He was being a good scientist. He basically said it is anecdotal until good controlled clinical studies were done. Which is absolutely true. Which does not mean that it doesn't work, and he wasn't saying it didn't. Just that we can't know for sure yet.
“he wasn’t saying it didn’t. “
He didn’t say those words, but he implied it didn’t work — the tone. Seemed to me like he didn’t want to be one-upped by someone else. Dontcha know he’s planning to come in and save the day?
he did it to put down the ELECTED PRESIDENT.
who should fire the little Fauci
As a scientist it makes me want to pick up a heavy object and cosh the AH every time I hear this phrase.
It's a meaningless put-down. When you need a new solution to a problem hypothesis are formed surround it that fall into a number of categories: 1. Wild-eyed unfounded speculation that merits no further consideration. 2. Reasonable hypotheses that have nevertheless been soundly disproven by incontestable evidence; 3. Hypotheses for which there is some evidence, though it is not firmly established and more evidence is needed. 4. Hypotheses that are soundly supported by overwhelming incontestable data.
Grad grinds - the guys who never had an original idea in their lives - dismiss category 3 as "anecdotal" every single blessed time. It's what they do. Sure it might not work, but of all the ideas that do work, this is where almost all of them come from.
Fauci might be a careful bureaucrat, but he is never going to figure out how to solve a new problem.
> He was being a good scientist
A really good scientist can see the forest and the trees both.
He disparaged very specific claims made by other doctors without giving any evidence at all that their claims were false.
Let people try it.