Dr. Anthony Fauci, a government bureaucrat since 1968, headed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984 to 2023. Last November, in the run-up to his 84^th birthday on Christmas Eve, Fauci made a claim his followers and critics had never heard before.

“It has been firmly established that the origin of HIV is zoonotic,” Fauci proclaimed in “HIV and COVID-19: Shared Lessons From Two Pandemics.” For those not around in the 1980s, that requires explanation.

“HIV” is Fauci’s code for AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) also known as “HIV/AIDS,” an infectious disease that fails to qualify as a pandemic. Nevertheless, Fauci once contended that AIDS would ravage the general population, even though—as Michael Fumento noted in widely-regarded book, The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS, the syndrome never moved beyond male homosexuals, hemophiliacs, and intravenous drug users in significant numbers.

The discoverer of HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus, was virologist Luc Montagnier, director of the Viral Oncology Unit at the Pasteur Institute in France. From 1983, the year of that discovery, to his death in 2022, the Nobel laureate never flagged a zoonotic origin for HIV that anybody can find. Fauci appears to be working backwards, applying to AIDS the same claim he made for COVID.

According to Fauci, the COVID virus originated naturally in the wild—pure speculation backed by no replicated study. In similar style, the origin of AIDS was a matter of dispute. Fauci, whose bio includes no advanced degrees in molecular biology or biochemistry, claimed HIV was the sole cause of AIDS. Medical scientists who were far more qualified thought otherwise.

The dissenters included Harvard molecular biologist Charles Thomas, biochemist and Nobel laureate Kary Mullis, and UC Berkeley molecular biologist Peter Duesberg—a member of the National Academy of Sciences and recipient of an outstanding investigator grant. They had never seen a retrovirus with such destructive capabilities and could find no animal model for AIDS.

Instead of debating these scientists, Fauci denounced them as “AIDS denialists” and worked behind the scenes to cancel Duesberg’s media appearances and target his National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants. That hindered the cancer research that brought Duesberg to UC Berkeley in 1964, two years before Anthony Fauci earned his medical degree at Cornell. In 2020, the NIAID boss deployed the same tactic with COVID.

Medical scientists more qualified than Fauci found evidence of a laboratory origin for the novel virus. The dissenters included CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield, an experienced virologist, who got death threats after finding signs of a laboratory origin. Instead of debating these scientists, Fauci denounced them as “conspiracy theorists,” and he now applies the zoonitic origin to AIDS. His purpose should be easy to discern. A natural origin for AIDS eliminates any role for human behavior in acquiring the syndrome.

On that theme, see the 1983 How to Have Sex During an Epidemic, by Richard Berkowitz and Michael Callen, with a foreword by Dr. Joseph Sonnabend MD, one of the first to identify the AIDS epidemic. Backrooms, bookstores, balconies, meat racks and tea rooms, readers learn, are settings that “permit diseases to spread like brush fire. If you have sex with three partners, each of whom just had sex with three partners, diseases are spread exponentially,” and “as bathhouse experience has taught many gay men, the bathhouses are full of disease.”

To avoid AIDS, the pamphlet warned about unprotected anal sex and the practice of “rimming” (analingus), which could not be made “risk free.” According to Medical News Today, persons who ingest fecal material “may be at risk of contracting a number of viruses, bacteria, or parasites.”

Bathhouses were also wafting with “poppers,” amyl and butyl nitrites that “cause blood vessels to dilate and they may actually facilitate the entry of microorganisms into the blood stream.” Amyl nitrite “suppresses the immune system and long-term use has been linked to increased rates of cancer, including Kaposi’s sarcoma.” Inhaling poppers “can cause severe effects and may be fatal.”

As the authors conclude, “sex and ‘promiscuity’ have become the dogma of gay male liberation … the party that was the seventies is over. Taking ignorance to the baths and backrooms is not sexual freedom—it’s oppression.” Finally, “the AIDS crisis may prove to have been a crystal-clear reflection of just how little we knew about protecting our health.”

At the time, state governments never shut down the bathhouses or undertook contact tracing, a standard practice of public health. But instead of insisting on that, Fauci wound up siding with the militant AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), which blamed everything on government inaction.

The bathhouse culture, poppers, and such get extensive treatment in And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts, and Inventing the AIDS Virus by professor Duesberg, books which are still available today. Consider also the evidence for human action in the rise of COVID.

Dr. Xiangguo Qiu, a Chinese national who headed the special pathogens unit at Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg, exported a cargo of deadly pathogens to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), which works with China’s military. In 2017-18 Qiu made at least five trips to China, including one to train scientists at the Wuhan lab. That’s the same lab Fauci funded to perform gain-of-function research, once banned in the United States because it makes viruses more lethal and transmissible.

The WIV, in turn, collaborated closely with the Galveston National Laboratory (GNL), a creation of Fauci’s NIAID. GNL director James LeDuc signed agreements with three Chinese labs, including the WIV, giving China the power to destroy “secret files, materials and equipment, without any backups.” While collaborating with the WIV in this fashion, LeDuc also maintained that the COVID virus originated from nature and “the Chinese just happened to be in the place where this was discovered.”

For LeDuc, the claim that the virus emerged from a laboratory in Wuhan was a “conspiracy theory,”and this was  the same charge Fauci flung at all critics. His claim that the COVID virus is zoonotic discounts the considerable evidence of a lab origin and covert NIAID collaboration with China. That is surely the purpose of “Lessons from Two Pandemics,” which is also interesting for what it conceals.

“Attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science,” Fauci proclaimed in 2021. In 2023, he allegedly retired but continued to receive a government-paid chauffer and security detail, so the people have cause to wonder. Current NIAID Director Jeanne Marrazzo, is one of his faithful disciples, and the chief of bioethics on “human subjects research” at the National Institutes of Health is Fauci’s wife Christine Grady, who holds a Ph.D. in philosophy and bioethics from Georgetown University.

In 1995 Grady an NIH nurse, authored The Search for an AIDS Vaccine, which fails to tell readers that she had been married to the NIAID boss for 10 years at the time. The following year, Grady became deputy director of the Department of Bioethics of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center, and in 2012, the NIH gave Grady the top job. The official NIH announcement makes no mention of Grady’s marriage to NIAID boss Anthony Fauci, and no mention of The Search for an AIDS Vaccine.

Grady finds limited success in the development of vaccines against retroviral infections and sexually transmitted diseases, and acknowledges that “HIV is an STD,” also “associated with social deviance.” Nothing about that zoonotic origin her husband now touts in his “shared lessons” paper. Grady did, however, support drug trials on children and pregnant women and touted the highly toxic AZT (azidothymidine, zidovudine), her husband’s drug of choice to treat AIDS, as a “boon to research.” So the NIH ethics boss is probably also down with his retroactive zoonotic claim.

To all but the willfully blind, Fauci seeks to avoid accountability for his past actions, but the man who claims to represent science is also looking to the future. “HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 and many other zoonotic diseases underscore the importance of expanding pathogen surveillance at interfaces between humans, domestic animals and wildlife,” the NIAID boss claims. That makes a case for strengthening government health agencies and giving more power to those who run them.

“COVID-19 has shone a bright light on how the social determinants of health lead to disparities in incidents and severities of disease,” writes Fauci, with no scientific explanation of these “social determinants.” As the people might note, “social science” is not in the same league as molecular biology and biochemistry.

The paper also invokes the “disproportionate disease burden among underserved populations.” So “policies are needed to ensure universal, equitable and affordable health coverage.” Fauci thus makes the case for government monopoly healthcare, with supposedly infallible health bosses laying down mandates with no scientific verification, as Fauci modeled during the COVID pandemic.

The great lesson of COVID and AIDS is that no single person, let alone a megalomaniac Lysenko figure like Anthony Fauci, should be allowed to control public health policy and medical research funding for decades with no accountability to the people. If confirmed, Trump picks Dr. Jay Bhattacharya (NIH), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (HHS), David Weldon (CDC), and Pam Bondi (Justice Department) will have the opportunity to end white coat supremacy once and for all. Be assured the people will be watching.