Скандальный скандал вокруг Фуччи: как разоблачение врача подорвало доверие к науке и СМИ

Looking back at 5786, the outgoing year seems like a master class in the true nature of strength, power, and security If you were woken this year by air-raid sirens, if you shielded your ears this year while enormous missiles were detonated in the atmosphere above your head, if you felt the walls around you actually quaking, then you might agree that this was a year of shifts in our perception of power and stability. But even if you weren’t targeted by ballistic missiles, there’s a good chance you felt a sense of shakiness in the world around you. So much is shifting and changing; so many assumptions no longer carry the same weight. Looking back at 5786, the outgoing year seems like a master class in the true nature of strength, power, and security. History is filled with falls from power and favor. This year boasted a full retinue. The fall of Dr. Fauci may have been the neatest one: In an almost perfect plot, the doctor vaunted as the face of science was exposed — through his own journal — as an attention-seeker who valued his own celebrity far beyond the lives entrusted to his hands. As a pandemic rampaged through the country, he’d exulted, “I am the most famous and talked about person in the country and one of the most recognizable person in the world.” The revelation of Fauci’s bald self-centeredness didn’t only shatter his personal standing; it fed America’s growing distrust of both conventional medical authority and the mainstream media. Create a free account to keep reading.