Scathing Article about HC by Robert Hill

i have a phd in epidemiology and am faculty and direct an organized research center at a tier 1 research medical school. the center that i direct has received over 50 million in research grants, has published close to 900 peer-reviewed manuscripts, has educated many thousands of medical students, and has treated thousands of patients in our outpatient and inpatient clinical practices (including many covid patients). i oversee all of those functions while maintaining a robust public health research portfolio of my own. i am one of the few researchers who has never received a penny of funding from pharma or biotech and am thus one of the few who can speak freely on the subject without concern over my future grants.

with that credibility in mind, to answer your questions, fauci's dishonest and unscientific transgressions over the least year alone include the following:

- telling the american public that masks were not effective in slowing covid transmission early in the pandemic, when he knew damn well that surgical and n95+ masks did. this was later excused by his claim that healthcare professionals need them more. he should have said this instead of lying. there is no such thing as a noble lie.

- his emails - which i have read carefully, as should everyone - clearly indicate that he was advised and acknowledged that the virus was unlikely to be of natural origin and was most likely modified in a lab due to its genetic sequence.

- he knows that natural immunity provides at least as strong of protection against covid than vaccines, yet is pushing for vaccine mandates irrespective of previous infection status.

- the niaid clearly funded gain of function research that was conducted in the wuhan lab and he lied about this to congress. the grants have been made clear, they were cited in peer-reviewed publications, and the intercept has made hundreds of pages of details on this topic publicly available. again, everyone should read these documents as they are revealing.

- he is protecting colleagues, including but not limited to peter daszak, who should at the very least be closely investigated for conducting coronavirus research in bats in wuhan around the time of the beginning of the pandemic.

- he never emphasizes the incredible wealth of scientific evidence that modifiable lifestyle factors including overweight/obesity, diabetes, hypertension, metabolic syndrome, and physical inactivity represent the vast majority of covid hospitalizations and deaths.

- he ignores other treatment and prophylactic strategies that have promising evidence, and the niaid fund almost nothing that is not tied to some patented treatment that will generate profit.

- while vaccinations appear to offer benefit to those at risk, the myopic focus on vaccinations in light of everything we know about other cheap, off-patent treatments - which has largely fallen on the developed world that is not beholden to pharma influence in funding - is extremely disappointing.

- we will never end the pandemic with monovalent, non-sterilizing vaccines. all viruses mutate and the asymptomatic spread among vaccinated individuals (you read that right, VACCINATED individuals), in particular, in the midst of a pandemic is almost certainly contributing to faster mutation due to the narrow spike-protein focused immunity of the current crop of vaccines.

in short, fauci has destroyed faith in the public health establishment among millions of people worldwide and it will take at least a generation for that trust to be restored. i understand that his position has become increasingly political, but dishonesty can never be condoned. i have lost all respect for him and many of my similarly accomplished colleagues have been deeply disappointed in the way he has handled the pandemic.