Questioning the Science  John Stossel Posted: Dec 22, 2021

When people criticize Dr. Anthony Fauci, he says: "They're really criticizing science. Because I represent science."

Pretty arrogant.

I assume Fauci is a top-notch scientist. My brother worked with him at the National Institutes of Health and respected him.

But power tends to corrupt, and Fauci has been given a lot of power.

His department directed tax dollars to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to modify coronaviruses in bats.

When Sen. Rand Paul asked Fauci about funding "gain of function" research, experiments that try to learn more about a disease by making it more  contagious or deadly, Fauci denied it, saying, "Sen. Paul, you do not know what you are talking about!"

But it turns out that Paul did know what he was talking about.

The Wuhan experiments Fauci funded did not directly cause COVID-19. We know that because the molecular structure of the altered viruses is different.

But gain-of-function research is risky and deserves public discussion.

I like that Paul, unlike most of his colleagues, pushes for that discussion. In my new video, he says he does this because it's important "not only for assessing what happened and how this pandemic arose, but making sure it doesn't happen again."

Originally, "experts" claimed COVID-19 came from animals in the wet market in Wuhan. But now "experts" say that COVID-19 might have come from a lab

"This has become so polarized that you're either completely in the bag with Fauci or completely opposed to him," says Paul. "There is no one wanting to actually get to the truth of where this came from or understand that this could happen again."

I ask Paul what he thought about Fauci's flat dismissal of anyone who criticizes him.

"That's an incredibly arrogant attitude," replied Paul. "Reminiscent of the medieval church (where) the government representative decided what was science ... Any time you have government dogma saying they are science, or government bureaucrats who claim that 'this is the one and perfect truth' ... we should run headlong away."

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