Former Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard and former Texas Rep. Ron Paul tore into White House medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci and elites who allegedly “believe they are God.”
During an appearance on “The Tulsi Gabbard Show” Tuesday, Paul criticized Fauci’s previous declaration that he represents science during a November interview, stating that his rhetoric is about him striving to gain power and control. He argued that science is supposed to be debated and raise more questions, rather than having one individual claim authority on issues surrounding medical policies.
“When he says ‘I am science,’ he is the least amount of science,” Paul said. “That’s how they turn things around as if somebody was reading 1984 or something. Language means nothing … In medical school, debates were really important, I loved the debates. The professors debated, the students debated … if there’s no debate in science as settled it, it gets pretty boring. But science doesn’t settle it. If you think science has settled it, you don’t know what you’re talking about because science has produced many more questions.”
Gabbard warned that Fauci and other elitists are using their powers to determine objective truth and morals against the people’s will.
“When you peel back the layers on that like you said, what we’re seeing are these people who essentially believe that they are God,” Gabbard said. “That they are in control, that they get to determine what is right and wrong, what is truth or what is not true, and really how dangerous that is, when we look at our Constitution and our Bill of Rights and that recognition of those inalienable rights bestowed upon us by our Creator, they are designating themselves as that authority, that higher power, and that the rest of us are their subjects. That’s really how dangerous this mindset is that they have.”
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Gabbard said those in power have denied science and objective truth, particularly by disputing that there are biological differences between men and women. She did not shy away from pointing out that this denial has directly impacted policymaking and people’s lives, namely women’s sports. (RELATED: ‘Essentially Erase Women’: Tulsi Gabbard Slams Biden Admin’s Overhaul Of Key Civil Rights Law)
“This is again by their rejection of the fact that there is objective truth and them placing themselves in that position of essentially being God, and how offensive and how dangerous that mindset is and that spiritual rot, where that’s coming from,” she continued.
Paul argued that these new scientific claims and alleged denial of biology have become confusing. He then pointed to a legal standard that a pregnant woman and her unborn child are considered two people in a liability case.
Fauci has come under fire for some of his disputed claims about gain-of-function research and the COVID-19 vaccine. In May 2021, he said that vaccinated individuals have a strong unlikelihood for spreading the virus, though Biden and others who are triple and quadruple vaccinated have been infected.
Paul’s son, Rand, has repeatedly sparred with Fauci previously denying that the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) funded gain-of-function research prior to the COVID-19 pandemic after reports found that the nonprofit group EcoHealth Alliance, funded by the NIAID, created a lab-generated chimeric coronavirus between 2018 and 2019.