are all issues that cloud what is going on here.