Fauci's activist allies seemed to understand the game, staging attacks on Fauci, both playing their part to gain more money for HIV research.
Fauci is more reasonable when he takes credit for the 2003 creation of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief program, through which the US sent effective HIV medications to several African nations.
In the early days of the war on terror, Fauci became head of civilian biodefense, with the mandate to develop and stockpile countermeasures to biowarfare agents.
Fauci leveraged his deep knowledge of the federal bureaucracy, streamlining federal contracting rules to issue "Sole source contracts" and "Rapid research grants" to create constituencies of companies and scientists who depended on Fauci for their success.
Fauci's organization funded an American outfit, EcoHealth Alliance, which worked with scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
A review of Fauci's memoir is not the place to settle the dispute.
In judging Fauci's record as a scientist and a bureaucrat, it's worth knowing that in 2020, Fauci and his boss, Francis Collins, failed to empanel public discussions and debates on this vital topic.
As with Duesberg, Fauci sought to destroy the careers of dissenting scientists.
Fauci implausibly writes that he "Was not locking down the country" and "Had no power to control anything." These statements are belied by Fauci's own bragging about his influence on a host of policy responses, including convincing Trump to lock the country down in March 2020 and extend the lockdown in April.
In May 2020, Fauci said that schools should reopen, conditional on "The landscape of infection with regard to testing." But he also recommended six-foot social distancing, based on no evidence-a policy that made it nearly impossible to open schools.
Fauci opposed churches holding services and mass, even outdoors, despite the lack of evidence that the disease spread there.
https://brownstone.org/articles/anthony-fauci-the-man-who-thought-he-was-science/
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