In his biography of Dr. Fauci, author Terry Michael described the drug approval system that NIAID nurtured post-AZT: “What has evolved into the HIVAIDS industry is supported by a knowledge monopoly, comprised of federal government bureaucratic authorities led by Dr. Anthony Fauci, who hands out billions of dollars in research grants, who collude with crony capitalists from international pharmaceutical cartels, who distribute billions to AIDS advocacy non-profits, and whose official stories are communicated to the public by a science-illiterate mass media. With few exceptions, it is a media populated by journalists who don’t even attempt to understand the science. These journalistic interpreters of those they label scientists are pawns in the hands of authorities in long-sleeved, white laboratory coats. That chief authority about HIVAIDS, Dr. Fauci, has tightly held the purse strings on all HIVAIDS research since he was appointed head of the NIAID in November 1984.”132
As Michael suggests, the unique skill sets that allowed Dr. Fauci’s extraordinary longevity and continuing public credibility—despite his miserable record of preventing and managing chronic and infectious disease—were his gifts for weaponizing media relationships, magically deploying journalists to promote his self-serving narratives, and relentlessly silence dissent.
“Dissent was effectively shut down in mass-mediated public discourse,” Michaels observes. “And it was scrubbed from peer reviewed science and medical journals, which reap significant revenue from drug company advertisements for antiretroviral drugs. Journal revenue is also derived from expensive annual subscriptions, purchased with funds from tens of thousands of HIVAIDS related grants, funded by US taxpayers—if approved by Anthony Fauci.”133
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His success at using the AIDS crisis to bring a deadly, toxic, and ineffective AIDS drug to market taught Dr. Fauci some key career lessons that he would faithfully repeat again and again and again throughout his long regime.
During his battle to win FDA approval for AZT, Dr. Fauci pioneered the strategies upon which he would build his career and then showcase for the world during the COVID epidemic. These include:
? pumping up pandemic fears to lay the groundwork for larger budgets and greater powers,
? incriminating an elusive pathogen,
? fanning hysteria by exaggerating disease transmissibility,
? periodically stoking waning fear levels by warning of mutant super-strains and future surges,
? suggesting substantial changes in how people live, ostensibly to save their lives,
? keeping the public and politicians engaged through confusing and contradictory pronouncements,
? using faulty PCR and antibody tests and manipulating epidemiology to inflate non-verifiable case and death numbers, to maximize the perception of an imminent calamity,
? ignoring and dismissing effective off-the-shelf therapeutic remedies,
? directing energy and money toward profitable new patented drugs and vaccines,
? championing dangerous and ineffective drugs originating in government laboratories as the only winning solution to end the pandemic,
? funding and orchestrating confirmation-biased research to validate his chosen remedy,
? partnering with large pharmaceutical companies and giving his partners advantages in the race for approval,
? allowing preferred companies to skip key testing metrics,
? curtailing clinical trials to conceal severe safety and efficacy problems,
? sabotaging, discrediting, and sweeping aside more effective therapies, antiretrovirals, off-the-shelf remedies, and non-patentable medicines that might compete with his new patented antiretrovirals and vaccines,
? subjecting competitive products to efficacy and safety studies that are designed to fail,
? allowing thousands of sick patients to suffer and die by denying them access to demonstrably effective competitive remedies, by publicly protesting the existing remedies were not subject to “randomized placebo testing,”
? controlling the key “independent” committees (DSMB, VRBPAC, ACIP) that approve and mandate new drugs by populating them with his own hand-picked PIs,
? presenting these agencies as “independent” and trustworthy experts,
? using the Emergency Use Authorization to fast-track the concoctions through a rigged approval process to market,
? using official government propaganda to market his concoctions,
? employing “Science by Press Release” to control narratives,
? making exaggerated claims for the efficacy of his products,
? using pervious and ineffective post-marketing surveillance systems to conceal mass injuries and deaths from the public,
? papering over all these testing deficiencies by crafting and promoting enduring narratives about the benefits, safety, and efficacy,
? citing “leading experts” to promote hypotheses that are practically never scientifically verified with peer-reviewed studies or appropriate controls,
? allowing pharmaceutical companies to charge Medicare, government programs, and insurance companies inflated prices bearing no relationships to cost,
? ensuring that research funding is restricted to projects supporting the dogma, excluding research into alternative hypotheses,
? preventing debate and censoring dissenting voices in popular media, social media, and scientific publications, and
? promising ultimate salvation with vaccines.
In addition, Dr. Fauci honed the skill of always speaking with authority—even when making contradictory assertions with no scientific basis—to rapidly reshape all government pronouncements into dogma, efficiently perpetuated in a quasi-religious manner by the media.
By repeatedly using these formulas for fifty years, Fauci directed his agency away from its core responsibility—basic research on infectious, allergic, and autoimmune diseases that have become epidemic since he took over NIAID—and transformed his agency into a profit-making appendage for itself and for Big Pharma.
Mark Twain once observed that “It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” AIDS activist Christine Maggiore lamented this feature of human gullibility when she assessed the mendacious fifty-year travesty of corrupted public health research that Tony Fauci put in motion during the 1984 AIDS crisis: “Commercial interests are definitely part of the problem here, and it’s also our collective inability or challenge to say, ‘All this time, all these years, all these lives, all these billions and billions of dollars. Can we just stop a second and go back to the very beginning and make sure we got this right?’ I mean, that is so hard to do. People don’t even know it’s a lie. It’s not so much a lie as business as usual.”134
Endnotes
1 “The First AIDS Drugs,” National Cancer Institute Center for Cancer Research – Landmarks (2017, P 18), https://ccr.cancer.gov/sites/default/files/landmarks_2017_web-508.pdf
2 Peter H. Duesberg, Inventing the AIDS Virus (Regnery Publishing Inc. 1996), 315.
3 Ibid, 309.
4 Simon Garfield, “The Rise and Fall of AZT: It was the drug that had to work. It brought hope to people with HIV and AIDS, and millions for the company that developed it. It had to work. There was nothing else. But for many who used AZT—it didn’t.” Independent (Oct. 23, 2001, 02:44), https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/rise-and-fall-azt-it-was-drug-had-work-it-brought-hope-people-hiv-and-aids-and-millions-company-developed-it-it-had-work-there-was-nothing-else-many-who-used-azt-it-didn-t-2320491.html
5 Marlene Cimons, “Who Pays for Experimental Drugs? AIDS Drug AZT May Cost Patients $10,000 a Year,” Los Angeles Times (Mar 11, 1987), https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-03-11-mn-10107-story.html