Elon Musk slams Fauci for infamous ‘I am science’ quote that refuted all criticism of COVID policy
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Twitter CEO Elon Musk has announced that his social platform will promote ‘reasoned’ questioning of scientific data, while also digging into Dr. Fauci.
On Wednesday, Musk, who has been especially vocal on the platform since taking over in late October, wrote: “Twitter’s new policy is to follow the science, which necessarily includes reasoned questioning of the science.”
Gad Saad, a widely followed evolutionary behavioral scientist, jokingly responded to Musk’s tweet by posting a video of Dr. Fauci and writing: “Science is everything His Eminence Lord Fauci says it is.”
Musk ruffles feathers again on Twitter by declaring that the platform will “follow the science,” which will include robust questioning of theories and data — a dig for those who blindly followed the advice of the CDC and other governments during the pandemic. .
An exchange with popular evolutionary biologist Gad Saad gave Musk another opportunity to criticize Dr. Fauci, who was largely in charge of the government’s response to COVID.
“His Excellency is science,” Saad continued.
To which Musk replied: “Anyone who says that to question them is to question science itself cannot be considered a scientist.”
Musk then took his point a step further by posting a meme mocking those who “blindly believe anything.”
On multiple occasions during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Fauci has claimed that those who criticize him and his work are “actually criticizing the science.”
During a November 2021 interview, Fauci, speaking about the so-called politicization of public health, said that those criticizing the COVID response he led are “really criticizing science, because I represent science.”
“That’s dangerous,” he continued. ‘To me, that is more dangerous than the slingshots and arrows thrown at me. I won’t be here forever, but science will be here forever.
And if you damage science, you’re doing something very damaging to society long after I’m gone. And that is what worries me.
Although many users approved of Musk’s new policy, some were less thrilled and mocked and condemned Musk’s position.
New York Times contributor Wajahat Ali wrote that Musk’s statement was “something a really dumb person would tweet.”
Journalist Ashton Pittman further criticized Musk’s tweet, writing: “By ‘reasoned questioning,’ Elon Musk means the clown-bat car conspiracy theorist nonsense.”
As information about Twitter’s former ownership continues to become public, Musk recently revealed that company staff previously “had an internal Slack channel ironically called ‘Fauci Fan Club’.”
He also zeroed in on what he hinted may have been a chronic lack of institutional accountability around Fauci and his work as a high-level government scientist.
“Almost no one seems to realize that the NIH bioethics chief, the person who is supposed to make sure Fauci behaves ethically, is his wife,” Musk wrote.
Earlier this month, Musk surprised again when he tweeted: ‘My pronouns are Prosecutor/Fauci.
Dr. Fauci infamously claimed multiple times during the pandemic that criticizing his beliefs and responses to COVID-19 was criticizing science itself.
Musk posted a meme that further led to his criticism of those who established their beliefs in accordance with Dr. Fauci’s COVID commandments.
Laith Alkhouri, MSNBC analyst and CEO of risk intelligence wrote‘The scientific method has no place on Twitter.
“It’s done by seasoned scientists making observations and asking questions, and going through evaluations and re-evaluations, not 5G and flat earth conspiracy theorists.”
But while some doubt Twitter’s ability to serve as a platform for the fruitful exchange of scientific ideas, others appreciated Musk’s statement after years of accounts being silenced and banned for questioning the government’s line on COVID and a host of other related measures. with health. .
In response to Musk’s statement that following the science “necessarily includes reasoned questioning of the science,” Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton wrote: “Bad news for transgender extremists, greedy totalitarians, and climate alarmists.” .
Mathematical physicist and Thiel Capital managing director Eric Weinstein wrote that Musk’s decision “changes. All. If true.’
‘Is that a 1000% commitment to biologists that they can stop *lying* about biological sex, healthy reproductive development, ‘herd immunity’, genetic differences between geographically separated populations, horse paste, Wuhan Inst .GoF etc.?’ he wrote.
Joshua Stevens, NASA Earth mapping and data visualization leader, wrote that Musk’s policy is “fair and reasonable.”
‘And if any scientist tells you otherwise, never again let them wax poetic about *curiosity and wonder*’.