You come from a place where one of the biggest liars in history was named Truth.  Fauci was playing games from the get go. Bad faith. Anyone who's reviewed scientific papers should be able to tell the difference.  Fauci was in damage control, he was manipulating the public,  and his lack of humility, no his arrogance, was appalling. He was representing certainty when nothing was certain.  And people who knew nothing about science were taking Fauci's side because he wasn't Trump. Rand Paul was irrelevant.,(reply>), @Dave Me Lex is fantastic and he's fighting the good fight. He really tries to get it right. But his story about Joe Rogan is important. Lex is at heart an engineer. I used to share his youthful optimism, when I was doing early autonomous vehicle research in the same department where he was educated at roughly the same age. Fortunately, I came from the humanities and got exposed to multiple influences, including being caught between many competing paradigms. Because I wasn't a joiner and because I couldn't decide between the various truths, I made my own way. But being an outsider, and gaining experience, allows you to see a lot of "scientific" nonsense. You need both skeptics and true believers. But only a true believer would have started out where Fauci did. The pandemic,  as the WHO knew well before it started, was a people problem inevitably immersed in politics.  It wasn't an "I'm smarter than you" and I've got the hammer and you're the nail problem. Rand Paul was a imperfect vehicle,  because no one else was pointing out that the Emperor had no clothes. Yet plenty of know-nothings, including those with advanced degrees, defended him like Monty Python's Dead Parrot.  I still think a pop science book written ten years from now will contain more truth than what passes for wisdom today. Einstein and Bohr couldn't agree, so I'm not naive. But Covid, and all biology for that matter, is far from physics. We need more humility.,(reply>), Couldnt agree more. It was uncomfortable to hear both not address this better.