Written by Amanda Angulo
On Sunday, Sen. Rand Paul and Sen. Ted Cruz criticized Dr. Anthony Fauci for accusing his critics of being “anti-science”. Just because Cruz and Paul are able to justifiably call out Fauci over his lies and pursuit to control people in America, Fauci’s defense was that those who criticize him are “anti-science”.
This previous month, Sen. Cruz had even called on Attorney General Garland to appoint a prosecutor to investigate Dr. Fauci after claiming that the NIH did not fund research. On Sunday, Fauci responded to this with, “I should be prosecuted? What happened on January 6th, Senator?”
Cruz fired back on Twitter stating, “an unelected technocrat who has distorted science and facts in order to exercise authoritarian control over millions of Americans.” He continued to write in a twitter thread, “On May 11, Fauci testifies before a Senate Committee that ‘the NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” but that “on October 20, NIH wrote they funded an experiment at the Wuhan lab testing of ‘spike proteins from naturally occurring bat coronaviruses circulating in China were capable of binding to the human ACE2 receptor in a mouse module.’ That is gain of function research.”
There is a contradiction here, in which either the NIH is telling the truth or Dr. Fauci, but when have we known for Fauci to ever tell us the truth, when he has been soaring through lies?
Fauci also claimed on Sunday that there is “a distinct anti-science flavor to this,” and he even continued to say, “so it’s easy to criticize…but they’re really criticizing science, because I represent science. That’s dangerous.”
Sen. Rand Paul responded to this on Twitter by writing, “the absolute hubris of someone claiming THEY represent science,” and continued, “It’s astounding and alarming that a public health bureaucrat would even think to claim such a thing, especially one who has worked so hard to ignore the science of natural immunity.” Paul and Fauci have consistently argued with each other over COVID policies and gain-of-function research.
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