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display in social media posts, online comments In the 1980s, Fauci played a leading role in the response to AIDS,
and other digital forums, such surveys may working with his long-time, Bobsy-twin sidekick, retired Army colonel
not be telling the whole story. At the protests Dr. Deborah Birx. This experience likely helped him learn the ropes
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against lockdowns that have been multiplying of how to commandeer immense taxpayer resources for iffy epidemics
around the nation, many participants can be and still iffier vaccines. In 1984, the year that he became NIAID direc-
seen carrying signs calling for Gates’ arrest tor, the U.S. proclaimed that it would have an HIV vaccine within two
and imprisonment or simply proclaiming, “Bill years; though no vaccine has yet materialized, the NIH (including
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Gates is evil.” 22 NIAID) continues to receive about over two billion dollars annually for
HIV research.
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FALSE FAUCI—AND HIS SIDEKICK In 1992, Birx and current CDC director Robert Redfield “knowingly
Dr. Anthony Fauci has served as the director falsified scientific data published in the New England Journal of Medi-
of NIAID since 1984, navigating through half a cine fraudulently claiming that an HIV vaccine they helped develop was
dozen administrations. With an annual budget effective.” The accusations came from two U.S. military investigators
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currently estimated at almost six billion dollars, who alleged unethical behavior and called for an independent investiga-
his agency’s research portfolio covers infectious tion; instead, the Army squashed the investigation, leaving the door open
diseases such as HIV/AIDS, respiratory infec- for the two to keep pursuing their “stellar careers.” Fauci, undaunted,
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tions, diarrheal diseases, tuberculosis, malaria, later drew the ire of Senator Tom Coburn for continuing to exaggerate
Ebola and Zika as well as “immune-related ill- the results of the HIV vaccine trials with which Birx was involved. 30
nesses” ranging from autoimmune disorders to Notably, both Fauci and Birx hold patents related to HIV vaccines. 31,32
asthma and allergies. Fauci’s NIH bio credits him with being one of the principal archi-
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Fauci is famed for his ability to hype infec- tects in 2003 of PEPFAR (President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief).
tious disease threats and for his skills in priming PEPFAR, another boondoggle for American taxpayers, has resulted in
and massaging public opinion—skills that have windfall profits for the pharmaceutical industry through the program’s
served him well with the emergence of Covid-19. intense promotion of HIV drugs in over fifty countries. Birx has been
In early March, 2020, for example, Fauci stoked at the helm of PEPFAR since 2014, holding the official title of “U.S.
coronavirus fears by lumping the new virus, Global AIDS Coordinator and Special Representative for Global Health
about which little was yet known, into the same Diplomacy.”
basket as past panic-inducing events such as As a more recent example of Fauci’s vaccine opportunism, in April
the HIV epidemic, anthrax attacks and bird flu. 2016 the NIAID director called for an additional two billion dollars in
Leaving the door open to go in many different U.S. government funding for Zika vaccines, though not a single Zika
directions, he added, “Everything has a little bit infection had been documented in the U.S. at the time. Displaying his by
of a different twist to it. It’s not exactly the same, now all-too-familiar modus operandi, Fauci urged Congress to “act now,”
but there’s always that uncertainty that gets stating “The regular appropriations process takes too long” and adding,
people very anxious.” Long-time Fauci critics “I don’t want to wait to have to develop a vaccine.” By November of that
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have observed that the doctor often “advance[s] year, the WHO was declaring that Zika was no longer an emergency, and
theories and yet position[s] himself to avoid by the following March, global infections had tapered to essentially zero.
scrutiny” and also not infrequently covers up Nonetheless, with about thirty-eight Zika vaccines in the pipeline, Fauci
contradictions in his assertions through “obtuse maintained in September 2017 that “Nothing has changed with regard to
and wordy explanations.” 25 our vaccine approach”—even as the Department of Health and Human

FAUCI: A CLEVER MANIPULATOR
In March 2020, a damning book by Charles Ortleb (which has already disappeared from Amazon and other book-
sellers) characterized Fauci as a “clever manipulator”—the “Bernie Madoff of science” and the crafter of an “HIV Ponzi
scheme.” Goodreads summarizes the nine elements of the decades-long Ponzi scheme, which has involved nosological
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(disease classification) fraud, epidemiological fraud, virological fraud, treatment fraud, public health policy fraud, “con-
cealment of negative scientific data and paradigm-challenging anomalies,” “chronic obscurantism,” censorship of critics
and whistleblowers and—when needed—“vigilantism and witch-hunts against any intellectuals, scientists, or citizens
who constitute any form of resistance to the Ponzi scheme.”
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Also this spring, former NIH scientist Dr. Judy Mikovits, one of Fauci’s most famous professional casualties, went
public describing her former boss’s bullying and suppression of critical science. Ironically, her book, Plague of Corruption,
was at the top of Amazon’s bestseller list for weeks on end. 65
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