Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former Chief Medical Advisor to the President, has admitted in testimony that some of his pandemic decisions were not backed by hard science.
It looks like the self-professed human embodiment of science is also full of you-know-what.
Ahead of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s public testimony Monday before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, Republicans released a transcript of their January sit-down with the pandemic poobah.
And, boy, was it revelatory.
In it, he essentially admitted major parts of his prescription for the public were not, in fact, backed by science — in particular, masking children and the social-distancing mandate of six feet as the magic mitigator.
The former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director, who retired in December 2022 after decades at the helm, was pressed on how the six-foot standard came to be.
“You know, I don’t recall,” he said. “It sort of just appeared.”
Asked if he recalled any studies that supported it, he said: “I was not aware of studies that … in fact would be a very difficult study to do.”
Maybe someone just liked the number six?
As for recalling any data that supported masks for children as young as 2, Fauci was unable to definitively say.
“I might have … but I don’t recall specifically that I did,” he said.
“Was there ever a cost-benefit analysis done on the unintended consequences of masking kids versus the protection that it would give them?” a committee staff member asked him.
