Fauci’s ‘science’ fiction

Sens. Rand Paul and Ted Cruz blasted Dr. Anthony Fauci after the White House chief medical adviser accused his critics of being “anti-science.”

On CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday, moderator Margaret Brennan mentioned legislation introduced by Republicans that would limit or halt federal funding for “gain-of-function” research, in which viruses are modified to increase their virulence.

“Anybody [who] spins, lies and threatens and all that theater that goes on with some of the investigations and the congressional committees and the Rand Pauls and all that other nonsense, that’s noise,” Fauci (inset) said, later adding: “I’m just going to do my job. And I’m going to be saving lives, and they’re going to be lying.”

Cruz responded, calling Fauci “an unelected technocrat who has distorted science and facts in order to exercise authoritarian control over millions of Americans.”

Paul responded to another part of the interview, in which Fauci said: “Anybody who’s looking at this carefully realizes that there’s a distinct anti-science flavor to this. So if they get up and criticize science, nobody’s going to know what they’re talking about. But if they get up and really aim their bullets at Tony Fauci, well, people could recognize, there’s a person there.

“So it’s easy to criticize,” Fauci added. “But they’re really criticizing science, because I represent science. That’s dangerous.”

“The absolute hubris of someone claiming THEY represent science,” Paul tweeted. “It’s astounding and alarming that a public health bureaucrat would even think to claim such a thing.”