What Anthony Fauci's Defenders (and Critics) Get Wrong - Reason Magazine
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Fauci's pandemic record is still contested — gain-of-function funding, lab leak origins, and policy calls all pull defenders and critics toward opposite certainties.
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Theory Briefing
- Gain-of-function research funding remains a live dispute — critics say Fauci's NIAID backed risky experiments, defenders contest the definition itself.
- The lab leak theory sits at the center of the debate, with neither side able to claim a settled verdict on COVID-19's origins.
- Fauci's pandemic-era policy decisions are judged differently depending on which evidence his defenders and critics choose to emphasize.
- Reason's framing suggests both camps oversimplify — each side selectively ignoring inconvenient facts about his record.