Dr. Fauci encouraged his own canonization and the disturbing inquisition against his blaphemous critics. In a June 9, 2021 je suis l’etat interview, he pronounced that Americans who questioned his statements were, per se, anti-science. “Attacks on me,” he explained, “quite frankly, are attacks on science.” The sentiment he expressed reminds us that blind faith in authority is a function of religion, not science. Science, like democracy, flourishes on skepticism toward official orthodoxies. Dr. Fauci’s schoolboy scorn for citation and his acknowledgement to the New York Times that he had twice lied to Americans to promote his agendas — on masks and herd immunity — raised the prospect that some of his other “scientific” assertions were, likewise, noble lies to a credulous public he believes is unworthy of self-determination.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The Real Anthony Fauci