The Galileo Case Revisited
“So, it’s easy to criticize, but they’re really criticizing science because I represent science,” responded Dr. Anthony Fauci — director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984 and the chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden — to criticisms of his handling of the Covid pandemic.
Fauci added that this is “dangerous,” because “I’m not going to be around here forever, but science is going to be here forever. And if you damage science, you are doing something very detrimental to society long after I leave.”
This led many to compare Fauci’s remarks to the alleged statement of the absolutist king of France, Louis XIV — “L’Etat, c’est moi” (“I am the state”) — implying that Fauci essentially said, “I am science.”
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