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Dr. K's avatar

Marty, You are far, far too kind. The one essential in public health is you never lie. Fauci started out by lying about masks -- he knew that advocating them was a lie. And the First Lie was the Worst Lie. Since gullible people sucked that up ('look, Ma...we're doing something") all the following lies (anti-social distancing, quarantines of healthy people, you name it) were also able to be propagated.

I have never seen more people advocate for studies of masking but not do them. You, Vinay -- you have hundreds of RCTs going, but no one will take one on for masking? Yet everyone whines about why someone else hasn't done one? I fail to understand this. Perhaps you can explain it to me? I am certain we could come up with reasoned funding for it -- why will no one do it?

In any case (and I have sat on committees with Tony) the lying shifted my assessment from incompetent to non-forgivable...as I noted above, the one unforgivable sin in public health. There is much more to be fixed than tweaking on NIH research scheduling.

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The Critical Middle's avatar

We need to de-fund the NIH, CDC and FDA.

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