Fauci’s ‘Open Mind’ Fakery

Hit by an expert report concluding that COVID likely leaked from that Wuhan lab, Dr. Anthony Fauci dodged by saying, “We may never know” the origins of the pandemic but “must all keep an open mind.”

Bull. Fauci has a miles-long track record of utter closed-mindedness about COVID’s origins, going back to the very start of the pandemic — an effort in which he was aided at every step of the way by a compliant media.

• In April 2020, the doc called the lab-leak theory “a shiny object that will go away.”

• That same month, he said the virus’ “mutations” were “totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human.”

• In a May 2020 National Geographic interview, he said, “Everything . . . strongly indicates” the virus “evolved in nature” and called the lab-leak theory a “circular argument.”

• In March 2021, he slammed former Center for Disease Control head Robert Redfield’s belief in the lab-leak hypothesis as merely “an opinion.”

• June saw him saying, “The most likely origin is from an animal species to a human.”

• In October, he claimed it was “molecularly impossible” for the viruses being worked on in Wuhan to have mutated into the one responsible for the pandemic.

• The next month, he claimed congressional Republicans grilling him on the issue were tainted by “a distinct anti-science flavor.”

Fauci plainly desperately wanted the theory to go away, likely to avoid scrutiny of his own role in funding gain-of-function research at that same Wuhan lab.

Indeed, questioned on that subject before Congress, he lied and lied and lied — only to be PROVED a liar when the National Institutes of Health admitted passing funds to the Wuhan Institute of Virology via the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance.

Now the media outlets that backed him up every step as he fought to suppress all dissent will abet his latest bid to paint himself as a broad-minded seeker of scientific truth.

It’s hard to say which is worse: the servility of the press or the arrogance of Fauci.