Anthony Fauci is not the great scientist you think he is. Every time I see someone praising Dr. Anthony Fauci to the skies on television, I say, "Oy Vey!" As someone who has watched the career of Anthony Fauci closely for almost four decades, the current uncritical adulation emanating from Laurie Garrett, Rachel Maddow, and everyone else in the media is disheartening. The Anthony Fauci I know is the one my newspaper covered.
I published New York Native from 1980-1997. As luck or destiny would have it, I found myself at the helm of a Manhattan newspaper that was published at ground zero of the AIDS epidemic. My newspaper inadvertently published the first story about the illness that turned out to be AIDS. Against the wishes of many in my frightened community, I made my newspaper the must-read journal of record on the emerging AIDS epidemic.I published the famous essay by Larry Kramer that launched the AIDS activist movement. I also published the first long interview with Robert Gallo, the supposed discoverer of the AIDS virus. In Rolling Stone, David Black said my newspaper deserved a Pulitzer prize. Randy Shilts praised my newspaper's early coverage of the AIDS epidemic in And the Band Played On.
I think it is safe to say my newspaper is probably the only one in the world to ever have a cover portraying Anthony Fauci as Pinocchio. If you area journalist or scientist and you ever have the opportunity to mention my newspaper to Anthony Fauci, I can pretty much guarantee that the blood will drain from his face. New York Native was a thorn in his side. He did not like the critical and investigative reporting in our paper that challenged much of what he told the world about the AIDS and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome epidemics. When one of my reporters met Fauci at a medical conference, Fauci refused to shake his hand. When I talked to Fauci on the phone after I wrote a critical editorial about him in the form of a satirical poem, I learned the hard way that he doesn't have much of a sense of humor. To get a real sense of Fauci's petulant self-importance, you should read a little essay he wrote early in the epidemic, when he basically warned reporters that if they didn't play ball, they would lose access to him and other scientists. Any reporter thinking of asking Fauci an impertinent or inconvenient question should read his arrogant warning to the profession. My uncompromising portrait of Fauci can be found in Fauci: The Bernie Madoff of Science and the HIV Ponzi Scheme that Concealed the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic. Yes, I compare him to Bernie Madoff. Somebody had to.
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Poster Comment:
Very interesting essay. Anthony Fauci has ruined countless lives as a medical information gatekeeper.