From Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s 2021 book:
“The Real Anthony Fauci”
(Adapted from the “Introduction”, by Gary L. Clendenon, 2023)
Editor's Note: I, Gary L. Clendenon, purchased Robert F. Kennedy, Jr's book "The Real Anthony Fauci" last year. As I usually do with new books, I read the "Introduction". After that, because it was SO well written, I figured I basically knew all I needed to know and that I wanted to share this information with others, so I set out typing it out so that you, also, can know this much--without reading the whole book.
INTRODUCTION
“The first step is to give up the illusion that the primary purpose of modern medical research is to improve Americans’ health most effectively and efficiently. In our opinion, the primary purpose of commercially funded clinical research is to maximize financial return on investment, not health.”
- John Abramson, M.D., Harvard Medical School
I wrote this book to help Americans—and citizens across the globe—understand the historical underpinnings of the bewildering cataclysm that began in 2020. Liberal democracy effectively collapsed worldwide. The very governmental health regulators, social media eminences, and media companies that idealistic populations relied upon as champions of freedom, health, democracy, civil rights, and evidence-based public policy seemed to collectively pivot in a lockstep assault against free speech and personal freedoms.
Suddenly, those trusted institutions seemed to be acting in concert to generate fear, promote obedience, discourage critical thinking, and herd seven billion people to march to a single tune, culminating in mass public health experiments with a novel, shoddily tested and improperly licensed technology so risky that manufactures refused to produce it unless every government on Earth shielded them from liability.
Across Western nations, shell-shocked citizens experienced all the well-worn tactics of rising totalitarianism—mass propaganda and censorship, the orchestrated promotion of terror, the manipulation of science, the suppression of debate, the vilification of dissent, and use of force to prevent protest. Conscientious objectors who resisted these unwanted, experimental, zero-liability medical interventions faced orchestrated gaslighting, marginalization, and scapegoating.
American lives and livelihoods were shattered by a bewildering array of draconian diktats imposed without legislative approval or judicial review, risk assessment, or scientific citation. So-called Emergency Orders closed our businesses, schools and churches, made unprecedented intrusions into privacy, and disrupted our most treasured social and family relationships. Citizens the world over were ordered to stay in their homes.
Standing in the center of all the mayhem, with his confident hand on the helm, was one dominating figure. As the trusted public face of the United State government response to COVID, Dr. Anthony Fauci set this perilous course and sold the American public on a new destination for our democracy.
This book is the product of my own struggle to understand how the idealistic institutions our country built to safeguard both public health and democracy suddenly turned against our citizens and our values with such violence. I am a lifelong Democrat, whose family has had eighty years of deep engagement with America’s public health bureaucracy and long friendships with key federal regulators, including Anthony Fauci. Member of my family wrote many of the statutes under which these men govern, and defended that regulatory bulwark against ferocious attacks funded by industry. I built alliances with these individuals and their agencies during my years of environmental and public health advocacy. I watched them, often with admiration. But, I also watched how the industry, supposedly being regulated, used its indentured servants on Capitol Hill to systematically hollow out those agencies beginning in 1980, disabling their regulatory functions and transforming them, finally, into sock-puppets for the very industry Congress charged them with regulating.
My 40-year career as an environmental and public health advocate gave me a unique understanding of the corrupting mechanisms of “regulatory capture”, the process by which the regulator becomes beholden to the industry it’s meant to regulate. I spent four decades suing the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Among the hundreds of lawsuits I filed, perhaps a quarter were against regulatory officials making illegal concessions to Big Industries. I thought I knew everything about regulatory capture and that I had armored myself with an appropriate shield of cynicism.
But I was wrong about that. From the moment of my reluctant entrance into the vaccine debate in 2005, I was astonished to realize that the pervasive web of deep financial entanglements between Pharma and the government health agencies had put regulatory capture on steroids. The CDC, for example, owns 57 vaccine patents and spends $4.9 of its $12.0 billion-dollar annual budget (as of 2019) buying and distributing vaccines. NIH owns hundreds of vaccine patents and often profits from the sale of products it supposedly regulates. High level officials, including Dr. Fauci, receive yearly emoluments of up to $150,000 in royalty payments on products that they help develop and then usher through the approval process. The FDA receives 45 percent of its budget from the pharmaceutical industry, through what are euphemistically called “user fees.” When I learned that extraordinary fact, the disastrous health of the American people was no longer a mystery.
In this book, I track the rise of Anthony Fauci from his start as a young public health researcher and physician through his metamorphosis into the powerful technocrat who helped orchestrate and execute 2020’s historic coup d’etat against Western democracy. I explore the carefully planned militarization and monetization of medicine that has left American health ailing and its democracy shattered. I chronicle the troubling role of the dangerous concentrated mainstream media, Big Tech robber barons, the military and intelligence communities and their deep historical alliances with Big Pharma and public health agencies. The disturbing story that unfolds here has never been told, and many in power have worked hard to prevent the public from learning it. The main character is Dr. Anthony Fauci.
During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Fauci occupied center stage in a global drama unprecedented in human history. Other nations looked to Dr. Fauci, America’s most powerful and enduring public health bureaucrat, to competently direct US health policies, and rapidly develop countermeasures that would serve as state-of-the-art templates for the rest of the world.
Dr. Anthony Fauci spent half a century as America’s reigning health commissar, ever preparing for his final role as Commander of history’s biggest war against a global pandemic. After beginning work in 1968 at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), he served as that agency’s Director since 1984. [Reminds me of a book title that might apply to this history!] His $417,608 salary makes him the highest paid of all four million federal employees, including the President. His experiences surviving 50 years of a key federal bureaucracy, having advised six Presidents and their Administrations, seasoned him exquisitely for a crisis that would allow him to wield power enjoyed by few rulers and no doctor in history.
During the epidemic’s early months, Dr. Fauci’s calm, authoritative manner was Prozac for Americans besieged by two existential crises: the Trump Presidency, and COVID-19. Democrats and idealistic liberals around the globe took heart from Dr. Fauci’s serene, solid presence on the White House stage—initially cutting a heroic figure. Turning their backs to the foreboding horizon, trusting Americans manned the oars and blindly obeyed his commands—little realizing they were propelling our country toward the desolate destination where democracy goes to die.
Throughout the first year of the crisis, Dr. Fauci’s personal charisma and authoritative voice inspired confidence in his prescriptions and won him substantial affection. The New Yorker dubbed him “America’s Doctor”. Dr. Fauci encouraged his own canonization and the disturbing inquisition against his blasphemous critics. In a June 9, 2021 interview, he pronounced that Americans who questioned his statements were, per se, anti-science. “Attacks on me,” he explained, “quite frankly, are attacks on science.” The sentiment he expressed reminds us that blind faith in authority is a function of religion, not science. Science, like democracy, flourishes on skepticism toward official orthodoxies. Dr. Fauci’s schoolboy scorn for citation and his acknowledgment to the New York Times that he had twice lied to Americans to promote his agendas—on masks and herd immunity—raised the prospect that some of his other “scientific” assertions were, likewise, noble lies to a credulous public he believes is unworthy of self-determinism.
In August, 2021, Dr. Fauci’s acolyte—CNN’s television doctor, Peter Hotez—published an article in a scientific journal calling for legislation to “expand federal hate crime protections” to make criticism of Dr. Fauci a felony. In declaring that he had no conflicts, Dr. Hotez, who says that vaccine skeptics should be snuffed out, evidently forgot the millions of dollars in grants he has taken from Dr. Fauci’s NIAID since 1993, and more than $15 million from Dr. Fauci’s partner, Bill Gates. Dr. Fauci’s direct and indirect control—through NIH, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Welcome Trust of some 57 percent of global biomedical research funding—guarantees him this sort of homage from leading medical researchers, allows him to craft and perpetuate the reigning global medical narratives, and can fortify the canon that he, himself, is science incarnate.
High visibility henchmen, like Hotez—and Pharma’s financial control over the media through advertising dollars—have made Dr. Fauci’s pronouncements impervious to debate and endowed the NIAID Director with personal virtues and medical gravitas supported by neither science nor his public health record. By the latter metric, his 50-year regime has been calamitous for public health and for democracy. His administration of the COVID pandemic was, likewise, a disaster.
Tony Fauci dictated a series of policies that resulted in by far the most deaths, and one of the highest percentage COVID-19 body counts of any nation on the planet. Only relentless propaganda and wall-to-wall censorship could conceal his disastrous mismanagement during COVID-19’s first year. The US, with 4 percent of the world’s population, suffered 14.5 percent of total COVID deaths with a mortality rate of 2,107 per million compared to 139 per million in Japan.
After achieving these cataclysmically awful results, “Teflon Tony’s” media savvy and his skills for deft maneuvering beguiled incoming President Joe Biden into appointing him as the new administration’s COVID Response Director.
Americans failed to see the mounting evidence that Dr. Fauci’s strategies were consistently failing to achieve promised results, as he doggedly elevated Pharma profits and bureaucratic powers over waning public health.
As we shall see from this 50-year saga, Dr. Fauci’s remedies are often more lethal than the diseases they pretend to treat. His COVID prescriptions were no exception. His unprecedented quarantine of the healthy would kill far more people than COVID, obliterate the global economy, plunge millions into poverty and bankruptcy, and grievously wound constitutional democracy globally. We have no way of knowing how many people died from isolation, unemployment, deferred medical care, depression, mental illness, obesity, stress, overdoses, suicide, addiction, alcoholism, and the accidents that so often accompany despair.
We cannot dismiss the accusations that Fauci’s lockdowns proved more deadly than the contagion. A June 24, 2021 BMJ study showed that US life expectancy decreased by 1.9 years during the quarantine. The virus could not by itself cause the astonishing decline. Hispanic and Black Americans often shoulder the heaviest burden of Dr. Fauci’s public health adventures. Between 2018 and 2020, the average Hispanic American lost around 3.9 years in longevity, while the average lifespan of a Black American dropped by 3.25 years. This 1.9 year national average was roughly 8.5 times the average decrease in 16 comparable countries—making this dramatic culling unique to America. Steven Woolf, Director Emeritus of the Center on Society and Health at Virginia Commonwealth University, said, “We haven’t had a decrease of that magnitude since World War II.”
As Dr. Fauci’s policies took hold globally, 300 million humans fell into dire poverty, food insecurity, and starvation. During 2020, 10,000 children died each month due to virus-linked hunger from global lockdowns. In addition, 500,000 children per month experienced wasting and stunting from malnutrition, which can permanently damage children. In 2020, disruptions to health and nutrition services killed 228,000 children in South Asia. Deferred medical treatments for cancers, kidney failure, and diabetes killed hundreds of thousands of people and created epidemics of cardiovascular disease and undiagnosed cancer. Unemployment shock is expected to cause 890,000 additional deaths over the next 15 years.
The lockdown disintegrated vital food chains, dramatically increased rates of child abuse, as well as debilitating developmental delays, and severe educational deficits in young children. According to one study, suicide rates among children rose 50%. A study by Brown University found that infants born during the quarantine were short, on average, 22 IQ points. Some 93,000 Americans died of overdoses in 2020—a 30% increase over 2019. Millions of hospital and nursing home patients died alone without comfort or a final goodbye from their families. Dr. Fauci admitted that he never assessed the costs of desolation, poverty, unhealthy isolation, and depression fostered by his countermeasures. He explained, “I don’t give advice about anything other than public health”—even though he was so clearly among those responsible for the economic and social costs.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Fauci served as the ringmaster in the engineered demolition of America’s economy, putting 58 million Americans out of work, and permanently bankrupting small businesses, including 41 percent of black-owned businesses, some of which took generations to build.
Dr. Fauci’s business closures pulverized America’s middle class and engineered the largest upward transfer of wealth in human history. In 2020, workers lost 3.7 trillion while billionaires gained 3.9 trillion. Some 493 individuals became new billionaires, and an additional 8 million Americans dropped below the poverty line. The biggest winners were the robber barons—the very companies that were cheering Dr. Fauci’s lockdown and criticizing his critics: Big Tech, Big Data, Big Telecom, Big Finance, Big Media, and Silicon Valley Internet Titans.
The very internet companies that snookered us all with the promise of democratizing communications made it impermissible for Americans to criticize their government or question the safety of pharmaceutical products; these companies propped up all official pronouncements while scrubbing all dissent. The same Tech/Data and Telecom robber barons rapidly transformed America’s once-proud democracy into a censorship and surveillance police state from which they profit at every turn.
Larry Ellison, Bill Gates, and the other members of this government/industry collaboration used the lockdown to accelerate construction of their 5G network of satellites, antennae, biometric facial recognition, and “track and trace” infrastructure that they, and their government and intelligence agency partners, can use to mine and monetize our data, further suppress dissent, to compel obedience to arbitrary dictates, and to manage the rage that comes as Americans finally wake up to the fact that this outlaw gang has stolen our democracy, our civil rights, our country, and our way of life—while we huddled in orchestrated fear from a flu-like virus.
The dramatic and steady erosion of constitutional rights and fomenting of a global coup d'état against democracy, the demolition of our economy, the obliteration of a million small businesses, the collapsing of the middle class, the evisceration of our Bill of Rights, the tidal wave of surveillance capitalism and the rising bio-security state, seemed, to a dazed and uncritical America, like it might be reasonable price to pay for safety. And anyway, we were told, it’s just for 15 days, or maybe 15 months, or however long it takes for Dr. Fauci to “follow the data” to his answer.
Dr. Fauci’s catastrophic failure during the COVID-19 crisis is consistent with the disastrous declines in public health during his half-century running NIAID, including an exploding chronic disease epidemic that has made the “Fauci generation”—children born after his elevation to NIAID king in 1984—the sickest generation in American history. His subservience to the Big Ag, Big Food, and Big Pharma has left our children drowning in a toxic soup of pesticide residues, corn syrup, and processed foods, while serving as pincushions for 69 mandated vaccines doses by age 18—none of them properly safety tested.
By any measure Dr. Fauci has consistently failed upward. When Dr. Fauci took office, America was still ranked among the world’s healthiest populations. Following WWII, life expectancy in the US climbed for five decades, but as Tony Fauci spent the 1990s expanding the pharmaceutical and chemical paradigm—instead of public health—the pace of both longevity and intelligence slowed. An August, 2021 study by the Commonwealth Fund ranked America’s health care system dead last among industrialized nations, with the highest infant mortality and lowest life expectancy.
Under Dr. Fauci’s leadership, the allergic, autoimmune, and chronic illnesses which Congress specifically charged NIAID to investigate and prevent, have mushroomed to afflict 54 percent of children, up from 12.8 percent when he took over in 1984. Dr. Fauci has offered no explanations as to why allergic diseases like asthma, eczema, food allergies, allergic rhinitis, and anaphylaxis suddenly exploded in 1989, five years after he came to power. On its website, NIAID boasts that autoimmune disease is one of the agency’s top priorities. [Yet] some 80 autoimmune diseases, including juvenile diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis, Grave’s disease, and Crohn’s disease, which were practically unknown prior to 1984, suddenly became epidemic under his watch. Autism exploded from 3/10,000 Americans when Fauci joined NIAID, to one in thirty-four today. Neurological diseases have become commonplace in American children. By this decade’s end, obesity, diabetes, and pre-diabetes are on track to debilitate 85% of American citizens. America is among the ten most overweight countries on Earth. The health impacts of these epidemics eclipse even the most exaggerated health impacts of COVID-19.
What is causing this cataclysm? Since genes don’t cause epidemics, it must be environmental toxins. Many of these illnesses became epidemic in the late 1980s, after vaccine manufacturers were granted government protection from liability, and consequently accelerated their introduction of new vaccines. The manufacturer’s inserts of the 69 vaccine doses list each of the now-common illnesses—some 170 in total—as vaccine side effects. So vaccines are a potential culprit, but not the only one. Other possible perpetrators are corn syrup, flame retardants, processed foods, cell phone and EMF radiation, chlorpyrifos, ultrasound, and neonicotinoid pesticides. Tracing the etiology of these diseases is exactly what Congress charged Dr. Fauci to perform. But Tony Fauci has shown little interest in funding basic science to answer those questions.
Is this because any serious investigation into the sources of the chronic disease epidemic would certainly implicate the powerful pharmaceutical companies and the chemical, agricultural, and processed food multinationals that Dr. Fauci and his twenty-year business partner, Bill Gates, have devoted their careers to promoting? As we shall see, his capacity to curry favor with these merchants of pills, powders, potions, poisons, pesticides, pollutants, and pricks has been the key to Dr. Fauci’s longevity at HHS.
Is it fair to blame Dr. Fauci? Tony Fauci has more power than any other individual in America to direct public energies toward solutions. He has done the opposite. Instead, Dr. Fauci has deliberately and systematically used his staggering power to derail inquiry and obstruct research that might provide answers.
As an advocate for public health, robust science, and independent regulatory agencies, I [Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.] have battled Dr. Fauci for years. I know him personally, and my impression of him is very different from my fellow Democrats. Dr. Fauci played a historic role as the leading architect of “agency capture”—the corporate seizure of America’s public health agencies by the pharmaceutical industry.
Lamentably, Dr. Fauci’s failure to achieve public health goals during the COVID pandemic are not anomalous errors, but consistent with a recurrent pattern of sacrificing public health and safety on the altar of pharmaceutical profits and self-interests. He consistently prioritized pharmaceutical industry profits over public health. Dr. Fauci has, throughout his long career, routinely falsified science, deceived the public and physicians, and lied about safety and efficacy. Dr. Fauci’s malefactions detailed in this volume include his own crimes against the hundreds of Black and Hispanic orphan and foster children whom he subjected to cruel and deadly medical experiments and his role, with Bill Gates, in transforming hundreds of thousands of Africans into lab rats for low-cost clinical trials of dangerous experimental drugs. Dr. Fauci and Mr. Gates have turned the African continent into a dumping ground for expired, dangerous, and ineffective drugs, many of them discontinued for safety reasons in the US and Europe.
[In this book] you will read how Dr. Fauci’s fascination with, and generous investments in, so called “gain of function” experiments to engineer pandemic superbugs, give rise to the ironic possibility that Dr. Fauci may have played a role in triggering the global contagion that two US presidents entrusted him to manage. You will also read about his two-decade strategy of promoting false pandemics as a scheme for promoting novel vaccines, drugs, and Pharma profits. You will learn of his actions to conceal widespread contamination in blood and vaccines, his destructive vendettas against scientists who challenge the Pharma paradigm, his deliberate sabotaging of patent-expired remedies against infectious diseases, from HIV to COVID-19, to grease the skids for less effective, but more profitable remedies. You will learn of the grotesque body counts that have accumulated in the wake of his cold-blooded focus on industry profits over public health. All his strategies during COVID—falsifying science to bring dangerous and ineffective drugs to market, suppressing and sabotaging competitive products that have lower profit margins even if the cost is prolonging pandemics and losing thousands of lives—all of these share a common purpose: the myopic devotion to Pharma. Tony Fauci does not do public health; he is a businessman, who has used his office to enrich his pharmaceutical partners and expand the reach of influence that has made him the most powerful—and despotic—doctor in human history.
I wrote this book so that Americans can understand Dr. Fauci’s pernicious role in allowing pharmaceutical companies to dominate our government and subvert our democracy, and to chronicle the key role Dr. Fauci has played in the current coup d'état against democracy.
