Rand Paul’s claim that Fauci helped fund gain-of-function research is based on the two men using different definitions of gain of function research. While Paul’s definition makes more sense based on a casual hearing of the phrase “gain-of-function”, other epidemiologists agree with Fauci’s definition, which is based on how it was defined by the Department of Health and Human Services it. The HHS definition required a policy to enhance potentially pandemic pathogens, while experiments Fauci was involved in were on viruses that had not been shown to have this potential due to not being shown to infect humans. Both the NIH and independent screeners agreed it was not gain-of-function based on the HHS guidelines.
Despite some back and forth early on, the evidence now best points toward natural origins for Covid-19, not a lab leak.
There’s no evidence that the virus’s Fauci was involved in evolved into Covid-19.
Paul claims Fauci is a liar, rather than recognizing the regulatory definition that the employee of the government was using. Fauci was using the definition of his employer, which was determined by a formal three-year deliberative process.
This definition was put into effect during the first Trump administration.
Tulsi Gabbard released a lot of files and said they held damning evidence about Fauci. But this wasn’t true. Many people just took her word for it rather than seriously going through the files.
The six-feet guidelines were based on studies on how aerosol viruses spread. The claim they had no basis in science is false.
Fauci stated masks are for healthcare workers but not needed by everyday people before Covid became a global pandemic. As the virus spread, there was more people-to-people transmission, and masks became more available…he advised people to wear masks.
People cherry pick mask studies. The most comprehensive narrative review and meta-analysis of the studies found that masks work.
Rand Paul made false claims about Covid during the pandemic, Fauci pointed out why he was wrong, making anyone in the know see that Rand looked like an idiot. Rand then went on a warpath and is still trying to destroy Fauci.
Comparing Sweden to other Scandinavian countries, which are more similar to Sweden in many ways relative to the United States, Sweden had the highest Covid death rate, and Sweden itself has concluded that its strategy was bad. In Sweden’s second Covid wave, they implemented stricter policies! They corrected course, yet people still claim Sweden’s first wave policies were a success and something to be emulated.
The evidence also supports lockdowns preventing Covid-19 deaths.
Rand Paul is obsessed with prosecuting Fauci, and then Paul and his fellow Republican senators wonder why he pleaded the fifth when they dragged him before them after he no longer worked for the government. While working for the government, Fauci has directly answered many many many questions before Congress.
When companies got rid of an old CEO and for the first time got a new one that had an MBA, wages fell. It looks like the ideology of the CEO matters. If the CEO believes in standard business school teachings that suggest businesses should lower wages if they can, then they do it, and people get paid less.
Human-caused climate change has been studied for many decades, and the common sense alternative explanations have already been studied and don’t explain the warming.
“Meat is indeed packed with protein, but it comes with some well-established health drawbacks.
“Saturated fat we’ve known about for decades,” said Dr. Sarah C. Hull, a cardiologist at Yale Medicine. It’s common in red meat and contributes to increasing LDL cholesterol levels, hardening the blood vessels and, in turn, raising the risk of heart attack or stroke.
Moreover, “all mammalian meat tends to be very inflammatory,” said Hull, who studies the diet-related risks of heart disease and cancer. “More recently we’ve come to understand that the many pro-inflammatory compounds found in red meat” can have other downsides, she said, including “deleterious interactions with the gut microbiome.” Studies have also linked the risks of certain cancers and Type 2 diabetes to heme iron, a form of the mineral that’s found only in animal tissue and is more easily absorbed than the iron in plants.”
“Seed oils have become a major target of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement, whose figurehead is Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “Seed oils are one of the driving causes of the obesity epidemic,” according to Kennedy, who has accused fast-food restaurants that use seed oils of poisoning Americans.
But among nutrition experts, opinions about seed oils and health are much more mixed, with plenty suggesting they’re fine in moderation, are better than alternatives, or are unwisely treated as a unit despite the fact that different seed oils have different properties and effects on health.
There’s also mixed evidence on the effects of common food dyes and additives)”