Fauci goes full pseudoscience for mother earth
Dr Anthony Fauci in new paper: “Living in greater harmony with nature will require changes in human behavior as well as other radical changes that may take decades to achieve: rebuilding the infrastructures of human existence…”
Former NYT reporter Alex Berenson responds:
“But, see, if #COVID-19 turns out to be a testing-driven lil-bit-worse-than-a-bad-flu year, what then? Maybe we WON’T need to redesign all of human existence because some 79-year-old bureaucrat wants us to?”
“Why does Dr. Anthony Fauci, a division-level bureaucrat whose day job includes the word ‘allergy,’ think his brief now includes redesigning all of human society? And how monstrous must his ego have become for him to be willing to say so publicly?” Berenson asked.
See: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1301933226072698880.html
Former New York Times Reporter Alex Berenson comments:
1/ Hoo boy. Dr. Anthony Fauci has some advice for us.
#Sars-Cov-2 is just the beginning. We’re in a “pandemic era” now, friends.
What’s the solution?
“Living in greater harmony with nature.”
Ooh. I like harmony. I like nature. Tell me more, doc!
3/ “In a human-dominated world, in which our human activities represent aggressive, damaging, and unbalanced interactions with nature, we will increasingly provoke new disease emergence.”
Huh. Sounds like human domination is the real problem here?
4/ “COVID-19… should force us to begin to think in earnest and collectively about living in more thoughtful and creative harmony with nature.”
Fortunately, Dr. Anthony Fauci can lead the way.
I believe this is known as mission creep. There are other words for it too.
5/ But, see, if #COVID-19 turns out to be a testing-driven lil-bit-worse-than-a-bad-flu year, what then? Maybe we WON’T need to redesign all of human existence because some 79-year-old bureaucrat wants us to?
Just spitballing here.
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https://jordanschachtel.substack.com/p/fauci-goes-full-pseudoscience-covid
By Jordan Schachtel
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the 36 year head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), appears to have embraced something resembling an enviro de-growth movement, arguing in a new “scientific” paper that we need to go back to living in “creative harmony with nature” in order to avoid future health issues such as pandemics, which have existed since the beginning of the human species.
The bizarre screed, published in Cell Press, reveals one of the nation’s longest tenured bureaucrats as someone who is both deeply ideological in his worldview and seemingly completely untethered to reality.
The paper, co authored with Fauci’s NIAID colleague, Dr. David Morens, argues that we need to implement extremely necessary but vague policy measures that are “necessary in controlling future devastating disease emergencies.”
Notably, it does not identify particular policy solutions, but offers hazy sentiments on the supposed damage that human beings are doing. It does, however, include scary graphics such as the one below that offers more insight into the NIAID bureaucrats’ worldview.
For months now, Fauci has claimed, without evidence, that non pharmaceutical interventions, such as wearing masks and locking down society, is the key to defeating the COVID-19 pandemic.
Yet there is still not a single study or data point that proves a single non pharmaceutical interventions has been successful worldwide in stopping the virus. Still, Fauci insists that human behavior is what will make or break the pandemic. Now, this latest paper, presumably written while he was recovering from vocal cord surgery (and taking a short break from his daily routine of endless media appearances), takes readers even further down a path of complete speculation and pseudoscience.
This Fauci article should have you worried. Very worried: “Living in greater harmony with nature will require changes in human behavior as well as other radical changes that may take decades to achieve: rebuilding the infrastructures of human existence…” cell.com/action/showPdf…
“SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) is a deadly addition to the long list of microbial threats to the human species. It forces us to adapt, react, and reconsider the nature of our relationship to the natural world,” the paper states. “As human societies grow in size and complexity, we create an endless variety of opportunities for genetically unstable infectious agents to emerge into the unfilled ecologic niches we continue to create. There is nothing new about this situation, except that we now live in a human-dominated world in which our increasingly extreme alterations of the environment induce increasingly extreme backlashes from nature.”
Fauci and his coauthor appear to be taking the position that human dominance over nature is a bad thing, one that is sure to result in future catastrophes. That could be true when it comes to subjects such as advanced military weaponry (high powered nuclear bombs), but the paper completely ignores the fact that human innovation has allowed for our lifespans to double since the mid 19th century. Additionally, it’s not as if deadly pandemics are only a recent issue. The Black Death, which took an estimated 75-200 million lives, occurred 400 years before the Industrial Revolution, and none of the pandemics of the 21st century have had a significant negative impact on global health. COVID-19, which has had the most sophisticated tracking program in pandemic history, has still registered fewer than 1 million reported deaths worldwide. Human innovation has allowed for a more sanitary lifestyle, and this has undoubtedly reduced the impact that pandemics and climate events may have had on our lives. Fauci’s seeming embrace of the degrowth movement makes no sense, from a human health perspective. Rolling back human progress and becoming “one with nature” would make humans *more* susceptible to pandemics, not less.
The paper ends by warning of “a deadly barrage of coming coronavirus and other emergences.”
“The COVID-19 pandemic is yet another reminder, added to the rapidly growing archive of historical reminders, that in a human-dominated world, in which our human activities represent aggressive, damaging, and unbalanced interactions with nature, we will increasingly provoke new disease emergences,” it adds. “We remain at risk for the foreseeable future. COVID-19 is among the most vivid wake-up calls in over a century. It should force us to begin to think in earnest and collectively about living in more thoughtful and creative harmony with nature, even as we plan for nature’s inevitable, and always unexpected, surprises.”
So there you have it, Fauci and crew seem to believe that we are living in a permanent pandemic era, which is the fault of human progress, and one that requires immense, but untold, regressive action to combat. Simply put, they are now blatantly attempting to leverage the pandemic to permanently change the way we live.
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Herb Rose
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Does this mean Fauci wants to abandon the un-natural vaccinations for which he holds patents and return to the natural way immunity is built?
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JaKo
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Hi Herb,
It does seems that way NOW! However, as he adheres to his guiding “principles” — we should expect several π course corrections… ;~)
JaKo
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Jerry Krause
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Hi PSI Readers,
No one can question that the book known as the Holy Bible is a historical narrative written long before there was this intellectual ‘thing’ we term SCIENCE. Of course there is debate whether this narrative a frictional narrative or whether it is an actual historical narrative inspired by the Creator God as is claimed in the first couple sentences of this book.
In the first page of my NIV Holy Bible (New International Version translation of the earliest copies of the Holy Bible written in earlier languages) I read: “Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in ou likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” (Genesis 1:26). Then in Genesis 1:28 I read: “God blessed them and said to them. “Be fruitful and increase in number, fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
Can there be any debate that man has done what the Creator God had created them to do? Can there be any debate that the remainder of the Holy Bible is a narrative about a ongoing conflict between ‘Good and Evil’?
As I read Fauli’s statement I must conclude that it is Evil because it clearly conflicts with the Creator God’’s instruction to man whom He created. For it can not be debated that man has done exactly for what he had been created and instructed to do.
Have a good day, Jerry
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Andy Rowlands
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Fauci is on the list of the most evil people of the 21st Century, along with Gates, Soros and a few others.
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Norman
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Andy Rowlands
So what acts have these people committed that makes you certain that they are on the list of “most evil people of the 21st Century”.
Not sure why anyone has objections to what Fauci is saying. Why wouldn’t the human race want to achieve some sort of balance with nature. As our population expands we may have to change our thoughts to better manage the resources we use and consume and try and be less destructive. Seems like someone is just trying to find an issue where there is none.
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Joel Walbert
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So he is saying to stop wearing masks as masks are not in harmony with nature? And the coming vaccine is not in harmony with nature. Our immune systems (for those of us who have functional ones) are however in harmony with nature.
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