Honoring Dr. Fauci's Legacy in Advancing Public Health

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Today, Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies on Capitol Hill for the first time since retiring from public service, marking a significant moment for reflection on his profound impact on public health. Having served alongside Dr. Fauci, I am compelled to share my experience working with this esteemed public servant.

 

During my tenure as the longest-serving Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), I witnessed firsthand the invaluable contributions of leaders like Dr. Fauci. An article by The Washington Post in 2001 recognized me as "one of the most successful government managers of modern times," a success attributable to the gifted leaders and world-class scientists in public service, including Dr. Fauci. His accolades include the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded by President George W. Bush, underscoring his remarkable achievements over more than five decades.

 

As director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Dr. Fauci spearheaded unprecedented scientific investments and breakthroughs. His work was pivotal in developing antiretroviral treatments for HIV/AIDS, significantly improving the lives of countless individuals worldwide. Under his leadership, NIAID advanced our understanding and response to infectious diseases, reinforcing America's health and security.

 

Throughout his career, Dr. Fauci has been dedicated to promoting the safety and efficacy of vaccines and restoring public trust in science. His approach is rooted in core scientific principles: honesty, transparency, flexibility, and humility. He has consistently emphasized that science evolves and that ongoing learning is crucial.

 

Dr. Fauci's leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic exemplified his commitment to public health. He, along with other public health officials, navigated the complexities of the pandemic using evolving scientific data, tirelessly working to mitigate the virus's impact. Their efforts were vital in reducing the threat posed by this unprecedented health crisis.

 

The pandemic has caused immense devastation and frustration, leading to misplaced anger towards public health officials like Dr. Fauci. Such hostility can have severe consequences, potentially weakening our country's ability to prevent and prepare for future pandemics. It is crucial to recognize and honor the dedication of our public health officials to safeguard our communities and national security.

 

We must commit to supporting our public health infrastructure and officials, working together constructively to address future threats. Honoring leaders like Dr. Fauci, who have dedicated their lives to public health, is essential for maintaining the integrity and effectiveness of our health systems.

 

Donna Shalala is a former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services and a former Democratic member of Congress representing Florida’s 27th District. She led the University of Miami, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Hunter College, and currently serves as interim president of The New School in New York City. Shalala received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush.

 

Credit: The Hill 2024-06-04

 

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[Tug]

Quite the fine example of a life of service to us here in America and the rest of the world thanks DOC you are loved and respected amongst the normal people here in America.Of course cro magum woman the bleach blond bad built butch body Trump tody Marge the barge wants him up on charges of crimes against humanity lmao 🤣 oh boy I expect this particular thread to get a fair amount of the same sc@t……

[0james0]

2 hours ago, Social Media said:

Dr. Anthony Fauci

Arrogant narcissist.

[stevenl]

21 minutes ago, 0james0 said:

Arrogant narcissist.

He choose the wrong career path then. 

[tandor]

39 minutes ago, stevenl said:

He choose the wrong career path then. 

i thought he was a Microbiologist/Virologist, not a Botanist.

[Srikcir]

3 hours ago, 0james0 said:

Arrogant narcissist.

Trump wasn't being questioned.

[johng]

He and his minions belong in jail for crimes against humanity.

 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-comes-unglued-turns-fauci-hearing-into-absolute-shtshow

[Purdey]

I love that people without a PhD in science always know more than the guy who studied science for decades. Ho hum.

[BangkokHank]

11 minutes ago, Purdey said:

I love that people without a PhD in science always know more than the guy who studied science for decades. Ho hum.

The world's top scientists find what they are paid to find, and don't find what they are paid not to find.

[Tug]

Yup 5 out of 10 posts…..sad

[ignore it]

No comment, but make that 6 out of 10.

[johng]

Dr McCormick  made an interesting statement.

 

 

[Purdey]

2 hours ago, BangkokHank said:

The world's top scientists find what they are paid to find, and don't find what they are paid not to find.

And you know that because you are a top scientist?

[johng]

Top scientists,doctors,politicians or anyone else who did not go along with the narrative  where censored de-platformed,maligned,threatened and ridiculed.

 

There are now a growing number of people who went along with the narrative but have now changed their tune Chris Cuomo, Piers Morgon,Dr Drew,Robert Redfield,Kerryn Phelps,Dr Aseem Malhotra  for example.

[roquefort]

59 minutes ago, Purdey said:

And you know that because you are a top scientist?

He knows that because even a bit of basic research will show you that up to 50% of scientific papers contain fake data or cannot be replicated. Some of these have to be retracted but many are not, so the true extent of the problem is unknown. What is perfectly clear is that if as a scientist you produce research which doesn't support the agenda of your grant donors........guess what? No more funding i.e. career suicide.

[Amethyst]

A pair of posts with unsourced and unsubstantiated purported factual claims has been removed, along with a trolling meme post.

 

Per the forum's rules:

 

"In factual areas such as news forums and current affairs topics member content that is claimed or portrayed as a fact should be supported by a link to a relevant reputable source."

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

1 hour ago, johng said:

Dr McCormick  made an interesting statement.

 

 

 

This Dr. McCormick, before he became a member of Congress:

Physician running for congress in GA comes under fire for spreading misinformation

Updated: 6:42 PM EDT September 29, 2021

 

ATLANTA — Critics say a physician running for congress in Georgia has spread misinformation on masks and for some COVID vaccines. Dr. Rich McCormick is a physician who came close to winning the 7th district congressional race last year, and he's running for it again next year.

...

Recently, McCormick has become somewhat regular on NewsMax, a cable channel that surged in popularity among conservatives in 2020.

 

"I think the delta variant is being blown out of proportion. We're not seeing the mortality rate spike. We're not seeing people hospitalized en masse. We're not seeing them go to the ICU," McCormick told NewsMax on July 8, just weeks before hospitalizations and mortality started to surge.

 

During the same NewsMax interview, he also falsely claimed that children are not at risk.

 

(more)

 

https://www.11alive.com/article/news/politics/critics-physician-running-for-congress-in-georgia-sidesteps-science/85-d6bf03d9-9efe-4a13-be81-074023b698f8

 

 

[roquefort]

8 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

 

This Dr. McCormick, before he became a member of Congress:

Physician running for congress in GA comes under fire for spreading misinformation

Updated: 6:42 PM EDT September 29, 2021

 

ATLANTA — Critics say a physician running for congress in Georgia has spread misinformation on masks and for some COVID vaccines. Dr. Rich McCormick is a physician who came close to winning the 7th district congressional race last year, and he's running for it again next year.

...

Recently, McCormick has become somewhat regular on NewsMax, a cable channel that surged in popularity among conservatives in 2020.

 

"I think the delta variant is being blown out of proportion. We're not seeing the mortality rate spike. We're not seeing people hospitalized en masse. We're not seeing them go to the ICU," McCormick told NewsMax on July 8, just weeks before hospitalizations and mortality started to surge.

 

During the same NewsMax interview, he also falsely claimed that children are not at risk.

 

(more)

 

https://www.11alive.com/article/news/politics/critics-physician-running-for-congress-in-georgia-sidesteps-science/85-d6bf03d9-9efe-4a13-be81-074023b698f8

 

 

I think you've just proved the point of his speech. Did you listen to it?

[spidermike007]

He is only a hero if you believed the entire narrative and are convinced the vaccines worked, and continue to work. Everyone I know who got vaccinated, got covid. And many I know who did not, either got it, or they didn't. None of them died. Most had mild cases. 

 

Now? I will never again get another covid vaccine. I only got them so I could travel. I trust my immune system far more than vaccines. And I don't trust Fauci, nor the CDC, nor the WHO, nor the FDA. 

[ericbj]

Clearly there are irreconcilable differences of opinion concerning Dr Fauci.

 

However there are TWO aspects to his potential culpability.

 

This article touches upon one of them, not much considered as yet on this forum:

https://www.foxnews.com/media/rand-paul-says-fauci-caught-lies-congress-coronavirus-research-dead-rights

[Purdey]

42 minutes ago, roquefort said:

50% of scientific papers contain fake data

36 minutes ago, roquefort said:

basic research?

I have looked at professional analyses of scientific data that would count as fake but the amount is not 50% -

Martinson et al. (2005), which is one of the largest and most frequently cited surveys on misconduct published to date. This study appears to be rather conservative, because without it the pooled average frequency with which scientists admit they have committed misconduct would jump to nearly 3%. 

 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2685008/

 

Moreover, no one appears to agree with you about Covid vaccine being the problem created using fake information. Scientific research shows it is misinformation on Facebook and Twitter that causes people to believe "they are out to get us." It is just not proven by the scientific community.

 

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk3451  (2024)

 

Perhaps you should provide a link to the research proving the vaccine data was faked (NOT Facebook) so I and others can see for ourselves.

 

[Purdey]

12 minutes ago, ericbj said:

Clearly there are irreconcilable differences of opinion concerning Dr Fauci.

 

However there are TWO aspects to his potential culpability.

 

This article touches upon one of them, not much considered as yet on this forum:

https://www.foxnews.com/media/rand-paul-says-fauci-caught-lies-congress-coronavirus-research-dead-rights

You are quoting an entertainment channel that lost a lot of money when it was proven in court that they lie?

P.S. Rand Paul is an eye doctor. He specializes in cataract and glaucoma surgeries, LASIK procedures, and corneal transplants, not vaccines.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

23 minutes ago, ericbj said:

Clearly there are irreconcilable differences of opinion concerning Dr Fauci.

 

However there are TWO aspects to his potential culpability.

 

This article touches upon one of them, not much considered as yet on this forum:

https://www.foxnews.com/media/rand-paul-says-fauci-caught-lies-congress-coronavirus-research-dead-rights

 

Rand Paul has his dubious opinion, and that's all it is... His call for a criminal prosecution of Fauci in the cited Fox report went nowhere, because there was no credible criminal case to be made.

 

Per the Associated Press:

 

"A GOP-led subcommittee has spent over a year probing the nation’s response to the pandemic and whether U.S.-funded research in China may have played any role in how it started — yet found no evidence linking Fauci to wrongdoing."

...

Republicans repeated unproven accusations against the longtime National Institutes of Health scientist..."

 

https://apnews.com/article/fauci-covid-pandemic-origin-congress-a66625482f25824476ee315484790230

 

Per the New York Times:

 

"And for all the hundreds of thousands of pages of documents and more than 100 hours of closed-door testimony that the panel reviewed, lawmakers produced nothing on Monday linking Dr. Fauci to the beginnings of the Covid outbreak in China...."

 

New York Times

https://archive.ph/Q2NKi

 

Per subcommittee ranking member Raul Ruiz:

 

Ruiz added that the evidence found that "Dr. Fauci did not fund research through the EcoHealth Alliance Grant that caused the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Fauci did not lie about gain of function research in Wuhan China, Dr. Fauci did not orchestrate a campaign to suppress the lab-leak theory."

 

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/anthony-fauci-covid-origins-hearing-06-03-24/index.html

 

 

[roquefort]

17 minutes ago, Purdey said:

You are quoting an entertainment channel that lost a lot of money when it was proven in court that they lie?

P.S. Rand Paul is an eye doctor.

Rand Paul is an eye doctor so his opinion on whether Fauci lied to congress doesn't count? That's a strange kind of logic. What about other congressmen who aren't doctors at all?

[roquefort]

14 minutes ago, Purdey said:

I have looked at professional analyses of scientific data that would count as fake but the amount is not 50% -

Martinson et al. (2005), which is one of the largest and most frequently cited surveys on misconduct published to date. This study appears to be rather conservative, because without it the pooled average frequency with which scientists admit they have committed misconduct would jump to nearly 3%. 

 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2685008/

 

Moreover, no one appears to agree with you about Covid vaccine being the problem created using fake information. Scientific research shows it is misinformation on Facebook and Twitter that causes people to believe "they are out to get us." It is just not proven by the scientific community.

 

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk3451  (2024)

 

Perhaps you should provide a link to the research proving the vaccine data was faked (NOT Facebook) so I and others can see for ourselves.

 

If you read my post I said up to 50% was fake or non-replicable. I didn't mention the vaccine data, I was referring to scientific research generally.

 

Here's the link.

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/02/22/there-is-a-worrying-amount-of-fraud-in-medical-research?etear=nl_weekly_6

[Purdey]

3 minutes ago, roquefort said:

Rand Paul is an eye doctor so his opinion on whether Fauci lied to congress doesn't count? That's a strange kind of logic. What about other congressmen who aren't doctors?

He is not an expert on vaccines, which is why he wouldn't know a lie if it fell on him.

I notice you still don't have any scientific evidence, just a proven liar entertainment channel and a fake doctor.

"In the spring of 2010 stories first swirled around Sen. Rand Paul’s certification as an ophthalmologist by an outfit called the “National Ophthalmology Board,” an entity he founded." This board "has been out of business since 2011, and in any event, does not under Kentucky law permit him to advertise as “board certified.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2013/11/08/rand-paul-has-another-problem/

[Purdey]

8 minutes ago, roquefort said:

If you read my post I said up to 50% was fake or non-replicable. I didn't mention the vaccine data, I was referring to scientific research generally.

 

Here's the link.

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/02/22/there-is-a-worrying-amount-of-fraud-in-medical-research?etear=nl_weekly_6

Cool - refer to a gated website so everyone is locked out except you. I was hoping to read a real scientific research paper but never mind... Fraud or faked results are common but the difference is that if said research cannot be replicated, it is ignored. You should not think scientists accept it without replication.

[ericbj]

34 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Rand Paul has his dubious opinion, and that's all it is... His call for a criminal prosecution of Fauci in the cited Fox report went nowhere, because there was no credible criminal case to be made.

 

Per the Associated Press:

 

"A GOP-led subcommittee has spent over a year probing the nation’s response to the pandemic and whether U.S.-funded research in China may have played any role in how it started — yet found no evidence linking Fauci to wrongdoing."

...

Republicans repeated unproven accusations against the longtime National Institutes of Health scientist..."

 

https://apnews.com/article/fauci-covid-pandemic-origin-congress-a66625482f25824476ee315484790230

 

Per the New York Times:

 

"And for all the hundreds of thousands of pages of documents and more than 100 hours of closed-door testimony that the panel reviewed, lawmakers produced nothing on Monday linking Dr. Fauci to the beginnings of the Covid outbreak in China...."

 

New York Times

https://archive.ph/Q2NKi

 

Per subcommittee ranking member Raul Ruiz:

 

Ruiz added that the evidence found that "Dr. Fauci did not fund research through the EcoHealth Alliance Grant that caused the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Fauci did not lie about gain of function research in Wuhan China, Dr. Fauci did not orchestrate a campaign to suppress the lab-leak theory."

 

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/anthony-fauci-covid-origins-hearing-06-03-24/index.html

 

 

https://nypost.com/2024/05/16/us-news/nih-director-admits-taxpayers-funded-gain-of-function-research-in-wuhan-four-years-after-covid-pandemic-began/

[roquefort]

5 minutes ago, Purdey said:

Cool - refer to a gated website so everyone is locked out except you. I was hoping to read a real scientific research paper but never mind... Fraud or faked results are common but the difference is that if said research cannot be replicated, it is ignored. You should not think scientists accept it without replication.

For some mysterious reason it won't allow me to upload the pdf. PM me if you're interested.

[roquefort]

Now it works.

There is a worrying amount of fraud in medical research _ The Economist.pdf