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Six String Sacrament's avatar

This substack is vital to my understanding of the world. Thank you, Doctor!

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

I think real science died in the mid-1980s with the AIDS/HIV crisis. That became a politicized disease that might not even be a disease to the the vast majority of people who were diagnosed with it.

RFK, Jr. documents what happened in The Real Anthony Fauci. At first Fauci said, this was a disease transmitted by promiscuous gay men, probably starting in bath houses. The gay community felt attacked and didn't like this one bit. The new NIAID director, Anthony Fauci, the master of turning you-know what into cherry pie, quickly pivoted, huddled with gay activists and the narrative became this is a disease that's a threat to "everyone." Millions might die. He also went along with the narrative, probably false, that HIV = AIDS and vice versa. And he kept promising a dadgum .... vaccine (which never materialized).

He also fast-tracked, recycled and approved a toxic and failed chemotherapy cancer drug, AZT, as the miracle treatment for AIDS/HIV. That decision no doubt killed as many people as his later decision to green-light remdesivir for Covid patients.

Anyway, after the Great AIDS scare, science and medicine were never the same - medical science was no longer interested in testing hypothesis and solving medical problems with logic. Science became "politically correct." If you went against the authorized PC science - as endorsed by Fauci - you were finished as a serious scientists ... and everybody quickly figured this out.

Fauci, who was almost run out of town early in his tenure because of his early views on AIDS, became the most powerful person in medicine and science in the world. His obscure agency, which might have been shut down, saw its budget go through the roof. He became the J. Edgar Hoover of public health - and one of the history's greatest mass murderers.

Today he's feted as a hero and is the wealthiest former government bureaucrat in U.S. history. Mr. "Science himself" actually killed real science.

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