What dark flaw in Anthony Fauci’s character allowed him to oversee—and then to cover up—the atrocities at Incarnation Children’s Center? At very best, there must be some arrogance or imperiousness that enables Dr. Fauci to rationalize the suffering and deaths of children as acceptable collateral damage in what he sees as his noble search for new public health innovations. At worst, he is a sociopath who has pushed science into the realm of sadism. Recent disclosures support the latter interpretation.
Freedom of Information documents obtained in January 2021 by the White Coat Waste project show that Dr. Fauci approved a $424,000 NIAID grant in 2020 for experiments in which dogs were bitten to death by flies.58 The insects carried a disease-carrying parasite that can affect humans. The researchers strapped capsules containing infected flies to the bare skin of twenty-eight healthy beagle puppies and kept them in agonizing suffering for 196 days before euthanizing them. NIAID acknowledged it subjected other animals, including mice, Mongolian gerbils, and rhesus monkeys to similar experiments.
That same year, Dr. Fauci’s agency gave $400,000 to University of Pittsburgh scientists to graft the scalps of aborted fetuses onto living mice and rats.59, 60 NIAID sought to develop rat and mouse “models” using “full-thickness fetal skin” to “provide a platform for studying human skin infections.” Dr. Fauci’s sidekick and putative boss, Francis Collins—who casts himself as a pious Catholic—kicked in a $1.1 million sweetener from NIH for this malignant project.
Of all the desperate public health needs in America, of all the pain that a well-spent $2 million might alleviate, Tony Fauci and his government confederates deemed these demented and inhumane experiments the most worthwhile expenditures of America’s taxpayer dollars.
These disclosures beg many other questions: From what moral wilderness did the monsters who devised and condoned these experiments descend upon our idealistic country? How have they lately come to exercise such tyrannical power over our citizens? What sort of nation are we if we allow them to continue? Most trenchantly, does it not make sense that the malevolent minds, the elastic ethics, the appalling judgment, the arrogance, and savagery that sanctioned the barbaric brutalization of children at the Incarceration Convent House, and the torture of animals for industry profit, could also concoct a moral justification for suppressing lifesaving remedies and prolonging a deadly epidemic? Could these same dark alchemists justify a strategy of prioritizing their $48 billion vaccine project ahead of public health and human life? Did similar hubris—that deadly human impulse to play God—pave the lethal path to Wuhan and fuel the reckless decision to hack the codes of Creation and fabricate diabolical new forms of life—pandemic superbugs—in a ramshackle laboratory with scientists linked to the Chinese military?
On my birthday in January 1961, three days before I watched my uncle John F. Kennedy take his oath as president of the United States, outgoing President Dwight Eisenhower, in his farewell address, warned our country about the emergence of a Military Industrial Complex that would obliterate our democracy. In that speech, Eisenhower made an equally urgent—although less celebrated—warning against the emergence of a federal bureaucracy, which, he believed, posed an equally dire threat to America’s Constitution and her values:
In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government. Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded. . . . [We] must . . . be alert to the danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite.
Eisenhower demanded that we guard against this insipid brand of tyranny, by entrusting our government to responsible officials ever-vigilant against the deadly gravities of technocratic power and industry money that would pull our nation away from democracy and humanity and into diabolical dystopian savagery:
It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system—ever aiming toward the supreme goals of our free society.
During his half-century as a government official, Dr. Fauci has utterly failed in this charge. As we shall see, he has used his control of billions of dollars to manipulate and control scientific research to promote his own, and NIAID’s, institutional self-interest and private profits for his pharma partners to the detriment of America’s values, her health, and her liberties. Of late, he has played a central role in undermining public health and subverting democracy and constitutional governance around the globe and in transitioning our civil governance toward medical totalitarianism. Just as President Eisenhower warned. Dr. Fauci’s COVID-19 response has steadily deconstructed our democracy and elevated the powers of a tyrannical medical technocracy.
Endnotes
1 Stanley Plotkin, “Ethics of Human Experimentation,” Letter to the editor, New England Journal of Medicine (1973), https://sci-hub.se/10.1056/NEJM197309132891123
2 Elisabeth Mahase, “Vaccine hesitancy: an interview with Stanley Plotkin, rubella vaccine developer,” BMJ (December 23, 2019), https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l6926
3 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., “CDC’s Latest Tuskegee Experiment African American Autism and Vaccines,” Children’s Health Defense (Jun. 25, 2015), https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/cdcs-latest-tuskegee-experiment-african-american-autism-vaccines/
4 Barbara Loe Fisher, “Measles Vaccine Experiment on Minority Children Turn Deadly,” The Vaccine Reaction (Jun., 1996), https://www.nvic.org/nvic-archives/newsletter/vaccinereactionjune1996.aspx
5 Brian S. Hooker, Ph.D., PE, “Reanalysis of CDC Data on Autism Incidence and Time of First MMR Vaccination,” Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, Volume 23, Number 4; Winter, 2018. https://www.jpands.org/vol23no4/hooker.pdf
6 Molly Roberts, “Anthony Fauci built a truce. Trump is destroying it,” Washington Post, The Opinions Essay (July 16, 2020), https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/16/anthony-fauci-built-truce-trump-is-destroying-it/?arc404=true
7 Edited transcript of three PBS interviews with Dr. Anthony Fauci conducted Jan. 28, March 10, and June 5, 2005 (posted May 30, 2006), https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/aids/interviews/fauci.html