Fred day wrote:
We were be better off by far if Ted Cruz were thrown in jail and Dr. F***i given the respect he deserves. Every disaster movie starts with the government disregarding the scientists for a good reason. Dr F***i severed this country for decades. Ted Cruz never served anything except his own self interests.
Dr. F***i is a fraud masquerading as "science".
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/whitewashing-aids-history_b_4762295Dr. Anthony F***i is rewriting history. He is doing so to disguise his shameful role in delaying promotion of an AIDS treatment that would have prevented tens of thousands of deaths in the first years of the epidemic.
https://www.aier.org/article/f***i-was-duplicitous-on-the-aids-epidemic-too/Press accounts, noticing F***i’s article, immediately sounded the alarm. “Household contacts can t***smit AIDS,” read one nationally syndicated report on the UPI wire dated May 5, 1983. The Associated Press queried the next day “Does AIDS spread by Routine Contact?” and quoted F***i as their lead authority. The New York Times raised the specter of household t***smission between family members, invoking F***i’s commentary as its main authority.
We now know of course that F***i’s theory was wrong. HIV, the v***s that was later discovered to cause AIDS, only t***smits by exposure to infected bodily fluids such as blood, or by sexual contact. The infant infection discussed in the same JAMA issue involved vertical t***smission from the mother to child during pregnancy.
The damage was already done though, as the media went to work stoking alarm about AIDS t***smission through simple routine contacts. Hundreds of newspapers disseminated the distressing theory from F***i’s article. Writing a few weeks later, conservative columnist Pat Buchanan enlisted F***i as the centerpiece of a rebuttal against Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler, who told him “there is no evidence…that the general population is threatened by [AIDS].”
On July 14, both Buchanan’s column and its excerpt of F***i’s article were entered into the congressional record along with moralizing commentary that assigned blame for the disease to homosexual establishments and gatherings. Unfounded fears of t***smission risk through simple contact, and accompanying social ostracization of the disease’s victims, became one of the most notorious and harmful missteps of the entire AIDS crisis.
It might be tempting to chalk F***i’s error up to the scientific uncertainties of a novel disease. Medicine advances by investigating all plausible theories, subjecting them to testing, and ruling out those that lack evidence. In this case however, the more likely candidate was scientific negligence and unwarranted alarmist speculation.
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-f***i-prompted-the-drafting-of-paper-to-disprove-lab-leak-theoryBREAKING: F***i prompted the drafting of paper to 'disprove' lab leak theory
On Sunday, the GOP-led Select Subcommittee on the C****av***s P******c, released a memo citing evidence that showed Dr. Anthony F***i, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, "prompted the drafting of 'Proximal Origins' to disprove the lab leak theory."
According to the Congressional memo, "On February 1, 2020, Dr. Anthony F***i, Dr. Francis Collins, and at least eleven other scientists convened a conference call to discuss C****-**. It was on this conference call that Drs. F***i and Collins were first warned that C****-** may have leaked from a lab in W***n, China and, further, may have been intentionally genetically manipulated." The Proximal Origin document was first drafted days later on February 4 and "The evidence available to the Select Subcommittee suggests that Dr. Anthony F***i 'prompted' Dr. Kristian Andersen, Professor, Scripps Research (Scripps), to write Proximal Origin and that the goal was to 'disprove' any lab leak theory."