In 2022, we learned that Dr. Anthony Fauci would be stepping down from his positions as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation, and Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden. A collective five decades (nearly six) of civil service to the U.S. government culminated in his time guiding the public through the Covid-19 pandemic. He graced the cover of InStyle, he threw a truly unprecedented ceremonial first pitch on opening day of the 2020 MLB season, and he inspired all Americans to “trust the science” with his headline-making rhetoric.
“Stick with the science, stick with the evidence, stick with the public health issues and stay out of politics,” Fauci advised young scientists in an interview with Government Executive.
Alas, instead of being held accountable for lies that did (and continue to do) irreversible harm to American citizens and the nation as a whole, Dr. Fauci is quietly exiting stage left while all of us in the audience wonder why American freedoms were traded away for botched medical advice. That wishy-washy advice granted him history’s highest recorded government pension (over $350,000 per year, a number that even presidents don’t make) upon his retirement…and that’s on top of the $12.6 million net worth he accumulated during the pandemic.
No matter how many times people parroted the phrase “trust the science” while perhaps calling you a science-denier or…
