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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Fauci Fibs

2020-12-25

[Post Millennial] Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted in an interview with The New York Times that he played around with the number of vaccinations required for herd immunity in order to subtly encourage Americans to get vaccinated.

He lied about the necessity of face masks, too. Originally he said they were not only unnecessary, but a bad idea. Later he reversed his position. And these deliberate lies are exactly the kind of thing that make skeptics skeptical about everything scientists claim.

"When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent. Then, when newer surveys said 60 percent or more would take it, I thought, ’I can nudge this up a bit,’ so I went to 80, 85."

Epidemiologists at the beginning of the pandemic had asserted that somewhere between 60 and 70 percent of Americans would need to receive the coronavirus vaccine in order for herd immunity to be established, figures which are still touted by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Dr. Fauci repeated such figures throughout the pandemic, but about a month ago he started to provide different, higher figures in interviews. In an interview given last month, Fauci suggested that up to 75 percent of Americans would need to be vaccinated in order to establish herd immunity. Just last week, Fauci said in an interview with CNBC that the rate of vaccination may need to be as high as 85 percent or greater.

Now Fauci is suggesting that up to 90 percent of the population requires vaccinations.
You just can't make this stuff up.

Posted by:Bobby

#5 A NeverTrumper I am generally fond of responded to this with, “But Trump lied more.” He was completely uninterested in the idea that we expect more from scientists than we do from politicians, doubly disappointing because he worked as a scientist before moving on to management.

Posted by: trailing wife 2020-12-25 10:00

#4 In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.

Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite.

Eisenhower's warning following the paragraph about the military industrial complex in his farewell address.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-12-25 09:46

#3 The dude's lower back must be shot from digging up and moving all those goalposts.

Posted by: Raj 2020-12-25 08:47

#2 And they wonder why we don't believe in Climate Change, 234 genders, etc...

Or why people are skeptical about the Vaccine - or how bad the Virus really is.

Posted by: CrazyFool 2020-12-25 02:14

#1 Ahhh, no wonder....

Posted by: Clem 2020-12-25 00:08

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