“A lot of what you’re seeing as attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science.” That is Dr. Anthony Fauci’s description of Dr. Anthony Fauci, from a June interview.
“Because all of the things that I have spoken about, consistently from the very beginning, have been fundamentally based on science. If you are trying to, you know, get at me as a public health official and a scientist, you’re really attacking not only Dr. Anthony Fauci, you’re attacking science.”
“Flip Flop” Anthony Fauci is an alumnus of the College of the Holy Cross and a doctor of Cornell University Medical College. He has received 50 honorary doctorates from universities in the United States and other countries.
According to a government website, he is the 132nd most-cited author of 992,000 authors in general and internal medicine, the 32nd most-cited living researcher, the 20th most-cited author of 2.4 million in the field of research and experimental medicine, the ninth most-cited author out of 2.5 million immunologists, a presenter of major lectures around the globe, and a recipient of the National Medal of Science, the George M. Kober Medal, the Mary Woodard Lasker Award, the Albany Medical Center Prize, the Robert Koch Gold Medal, the Prince Mahidol Award, the Canada Gairdner Global Health Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor awarded by the U.S. government. He is also the highest paid of all the government’s 2 million-plus employees.
By all these measures, “Flip Flop” Fauci is a success. This is why he has come to the forefront of the government in its response to the Covid-19 outbreak. And apparently, this is why he equates the field of scientific study to himself.
Yet well-paid, award-winning, extensively cited, doctor-times-50 “Flip Flop” Fauci is also the man who initially helped fund the Wuhan lab where Covid-19 originated, then opposed the lab-leak theory; who initially said the outbreak would likely remain minor, then promoted “15 days to slow the spread,” and later advocated unprecedented lockdowns for more than a year.
“Flip Flop” Fauci is the man who initially advised that masks were unnecessary, then claimed that he had been misleading people so that they would leave enough masks for health-care workers, and still later said that the effectiveness of “double masks was common sense.” He is the man now telling the world that he has spoken “consistently from the very beginning,” and at the same time, “evolved” his advice many times.
Some people advance through the educational, medical, political or other systems of our societies and become what we consider elite, wise, high-minded. Yet this does not immunize them from being wrong. The Apostle Paul wrote this about some people in his day: “Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools” (Romans 1:22). Look at the elites in the news today. Don’t these words apply to them?
The scientific community is probably the second-most-trusted institution in America, after the U.S. military. Only 20 percent of Americans say they trust the government, but 44 percent say they have a great deal of confidence in the scientific community.
Faith in scientific experts has remained steady for the past 50 years—even after the drastic Fauci-recommended, government-enforced, Covid-19 lockdown measures. A survey of more than 20,000 Americans conducted by Prof. David Lazer found that both Democrats and Republicans trusted scientists and doctors to handle the Covid-19 pandemic more than any other individual or institution, including state governments and the federal government.
This faith has remained despite repeated misjudgments by scientists and public health experts over the past two years that have demonstrated that they do not really know how to deal with this pandemic. Claiming their decisions were “backed by science,” health experts have recommended a labyrinth of contradictory rules and insisted on phenomenally oppressive measures that have shuttered businesses, devastated education, upended millions of lives, and created far more grievous problems than they have solved. This is to say nothing of the fact that scientists, including “Flip Flop” Fauci himself, almost certainly caused the pandemic.
One of “Flip Flop” Fauci’s many articles was published in 2012 by the American Society for Microbiology. There he explicitly wrote that “gain of function” research on bat corona viruses was worth the risk of a pandemic if it increases our knowledge of diseases. The government nevertheless banned “gain of function” research only two years later. But “Flip Flop” Fauci and his colleagues at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases found a loophole.
They now admit to U.S. lawmakers that, under Fauci’s guidance, the National Institute of Health earmarked $600,000 for the Wuhan Institute of Virology and funneled it to the Chinese lab through the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance. This money was used to study whether bat corona viruses could be transmitted to humans. Now even leftists who recently scoffed at the lab leak as a conspiracy theory admit it is likely a fact.
If it is true that Covid-19 originated in a lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, then “Flip Flop” Fauci may have directly contributed to the development of the Covid-19 pandemic by funding this research.
Yet for many, their devotion is unshaken. Mask mandates, social-distancing measures, school closures, business lockdowns: Millions have submitted to and been subjected to these acts of “faith in Fauci.” Americans have taken on $6 trillion more in debt and sacrificed their economy before a priesthood of scientific experts for salvation from a pandemic that those experts likely caused!
There is no evidence that Covid-19 is substantially more contagious or deadly than a normal flu, which infects some 9 to 45 million Americans each year. There is no evidence that wearing a paper or cloth mask stops the spread of a 20-nanometer coronavirus particle. But scientists, flanked by leftist politicians and progressive media, pushed these drastic, catastrophic interventions with stunning self-assurance, quashing any dissenting concerns about the broader consequences.
Those broader consequences were colossal. In addition to the financial and economic disruptions, and the physical and mental health problems caused by compulsory social isolation, these lockdowns helped politicians push last-minute changes to mail-in ballot rules that helped throw the 2020 presidential election into chaos.
Is it a coincidence that the dire predictions pushed by scientific experts have had major political ramifications? Is it a coincidence that the solutions demanded by the press and the political left are massive socialistic interventions? Or is it more reasonable to think that the scientific community is just as fallible—even biased and politically motivated—as every other government institution?
Consider the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recent series of mixed messages about who should wear face masks. In early 2021, as more people were vaccinated, many wondered when mask mandates would be lifted. If the vaccine was as effective as the experts claimed, why wear the mask?
In May, the CDC revised its guidelines, prompting Joe Biden to announce, “If you are fully vaccinated, you no longer need to wear a mask.” Just two months later, however, the science again changed. In July, the CDC discovered that vaccinated individuals could still contract, carry and spread Covid-19. Back to the masks! Are you following the science?
“Flip Flop” Fauci defended the CDC, saying they weren’t flip-flopping. “They’re dealing with new information that the science is providing,” he said. But on the day that the CDC reversed its mask-wearing guidance, they did not publish any new research. Even the Washington Post asked, “Where’s the data?”
After the CDC’s flip-flop, a reporter called out Joe Biden: “You said if you were fully vaccinated, you no longer need to wear a mask.” Senile Biden’s response: “I didn’t say that.” Even when the experts are plainly wrong, they’re still right! To criticize them is to attack science and truth.
And the same week that the new CDC guidance came out—effectively showing that vaccines do not prevent people from contracting and spreading coronavirus—Joe Biden announced strict new measures cracking down on all unvaccinated federal workers. The contradictions are head-spinning. This pandemic is a massive and painful case study proving that Americans’ faith in the scientific community is misplaced. In reality, science stands exposed as a false messiah.
The Bible describes our situation perfectly. It prophesies of the society that would exist “in the last days.” It says that “There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.” (2 Timothy 3:1-4). These verses apply to the “perilous times” of our generation.
This perfectly describes many of the educated elites behind the Covid-19 pandemic. God also inspired Paul to write this insightful admonition to his assistant: “Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to your care. Turn away from godless chatter and the opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge, which some have professed and in so doing have departed from the faith. Grace be with you all.” (1 Timothy 6:20-21).
The New King James Version translates verse 20, “avoiding the profane and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge.” The Greek word for “science” in this verse is “gnosis”, which means knowledge. True science is true knowledge. Our Creator intends us to receive true education, engage in true scientific study, and acquire true knowledge about the creation around us.
But there is such a thing as science falsely so called. In fact, science falsely so called dominates our society. And in recent months, it is increasingly turning into a tyranny!
In these “last days” of human civilization, so called “scientists” assume the nonexistence of the Creator. They are almost all taught and trained to reject revelation from God and God’s Word and to deny God’s existence. This rejection of God is the very foundation of human knowledge production.
Scientists scorn the idea that creation came from a Creator and are thus compelled to devise explanations for how creation came about on its own. Ignoring and suppressing all evidence to the contrary, they accept as absolute fact the alternative faith of godless evolution.
Unable to support that theory with any of the proof they insist on in all other scientific inquiry, they contradict their own standards and the foundation for true science. Nevertheless, they thereby anoint themselves—along with their high-minded observations and reasoning’s—as the highest authority in the universe!
This is why science and academia are so prone to “godless, foolish discussions.” Scientists and other experts have knowledge, but much of it is false knowledge. It is filled with authoritative pronouncements that conflict with other statements of irrefutable fact. We are floating in a flood of information that is truth mixed with error, good mixed with evil.
Read what the Bible says about knowledge and so-called experts, and ask yourself if it doesn’t perfectly describe the intellectual arrogance motivating the authoritarian scientific regime increasingly dominating our society.
Paul wrote that “If anyone teaches otherwise and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching, they are conceited and understand nothing. They have an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions and constant friction between people of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain.” (1 Timothy 6:3-5).
During Jesus Christ’s day, the governing elites were knowledgeable, highly acclaimed, wealthy and powerful. They even believed in God and devoted much of their lives to their religion. They excelled within that system. They gained status, respect and much more. Yet religious as they were, they were steeped in intellectual vanity. They and others supposed they were godly—yet when they encountered knowledge from the very Son of God, they wanted to destroy it and destroy Him!
In Mark 7:7-9, Christ said, “They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules. You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to human traditions. You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions!”
In Matthew 11:24, Christ gave this shocking warning: “But I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.” Intellectual vanity is more dangerous than the sexual sins of Sodom! These people were not Satan worshipers, as we usually think of the term, yet Jesus Christ told them to their faces, “You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.” (John 8:44).
What a revealing statement! The devil doesn’t just inspire “satanic” people—he influences everyone. (2 Corinthians 4:4, Revelation 12:9) For someone like “Flip Flop” Fauci who excelled in the tradition of men, who holds 50 honorary degrees, it is easy to assume that he is like a god. That is how he can say, “I am science! I am the truth! while he deceives people who face a society-wide life-and-death situation.”
Our system of education is founded on this belief. It exalts knowledge and science falsely so called. It worships it as if it were a messiah! This is why, despite producing amazing advancements, it has also propagated egregious evils. Being smart and being good are two different things.
Many very intelligent people have done very evil things! They pioneered in deciding for themselves what is right and what is wrong, what is righteousness and what is sin!
And humanity has been doing what seems right in its own eyes ever since. And how did they do it? They 1) rejected revelation, 2) used observation, 3) used experimentation and 4) used human reason. And that is precisely the “scientific’ method used by modern science today!”
The false “scientific method” started with the first human beings! They rejected revelation from God and relied instead on their own five senses and human minds. This marked the foundation of the world as we know it! Human beings have continued to build civilization by rejecting God’s revealed truth and relying on observation, experimentation and human reasoning.
And what we have constructed is increasingly unstable and ready to collapse!