After he sat down for an interview with Megyn Kelly in which some of his answers elicited criticism from conservatives, including Kelly herself, former President Trump said at a campaign event that she was too hard on him.
“I did a Megyn Kelly one, and she y’know, just, she became nastier all of a sudden. She was pretty nasty, didn’t you think, anybody that watched it?” Trump asked the crowd in Maquoketa, Iowa on Wednesday.
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Trump&#8217;s complaint came after he received some blowback from the right for claiming he didn’t know who gave Dr. Anthony Fauci a Presidential Commendation in his final week in office and also his answer when Kelly asked him simply “Can a man become a woman?”
In the interview, Kelly pointed out, &#8220;For years you&#8217;ve been saying that the reason you didn&#8217;t fire Anthony Fauci was because he&#8217;d been there for a long time, that you would&#8217;ve taken heat, that it would&#8217;ve created a firestorm, quoting your words.”
&#8220;But I also said I didn&#8217;t listen to him too much,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-to-megyn-kelly-on-giving-fauci-a-presidential-commendation-i-dont-know-who-did-that">answered</a>.
&#8220;I&#8217;m getting there,&#8221; Kelly said. &#8220;But then in May, you started saying, &#8216;Well, he&#8217;s a civil servant, so I couldn&#8217;t, technically. The truth is though, not only did you not fire Fauci, who is loathed by many, many millions of Republicans in particular, but also some Democrats, you made him a star. You made him a star. This is the criticism of you, that you made him the face of the White House Coronavirus Task Force.&#8221;
&#8220;You think so?&#8221; Trump asked.
&#8220;That he was out at every presser, that he was running herd for the administration on Covid, and that you actually gave him a Presidential Commendation before you left office,&#8221; Kelly said. &#8220;Wouldn&#8217;t you like a do-over on that?&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know who gave him the commendation,&#8221; Trump claimed. &#8220;I really don&#8217;t know who gave him the commendation. I wouldn&#8217;t have done it.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s a presidential commendation,&#8221; Kelly noted.
The White House <a href="https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/president-trump-awards-presidential-commendations-operation-warp-speed-team/">website</a> during Trump’s tenure announced on January 19, 2021, “Today, President Donald J. Trump awarded Presidential Commendations to the below individuals in recognition of their exceptional efforts on Operation Warp Speed:’
Among the names listed was Dr. Anthony Fauci.
When Kelly asked if a man could become a woman, Trump replied, “In my opinion, you have a man, you have a woman. I think part of it is birth. Can the man give birth? No, no, although they’ll come up with some answer to that also someday. I heard just the other day they have a way that now the man can give birth. No. I’ll continue my stance on that.”
Kelly later slammed Trump’s answer on gender identity as “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/weak-sauce-megyn-kelly-hits-trump-for-his-answer-to-question-on-radical-gender-theory">weak sauce</a>,” adding, “I really wish he did better on that. I liked Ron DeSantis’ answer, “I’m going to be honest, which is ‘No, no, no, no. Obviously, no. And it’s not determined based on who can give birth. It’s determined by God. And it’s pretty obvious just as soon as you come out of the womb. That’s the way it’s always been. That’s the way it continues to be. Notwithstanding this weird agenda by some activists in this crazy trans-agenda-pushing cult.”

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Republican presidential candidate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron DeSantis</a> hit back at former President Donald Trump in response to claims that Trump made about how DeSantis handled COVID as the governor of Florida.
During an interview this week with Megyn Kelly, the former president claimed that he was &#8220;not a big fan of [Dr. Anthony] Fauci,&#8221; but that DeSantis &#8220;said the greatest things&#8221; about Fauci and &#8220;love[d] him.&#8221;
&#8220;I was not a big fan of Fauci,&#8221; said Trump. &#8220;If you look at Ron DeSanctimonious, he was &#8212; this guy said the greatest things [about Fauci]. I can give you articles that &#8216;Fauci&#8217;s great, he&#8217;s wonderful, we love him. We don&#8217;t do anything without Fauci.&#8217; This went on for months.&#8221;
&#8220;But he didn’t listen to Fauci,&#8221; Kelly noted.
Trump responded by claiming that DeSantis &#8220;100%&#8221; did listen to Fauci and that &#8220;he shut down Florida.&#8221; When Kelly interjected that he did so only &#8220;for a month,&#8221; the former president responded, &#8220;Oh, he shut it down a lot longer. He shut down the beaches. He shut down the roads. He shut down a hospital. He also had long lines of people &#8216;getting the jab,&#8217; as he called it. &#8216;Let&#8217;s all go get the jab.&#8217; The guy tried to change history in Florida.&#8221; (exchange starts 2:25 mark)
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DeSantis responded to Trump&#8217;s claims during an interview Thursday with Steve Deace when Deace brought up the former president&#8217;s remarks.
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s important to say that that is different from what Donald Trump used to say,&#8221; DeSantis noted. &#8220;I mean, he used to praise Florida for having been open. He used to say I was one of the country&#8217;s great governors. He said we handled COVID correctly and brilliantly. So he used to say that &#8212; he was on record, always saying that. Now, because I&#8217;m a threat to him, that&#8217;s why he&#8217;s now changing his tune.&#8221;
&#8220;But some of the things he&#8217;s saying are just bold faced lies,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We never mandated mNRA COVID shots. In fact, I called a special session of the Florida legislature to prevent any mandates in the state. And not just by the state government or local government, we provided protections for employees at private businesses, which a lot of establishment Republicans basically were saying businesses should be able to do whatever they want.&#8221;
Deace noted that South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem was one of the &#8220;establishment Republicans&#8221; who DeSantis was talking about who sided with allowing businesses to mandate vaccines.
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&#8220;Kristi Noem told her own constituents, in July of 2021, that if you don&#8217;t want to work for a company with a vaccine mandate, just go get another job,&#8221; Deace said. &#8220;She said that publicly.&#8221;
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Workers whose employers are mandating a vaccine for continued employment have the power to say no. Our robust economy and job market gives them the option to find a new employer that values personal choice and responsibility, and doesn’t force mandates on their employees.
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&#8220;And that&#8217;s, so you&#8217;re basically saying, your job or the jab, you have to make a choice on that,&#8221; DeSantis said. &#8220;So we fought against that. Clearly, Florida led the way in being open, much to the attacks that I used to suffer from &#8212; and a lot of the attacks that I suffered from through the balance of 2020 was the media in Florida leveraging the Trump White House against me and saying, &#8216;Oh, the governor isn&#8217;t following the Trump White House directives. He has restaurants open; he has schools open; he has all that stuff.&#8217; So they really used that White House task force as a cudgel to try to beat me over the head to try to portray me as being reckless because we had opened the state, and we were doing all that. So that&#8217;s just the reality.&#8221;
DeSantis also addressed the claim that he &#8220;loved&#8221; Fauci, saying, contrary to Trump&#8217;s claims, his disdain for Fauci was so high that he actually sold campaign merchandise attacking Fauci that said, &#8220;Don&#8217;t Fauci My Florida.&#8221;
&#8220;I mean, this has been a rallying cry that we stood up to Fauci in Florida, the Free State of Florida would not have been what we are, were it not for standing up to Fauci,&#8221; he said, adding, &#8220;I fought against Fauci when he was popular. It&#8217;s easy for Republicans to ding him now because he&#8217;s unpopular with the broader electorate. Back then, Donald Trump used to cite Fauci&#8217;s poll numbers as a reason why Fauci was somebody that should be listened to. He said, &#8216;Fauci has got these great poll numbers, but we&#8217;re listening to Fauci, why don&#8217;t we have the same poll numbers?&#8217; And his campaign for reelection, in October of 2020, they were running videos where Fauci is bragging that Donald Trump did everything I told him to do. They were putting that out as a positive message for their candidate. And then, of course, he did give Fauci a presidential commendation his last day in office.&#8221;
DeSantis went on to address <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-to-megyn-kelly-on-giving-fauci-a-presidential-commendation-i-dont-know-who-did-that">a clip</a> from Trump&#8217;s interview with Kelly in which he said he had no idea who gave Fauci the <a href="https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/president-trump-awards-presidential-commendations-operation-warp-speed-team/">Presidential Commendation</a>. &#8220;Was that the immaculate commendation that just happened to happen?&#8221; DeSantis joked. &#8220;It said, &#8216;Donald Trump awards Fauci this commendation.&#8217; So I thought it was really pathetic to sit there and listen to that drivel. It is totally false. And you know what?&#8221;
DeSantis then called out people in conservative media who &#8220;know all that&#8217;s false,&#8221; but who might be afraid to call Trump out for a variety of reasons. &#8220;We&#8217;ll see how many of them are willing to step up to the plate and call a spade a spade,&#8221; DeSantis said.
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🔥 DESANTIS GOES OFF on Trump’s false attacks over COVID and his many excuses for not firing Anthony Fauci:
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‘Bold Faced Lies’: DeSantis Hits Back At Trump Over His Claims About Florida’s COVID Record

'Bold Faced Lies': DeSantis Hits Back At Trump Over His Claims About Florida's COVID Record

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People are being misled about studies examining the effectiveness of face masks against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid-19">COVID,</a> according to Dr. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anthony-fauci">Anthony Fauci</a>.
Jonathan Karl, a co-anchor of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week,&#8221; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeYq5aF3SVk">pressed Fauci</a> on the efficacy of masking near the end of an interview on Sunday. &#8220;There’s a new study out that suggests that masks were actually not effective, at least in a global sense, in containing the pandemic,&#8221; Karl said. &#8220;What is your sense, looking back at all this? Did masks prove to be less effective than you anticipated?&#8221;
Fauci responded by insisting that &#8220;some of the studies are confusing&#8221; and then singled out an <a href="https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/full">analysis</a> released in January by The Cochrane Institute, which raised the prospect that masks hardly made a difference in stopping the spread of respiratory viruses such as COVID.
The study prompted headlines saying that <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11702865/Masks-make-little-no-difference-Covid-infections-massive-cross-country-meta-analysis-finds.html">face masks made</a> <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/02/14/face-masks-made-little-to-no-difference-in-preventing-covid-study/">&#8220;little to no difference&#8221;</a> in preventing the spread of COVID after a wave of mask guidelines and mandates during the pandemic, but Karla Soares-Weiser, editor-in-chief of the Cochrane Library, <a href="https://www.cochrane.org/news/statement-physical-interventions-interrupt-or-reduce-spread-respiratory-viruses-review">responded with a statement</a> in March saying it was an &#8220;inaccurate and misleading interpretation&#8221; to claim that the study found that &#8220;masks don&#8217;t work.&#8221;
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&#8220;The study that recently has been now quoted a lot and causing a lot of confusion is this Cochrane study, which even the people who run the Cochrane study say that that study can be misleading because people have commented on that study saying, &#8216;Absolutely masks don’t work,&#8217; which is absolutely not the case because there are a number of studies that show that masks actually do work,&#8221; Fauci said.
&#8220;And there’s a lot of confusion where you take a broad series of studies, and you look at them in a meta-analysis,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Only a couple of those studies were specifically looking at COVID. So, I think we’d better be careful that that study that people keep talking about can be very, very misleading. There’s a lot of good data that masks work.&#8221;
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Fauci, now <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-joins-georgetown-as-distinguished-university-professor">part of the faculty</a> at Georgetown University, was a longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and former chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden. Toward the end of his tenure in government, Fauci faced blowback for how he jumped from advising people not to wear face masks early in the COVID pandemic to advocating for masking against the virus, a change he attributed <a href="https://www.cnn.com/factsfirst/politics/factcheck_e58c20c6-8735-4022-a1f5-1580bc732c45">to the emergence of new data</a>.
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Fauci admits that masks don’t work for the public at large but still absurdly claims masks work on an individual basis.  More subterfuge. <a href="https://t.co/UcjOa8flkr">pic.twitter.com/UcjOa8flkr</a>
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In an interview that aired on CNN last week, Fauci <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-confronted-with-study-that-raised-doubts-about-masks">insisted</a> that &#8220;many studies&#8221; show masking protects people on an &#8220;individual basis&#8221; rather than on a &#8220;broad population&#8221; level.
One of Fauci&#8217;s most vocal critics, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), shot back in a post to X. &#8220;Fauci admits that masks don’t work for the public at large, but still absurdly claims masks work on an individual basis. More subterfuge,&#8221; Paul said.

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Johns Hopkins University health policy expert and surgeon Dr. Marty Makary said on Sunday that &#8220;highly partisan&#8221; experts changed the culture of medicine during the COVID-19 pandemic after recent remarks from Dr. Anthony Fauci responding to a study that said masks didn&#8217;t work.
&#8220;There&#8217;s been a lot of groupthink — there has been an attempt to silence anyone against the consensus and medicine change the culture of medicine changed during COVID,&#8221; Makary <a href="https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1698465910804169033" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News anchor Jon Scott on FOX Report.
&#8220;We now have an era where experts who are highly partisan are citing data with conclusions that they like even if those studies are flawed, and they ignore studies that have conclusions that they don&#8217;t want to hear, even if those studies have impeccable standards,&#8221; he added.
Makary&#8217;s comments were in response to a recent CNN appearance from former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, who was asked to respond to an analysis released in January by The Cochrane Institute that raised doubts about face masks being able to curb the spread of COVID.
The Cochrane study made the rounds earlier this year, leading to headlines saying that face masks made &#8220;little to no difference&#8221; in preventing the spread of COVID after a wave of mask guidelines and mandates during the pandemic.
&#8220;And Dr. Fauci, rather than criticize it or tried to point out a flaw in that study, acknowledges that it was &#8216;less strong than other data,'&#8221; Makary said.
During his CNN interviews, Fauci stressed that other reviews focus on the individual level.
&#8220;When you&#8217;re talking about the effect on the epidemic or the pandemic as a whole, the data are less strong,&#8221; Fauci <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-confronted-with-study-that-raised-doubts-about-masks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;But when you talk about as an individual basis of someone protecting themselves or protecting themselves from spreading it to others, there&#8217;s no doubt that there&#8217;s many studies that show that there is an advantage.&#8221;
He added that the Cochrane study&#8217;s population level showed the data as less firm regarding the effect on the overall pandemic.
&#8220;But we&#8217;re not talking about that — we&#8217;re talking about an individual&#8217;s effect on their own safety,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That&#8217;s a bit different than the broad population level.&#8221;
Makary further criticized the medical community for believing other pandemic-related recommendations from Dr. Fauci and how a similar &#8220;political allegiance&#8221; is emerging as some colleges require students to mask up again and take another COVID vaccine after a recent <a href="https://www.today.com/health/coronavirus/covid-summer-surge-2023-rcna100602">uptick in COVID cases</a> and the emergence of a new variant.
&#8220;We have ignored the data on the largest public health intervention in human history,&#8221; Makary <a href="https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1698472473141116950" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;Instead, everybody is rewriting their own story.&#8221;
&#8220;I wish we could have seen less sort of blind political allegiance to one or two public health experts and instead talk about things like obesity and the mental health crisis,&#8221; he added. &#8220;There&#8217;s a group of doctors that believe 100% of what Dr. Fauci has said from ignoring natural immunity to the data on myocarditis pushing boosters in young people, masking toddlers closing schools, and now you&#8217;re seeing the same sort of political allegiance with the mask issue and the Cochrane Review.&#8221;
Daniel Chaitin contributed to this report.

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Dr. Marty Makary Criticizes ‘Highly Partisan’ Experts For Changing Medical Community During Pandemic

Dr. Marty Makary Criticizes 'Highly Partisan' Experts For Changing Medical Community During Pandemic

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Dr. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anthony-fauci">Anthony Fauci</a> was asked to respond to a study that raised doubts about face masks being able to curb the spread of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid-19">COVID</a>.
The exchange happened during an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3AMslS6cKw">interview on CNN</a> over the weekend when host Michael Smerconish brought up an analysis released in January by The Cochrane Institute. He also pointed to an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/21/opinion/do-mask-mandates-work.html#:~:text=The%20conclusions%20were%20based%20on,against%20Covid%20than%20those%20without.">opinion piece</a> from Bret Stephens in The New York Times that quoted Oxford epidemiologist and lead author of the study, Tom Jefferson, <a href="https://maryannedemasi.substack.com/p/exclusive-lead-author-of-new-cochrane">telling journalist Maryanne Demasi</a> there was a lack of evidence underpinning the effectiveness of masks and saying mask mandates were based on &#8220;flawed&#8221; studies.
&#8220;Yeah but there are other studies,&#8221; Fauci replied, stressing that other reviews focus on the individual level.
“When you’re talking about the effect on the epidemic or the pandemic as a whole, the data are less strong,” Fauci said. “But when you talk about as an individual basis of someone protecting themselves or protecting themselves from spreading it to others, there’s no doubt that there’s many studies that show that there is an advantage.”
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&#8220;When you [look] at the broad population level like the Cochrane study, the data are less firm with regard to the effect on the overall pandemic,&#8221; Fauci added. &#8220;But we&#8217;re not talking about that, we&#8217;re talking about an individual&#8217;s effect on their own safety. That&#8217;s a bit different than the broad population level.&#8221;
The Cochrane study made the rounds earlier this year, leading to headlines saying that <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11702865/Masks-make-little-no-difference-Covid-infections-massive-cross-country-meta-analysis-finds.html">face masks made</a> <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/02/14/face-masks-made-little-to-no-difference-in-preventing-covid-study/">&#8220;little to no difference&#8221;</a> in preventing the spread of COVID after a wave of mask guidelines and mandates during the pandemic.
That led Karla Soares-Weiser, editor-in-chief of the Cochrane Library, <a href="https://www.cochrane.org/news/statement-physical-interventions-interrupt-or-reduce-spread-respiratory-viruses-review">to respond with a statement</a> in March saying it was an &#8220;inaccurate and misleading interpretation&#8221; to claim that the study found that &#8220;masks don&#8217;t work.&#8221;
Fauci, a longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and former chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, also said he was concerned that people would not adhere to health recommendations during an <a href="https://www.today.com/health/coronavirus/covid-summer-surge-2023-rcna100602">uptick in COVID cases</a> and the emergence of a new variant.
&#8220;I would hope that if in fact we get to the point that the volume of cases is such and organizations like the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] recommend — CDC does not mandate anything — recommends that people wear masks, I would hope that they abide by the recommendation and take into account the risks to themselves and to their families.”

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Fauci Confronted With Study That Raised Doubts About Masks

Prominent scientists are demanding a full retraction of an early, highly influential paper on the origins of COVID-19 that downplayed the lab leak theory and was praised by Dr. Anthony Fauci.
“The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2,” published in March 2020 in the journal Nature Medicine, declared that COVID did not come from a lab despite private doubts from the authors that a lab leak was possible, and even &#8220;likely.&#8221;
“Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus,” <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9#Sec8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> the five prominent scientists who authored the paper. &#8220;We do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.&#8221;
However, emails from early 2020 that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/us-formally-suspends-funding-to-wuhan-institute-of-virology" target="_blank" rel="noopener">came to light</a> earlier this year show that Fauci and the paper&#8217;s authors suspected all along that the virus may have been the result of a lab leak.
A total of 47 scientists and other STEM professionals <a href="https://www.aier.org/article/caught-red-handed-scientists-call-for-full-retraction-of-natures-proximal-origin-paper-as-fraud-accusations-mount/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> an <a href="https://biosafetynow.org/open-letter-to-nature-medicine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">open letter</a> to Nature Medicine journal calling for the paper to be retracted.
&#8220;We, as STEM and STEM-policy professionals, call upon Nature Medicine to publish an expression of editorial concern for the paper and to begin a process of withdrawal or retraction of the paper,&#8221; the signers wrote.
The paper is “scientific fraud,” declared one of the signers, Richard H. Ebright, the Board of Governors professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers University.
The paper &#8220;falsely claimed science showed COVID-19 did not have a lab origin,&#8221; Ebright wrote in a tweet. &#8220;Newly released messages from the authors show they did not believe the conclusions of the paper and show the paper is the product of scientific fraud and scientific misconduct.&#8221;
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The 2020 &quot;Proximal Origin&quot; paper falsely claimed science showed COVID-19 did not have a lab origin. Newly released messages from the authors show they did not believe the conclusions of the paper and show the paper is the product of scientific fraud and scientific misconduct.… <a href="https://t.co/61daITfmA9">pic.twitter.com/61daITfmA9</a>
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Neil Harrison, a professor of anesthesiology and molecular pharmacology at Columbia University, also signed the letter calling for a retraction.
Harrison <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/22/covid-lab-leak-prof-andrew-rambaut-avoid-upsetting-china/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> there is &#8220;no evidence&#8221; for the conclusions that the virus had a natural origin or that the pandemic began at a seafood market, and the authors&#8217; private messages show they knew this at the time.
“Scientists in the clinical and contiguous sciences have argued against these papers almost from the beginning, and have been subjected to volleys of abuse. This is the first retraction call but it won’t be the last,” Harrison said.
Other signers of the retraction letter include a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, a professor of pediatrics and genetics at Harvard who has researched vaccines, an epidemiology professor at the University of Ottawa, a biochemistry and molecular biology professor at Pennsylvania State University, an epidemiologist and health professor at the University of California, Irvine, a professor of molecular immunology at the University of Oxford, and many others.
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The COVID-origin paper&#8217;s authors agreed to downplay the lab leak theory, “given the s*** show that would happen if anyone serious accused the Chinese of even accidental release,” one <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/scientists-agreed-to-downplay-chinese-lab-leak-theory-for-fear-of-s-show-messages-indicate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a private Slack message in February 2020.
“Yup, I totally agree that that’s a very reasonable conclusion. Although I hate when politics is injected into science – but its [sic] impossible not to, especially given the circumstances,” one of the paper’s other authors responded.
At the end of January, Fauci had a call with one of the COVID origin paper’s authors, Kristian Andersen, that concerned him so much that Fauci suggested potentially notifying the FBI. Fauci was the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and served as a prominent member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force in 2020.
“Some of the features (potentially) look engineered,” Anderson wrote in an email to Fauci that same evening.
Fauci wrote in an email that a group of evolutionary biologists should get together to examine whether Andersen&#8217;s concerns were validated. If so, they should notify the authorities, likely the FBI, Fauci said.
“[The] lab escape version of this is so friggin&#8217; likely to have happened because they were already doing this type of work and the molecular data is fully consistent with that scenario,” a concerned Andersen reportedly <a href="https://public.substack.com/p/top-scientists-misled-congress-about?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=279400&amp;post_id=135220097&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;utm_medium=email" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> on February 1, 2020.
The scientists scrambled to look for a natural evolution explanation for COVID-19, but they struggled to find conclusive evidence.
A week later, Andersen <a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/01/19/covid-origin-nih-emails/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, “Our main work over the last couple of weeks has been focused on trying to disprove any type of lab theory, but we are at a crossroad where the scientific evidence isn’t conclusive enough to say that we have high confidence in any of the three main theories considered.”
“As to publishing this document in a journal, I am currently not in favor of doing so,” he added.
However, in March, the researchers decided to move forward and publish the scientific paper that downplayed the lab leak theory.
“Thanks for your note,” Fauci replied when informed the paper would be published soon. “Nice job on the paper.”
In April, Fauci would <a href="https://twitter.com/HansMahncke/status/1682838526847598595" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cite</a> the study from the White House podium as evidence the virus jumped from animals to humans.
In a new ripple that came to light this month, Andersen <a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/07/21/covid-origin-nih-lab-leak/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">also had</a> a pending $8.9 million NIAID grant that still required final approval from Fauci when the study was published, according to The Intercept.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) begrudgingly released the unredacted emails earlier this year after more than a year of litigation involving Freedom Of Information Act requests from journalists.

Scientists Demand Full Retraction Of COVID Natural Origins Paper Praised By Fauci

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Sen. Rand Paul, reinvigorated by newly-released emails from 2020 showing Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted that scientists at Wuhan University were known to have been working on gain-of-function experiments, is <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12308421/Anthony-Fauci-accused-perjury-Former-White-House-doctor-LIED-oath-funding-gain-function-research-China-feared-started-Covid-pandemic-Republican-Senator-claims.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calling</a> for Fauci to be investigated for lying to Congress.
The Kentucky Republican wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland last week, saying Fauci had committed perjury when he told a Senate committee in July 2021 that the National Institutes of Health “has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).” Fauci served as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984-2022; NIAID is one of the 27 Institutes and Centers of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The 2020 email from Fauci revolved around a call he shared with various scientists, including Francis Collins, (former director of the National Human Genome Research Institute), who were “concerned about the fact that upon viewing the sequences of several isolates of the nCoV, there were mutations in the virus that would be most unusual to have evolved naturally in the bats and that there was a suspicion that this mutation was inserted.”
This key passage immediately followed: &#8220;The suspicion was heightened by the fact that scientists in Wuhan University are known to have been working on gain-of-function experiments to determine the molecular mechanisms associated with bat viruses adapting to human infection, and the outbreak originated in Wuhan.&#8221;
In September 2021, Richard Ebright, professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers University and laboratory director at the Waksman Institute of Microbiology, <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/fauci-untruthful-congress-wuhan-lab-research-documents-show-gain-function-1627351" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told </a>Newsweek that documents released by The Intercept proved “unequivocally” that NIH grants were used to fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Paul pointed out that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) determined in June that the Wuhan Institute of Virology and Wuhan University did receive NIH funding.
Paul noted that the GAO report “noted that NIH funded the WIV’s project ‘Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence’ and included “genetic experiments to combine naturally occurring bat coronaviruses with SARS and MERS viruses, resulting in hybridized coronavirus strains. &#8230; GAO also found that NIH funded the Wuhan University’s collaboration with WIV on viral detection in the Yunnan province.”
The GAO <a href="https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-23-106119.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>, “Specifically, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) provided $200,000 in grant funding to Wuhan University, the only selected Chinese entity to receive funding directly from a federal agency. &#8230; All three selected Chinese entities received first-tier subawards from award recipients or second-tier subawards from another subrecipient. Specifically, we identified seven subawards to the three entities: Wuhan University: Two subawards totaling $240,496 disbursed, WIV: Three subawards totaling $1,413,720 disbursed, and AMMS: Two subawards totaling $514,129 disbursed. &#8230; Funding was disbursed under five of the seven subawards to the selected entities in calendar years 2014 through 2021.”
Fauci told the Senate Committee in 2021 that “gain-of-function research was done entirely in the Wuhan Institute by Doctor Shi [Zhengli] and was funded by the NIH.”
Paul pointed out that a paper by Wuhan Institute of Virology scientists mentioned efforts to produce a “chimeric” coronavirus. Such a virus would have been altered by humans, definitionally making it “gain of function.”
Paul stated that the information “explicitly matches the definition of gain-of-function research,” while Fauci had said, “This paper was judged by qualified staff up and down the chain as not being gain-of-function.”

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Here Are The COVID Authoritarians Who Will Soon Walk The Halls Of America’s Elite Universities

Here Are The COVID Authoritarians Who Will Soon Walk The Halls Of America's Elite Universities

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Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) chief <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anthony-fauci" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Anthony Fauci</a> will move on from advising those in the highest levels of the U.S. government to training the next generation of doctors. 
Georgetown University announced Monday that Fauci will join the school&#8217;s Department of Medicine as a “Distinguished University Professor,” the school’s highest professional honor. Beginning on July 1, the 82-year-old doctor will be a part of the Division of Infectious Diseases, which provides clinical care, conducts research, and trains future physicians in infectious diseases,” <a href="https://twitter.com/SherylNYT/status/1673376504225611776/photo/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to a Georgetown press release. 
“We are deeply honored to welcome Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, a dedicated public servant, humanitarian and visionary global health leader, to Georgetown,” <a href="https://www.georgetown.edu/news/dr-anthony-fauci-to-join-georgetown-faculty-as-distinguished-university-professor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Georgetown President John J. DeGioia. “Dr. Fauci has embodied the Jesuit value of being in service to others throughout his career, and we are grateful to have his expertise, strong leadership and commitment to guiding the next generation of leaders to meet the pressing issues of our time.”
Along with the honor of being named a university professor, Fauci was also appointed to Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy, which offers public policy master&#8217;s degrees. 
In December, Fauci stepped down after working for nearly four decades as the director of the NIAID, which falls under the National Institute of Health (NIH). Fauci worked in the federal government for 54 years after joining the NIH in 1968 during the Lyndon Johnson administration. Fauci went on to advise seven presidents, influencing public policy decisions for decades. 
Fauci became the face of the U.S. response to the COVID pandemic after he was tapped by former President Donald Trump in March 2020 to serve on the White House Coronavirus Task Force. The doctor was criticized for his advice during the course of the pandemic, initially telling Americans not to wear masks before changing his recommendation later, leading states and local governments to enact strict mask requirements for months during the pandemic. President Joe Biden named Fauci as the chief medical advisor to the president after taking office in 2021. 
Fauci faced intense backlash after he said under oath before Congress that NIH “has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research” at the Chinese lab where many speculate COVID likely leaked from. Documents obtained by <a href="https://theintercept.com/2021/09/09/covid-origins-gain-of-function-research/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Intercept</a> appear to show that the NIH did fund gain-of-function research at the lab, contrary to Fauci’s testimony. 
Fauci’s retirement from the NIAID came into question last week when Sen. Rand Paul, who famously <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz7OGxb9X6E" target="_blank" rel="noopener">clashed</a> with Fauci during COVID Senate hearings, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/retired-or-not-sen-rand-paul-demands-dr-faucis-employment-status-from-biden-administration">demanded</a> to know if Fauci was still receiving taxpayer dollars based on ambiguous statements made by the doctor before his retirement. 
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&#8220;While many interpreted these statements to mean Dr. Fauci would be ending his employment with the federal government in December 2022, it is not clear if that is in fact the case,&#8221; Paul wrote.
&#8220;This raises questions about Dr. Fauci’s current employment status and whether he is still receiving certain taxpayer-funded benefits associated with active public service, such as legal counsel and protective services,&#8221; the senator added.
Georgetown’s announcement indicates that Fauci is officially moving on from his work in the federal government as he confirmed that he is looking forward to joining the university. 
“I am delighted to join the Georgetown family, an institution steeped in clinical and academic excellence with an emphasis on the Jesuit tradition of public service,” Fauci said. “This is a natural extension of my scientific, clinical and public health career, which was initially grounded from my high school and college days where I was exposed to intellectual rigor, integrity and service-mindedness of Jesuit institutions.”

Fauci Joins Georgetown As ‘Distinguished University Professor’

Fauci Joins Georgetown As 'Distinguished University Professor'

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House Republicans on the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pandemic-origins-subcommittee-suggests-fauci-prompted-doctors-to-draft-paper-to-disprove-lab-leak-theory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic</a> have subpoenaed one of the authors of a controversial paper on the origins of COVID that cast doubt on the lab leak theory.
The subcommittee, led by Ohio Republican Brad Wenstrup and tasked with investigating the origins of the COVID pandemic, has subpoenaed documents and communications from Dr. Kristian Anderson. Anderson was one of the scientists who helped to draft the “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” paper that cast doubt on earlier theories that COVID may have escaped from a lab. 
“We are following the breadcrumbs of a COVID-19 cover-up straight to the source. Dr. Kristian Andersen played a pivotal role in potentially suppressing the lab leak hypothesis, and Americans deserve to know why this happened, who was involved, and how we can prevent the intentional suppression of scientific discourse during a future pandemic,” Wenstrup said in a <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/wenstrup-announces-first-subpoena-for-proximal-origins-author-kristian-andersens-private-communications-with-co-authors%EF%BF%BC/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. 
The widely criticized article co-authored by Anderson, published in March 2020, said that it was clear that COVID was not developed in a lab. “Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus,” the abstract of the <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> says. 
Since that time, multiple reports, including <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-intel-prompts-energy-dept-to-assess-covid-likely-leaked-from-wuhan-lab-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports from the Department of Energy</a> and Senate Republicans, have suggested that the once widely mocked lab leak theory appears to be increasingly plausible. 
The subcommittee <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Andersen-Kristian-subpoena_06.23.23.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hopes to obtain</a> Slack messages sent or received by Anderson pertaining to the drafting, publication, and critical reception of the paper. They also asked for messages and documentation on the Wuhan Coronavirus Lab, gain of function research, and other discussions of the pandemic’s origin. 
Messages from Anthony Fauci, Francis Collins, and a number of other scientists are also requested by the subcommittee. 
“It is clear that the authors of ‘Proximal Origins’ may have possessed conflicts of interest for supporting a zoonotic origin of COVID-19. Fully investigating the internal messages between the co-authors and contributors is a crucial step to inform future legislation and hold guilty parties accountable. The Select Subcommittee looks forward to Dr. Andersen’s speedy and comprehensive response to today’s subpoena,” Wenstrup said.  
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A report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence <a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Report-on-Potential-Links-Between-the-Wuhan-Institute-of-Virology-and-the-Origins-of-COVID-19-20230623.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released Friday evening</a> shows that some federal agencies believe a lab leak is likely while others favor the natural emergence of COVID. 
According to the report, the FBI and the Department of Energy “assess that a laboratory-associated incident” was the most likely cause of COVID. The report says that “almost all” intelligence community agencies do not believe that the virus was genetically modified.

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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/rand-paul" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rand Paul</a> (R-KY) criticized former President Donald Trump this week for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-on-fauci-i-was-not-actually-allowed-to-fire-him-but-i-wouldnt-usually-let-that-get-in-my-way" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claiming</a> during an interview that he could not fire Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, saying that even if that were true, there was no reason why Trump had to put Fauci in charge of managing the U.S. government&#8217;s response to the pandemic.
&#8220;He should not be so proud of keeping Fauci around,&#8221; Paul told Fox News host Jesse Watters. &#8220;Fauci was a menace to the truth. Talk about a fount of misinformation, it&#8217;s Anthony Fauci. More misinformation came out of the government than any other source. So he should have fired him.&#8221;
When asked if he thought Fauci was going to play a big role in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, Paul said, &#8220;It may because Fauci did stick around.&#8221;
&#8220;There may be civil service rules about actually firing him, but there&#8217;s no reason he had to head up the pandemic committee, the COVID Committee,&#8221; Paul said. &#8220;So he was on the committee. In fact, if not the lead, he was the committee with the vice president. They met all of the time.&#8221;
<p class="paragraph inline-placeholder" data-uri="archive.cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/paragraph_78AAD95C-73DD-1A7B-809A-4A0679DA922D@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-analytics-observe="off">Under federal civil service law, Trump did not have the power to directly fire Fauci, although he could have  ordered political appointees to begin termination proceedings if they had cause, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/13/politics/can-trump-fire-fauci/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to CNN</a>. Trump could have diminished Fauci&#8217;s role in press briefings and the making and implementation of COVID policy, however.
Paul said that Fauci &#8220;pushed out&#8221; then-CDC Director Robert Redfield from the committee, who Paul said was &#8220;the one sane voice on the committee.&#8221;
&#8220;The one thing that could have saved thousands of lives before the vaccine, was that the nurses and the assistants and the people taking care of people in the nursing home, we should have put people in those positions who had already been infected and recovered, knowing that naturally acquired immunity would then protect those senior citizens from getting infected,&#8221; Paul said. &#8220;And we never did that because Fauci kept saying, &#8216;well, we&#8217;re not sure, we&#8217;re not sure.'&#8221;
&#8220;Well, immunity, we are pretty certain of,&#8221; Paul added. &#8220;That&#8217;s what vaccines are based on his naturally acquired immunity from the disease. We try to simulate that with a vaccine. So &#8212; but by denying it, I think many lives were cost, and there would have been a better way, I think, under the Trump administration to marginalize and push Fauci out of the spotlight and keep his nonsense and his misinformation from infecting the rest of us.&#8221;
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Sen. <a href="https://twitter.com/RandPaul?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RandPaul</a> rips Trump for keeping Fauci around:
&quot;He should not be so proud of keeping Fauci around. Fauci was a menace to the truth. Talk about a fount of misinformation. It&#39;s Anthony Fauci. More misinformation came out of the government than any other source, so he should… <a href="https://t.co/7PgKg1AnQj">pic.twitter.com/7PgKg1AnQj</a>
&mdash; Scott Morefield (@SKMorefield) <a href="https://twitter.com/SKMorefield/status/1671307345236770817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 21, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Senator Rand Paul Hits Trump For Saying He Couldn’t Fire Fauci During Pandemic

Senator Rand Paul Hits Trump For Saying He Couldn't Fire Fauci During Pandemic

Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> said during an interview this week that he did not fire Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, because he was &#8220;not actually allowed to fire him,&#8221; but that he would normally do it anyway.
Trump made the remarks during a Fox News interview with anchor Bret Baier that aired Tuesday evening.
During the interview, Trump claimed that people tell him he saved 100 million people around the world, but that &#8220;I don’t even talk about it.&#8221;
&#8220;I said, I really don’t want to talk about it because, as a Republican, it’s not a great thing to talk about because, for some reason, it’s just not,” Trump said.
“For some reason?” Baier probed.
“Yeah, for some reason,” Trump responded. “Because, people love the vaccines, and people hate the vaccines. But, conservatives aren’t — and I understand both sides of it, by the way. I understand both sides very well. What I didn’t do is the mandates — the mandates and the vaccines don’t go.”
Trump immediately sought to shift gears by attacking Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, claiming that DeSantis &#8220;loved Fauci.&#8221;
Baier responded, “Sure, but you didn’t fire him. You listened to him, you kept him on.”
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“You’re not actually allowed to fire him,&#8221; Trump claimed, &#8220;but I wouldn’t let that usually get in my way. You know, it’s one of those things. But you have a lot of people that love the vaccines, I mean, you do. They happen to be more Democrat than they are Republican.”
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Trump says he saved the lives of 100 million people, but says &quot;for some reason&quot; people don&#39;t like the COVID vaccines his administration developed. 
When Bret Baier noted that Trump didn&#39;t fire Dr. Anthony Fauci, Trump responded, “Well he’s the civil service, you are not actually… <a href="https://t.co/BqEYzJkdS4">pic.twitter.com/BqEYzJkdS4</a>
&mdash; Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1671631477409472512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 21, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Trump On Fauci: I Was ‘Not Actually Allowed To Fire Him, But I Wouldn’t Usually Let That Get In My Way’

Trump On Fauci: I Was 'Not Actually Allowed To Fire Him, But I Wouldn't Usually Let That Get In My Way'

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