It seems to have been a superficial wound to the ear, and that’s all. . . I don’t think there is much more to it I mean, from what we’ve seen and what we’ve heard, it was a bullet shot that grazed his ear and injured his ear, according to the physicians who examined him. There was no other further damage.
That was Dr. Anthony Fauci last week on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. Dr. Fauci changed his diagnosis from Trump’s “wound” to “injured,” as though Trump had been involved in an accident. In reality, Dr. Fauci never wanted to treat gunshot wounds, and that’s why he became a government bureaucrat.
Fauci earned a medical degree at Cornell in 1966 but if he ever practiced medicine it was only for a short time. As Raymond S. Greenberg explains, the mid-1960s were the days of “a compulsory draft of American physicians,” to serve in military hospitals in Vietnam. One of the few alternatives to that service was a position in the Public Health Service. Newly minted physicians could join the clinical associate program at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, which Fauci joined in 1968.
These doctors were dubbed “Yellow Berets,” the opposite numbers of the special forces Green Beret troops in Vietnam. The Omens, a Detroit group, even wrote a song about it, “The Ballad of the Yellow Beret,” a parody of “Ballad of the Green Berets” by Sgt. Barry Saddler, a Special Forces medic who also treated the Montagnards and other civilians. Fauci’s bio showed no advanced degrees in biochemistry or molecular biology but by 1984 the Yellow Beret was heading the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID).
“Over the decades, Fauci came to see himself as infallible,” notes James Meigs in the July 16 City Journal. Meigs is right that Fauci claimed to represent “science,” but wrong that he welcomed contrary views during the AIDS years. As during Covid, Fauci silenced dissent and shut down debate with medical scientists much more qualified than himself. This is what happens when medical doctors become government bureaucrats, and it all could have been halted in 1984.
Dr. Fauci “doesn’t understand electron microscopy and he doesn’t understand medicine,” contended Nobel laureate Kary Mullis, inventor of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test. “He should not be in a position like he’s in.”
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