President-elect Donald Trump, survivor of  two assassination attempts, has selected Elon Musk for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The goal is to scale down the federal leviathan, and the SpaceX and Tesla entrepreneur holds strong opinions about federal health agencies and those who run them.

“Remember that one time in the 80s-90s when people died from AIDS treatment and not the actual AIDS virus?” Musk noted in a recent X post. “Remember the one doctor who promoted that treatment?” he further asked and accompanied his comments with a photo of Dr. Anthony Fauci. Embattled Americans know Fauci from his 2020 Covid lockdowns and vaccine campaigns, but key stages of his career need further exposure.

Anthony Fauci earned a medical degree in 1966 but in 1968 he took a cushy “yellow beret” job with the National Institutes of Health. Fauci’s bio showed no advanced degrees in biochemistry or molecular biology, but in 1984 the NIH made him director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Nobel laureate Kary Mullis, inventor of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), went on record that Fauci “doesn’t understand electronic microscopy and doesn’t understand medicine,” and “should not be in a position like he’s in.” The NIAID boss would prove Mullis correct.

Fauci’s drug of choice for AIDS was AZT, a DNA chain terminator abandoned as a cancer treatment during the 1960s because of its excessive toxicity. Despite the record, the FDA approved AZT for AIDS treatment with lightning speed. For more information on that disaster, see Poison by Prescription: The AZT Story by John Lauritsen. Lauritsen’s book was endorsed by, among others, UC Berkeley molecular biologist Harry Rubin, a pioneer in the field of retroviruses.

Lauritsen noted an important study: “Effects of Continuous Intravenous Infusion of Zidovudine (AZT) in Children with Symptomatic HIV Infection,” by Phillip Rizzo et. al., published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Oct. 6, 1988. That study showed that five of the 21 children in the trial died, but Fauci looked the other way. The NIAID boss forced AZT and other toxic drugs on foster children in New York City, with disastrous results. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s pick for Health and Human Services (HHS) charted those experiments in his book, The Real Anthony Fauci. But there is even more to Fauci’s misdeeds.

Elon Musk, who once tweeted “My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci,” picked up on a back story that escaped notice. “Almost no one seems to realize,” Musk tweeted, “that the head of bioethics at NIH—the person who is supposed to make sure that Fauci behaves ethically—is his wife.” That would be National Institutes of Health bioethics boss Christine Grady. She served with the National Institute of Nursing Research, a division of the NIH, and in 1995 authored The Search for an AIDS Vaccine.

As Grady explains, NIAID is “the branch of the NIH primarily responsible for vaccine development.” Grady identifies Dr. Anthony Fauci as “director of NIAID” but fails to tell readers that she had been married to the NIAID boss for 10 years. This blatant deception proceeds from a health professional with a Ph.D. in philosophy and bioethics from Georgetown University.

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 Dr. Fauci, and no mention of The Search for an AIDS Vaccine. In that book, Grady touts “the availability and effectiveness of AZT” as a boon to research, and presents children and pregnant women as suitable subjects for drug trials. In advance, Fauci’s wife justified her husband’s actions during the pandemic. 

Children were the group least vulnerable to the COVID virus but from the start Fauci set out to vaccinate children. The NIAID boss endorsed doses of Pfizer’s vaccine for children ages six months through four years old. As Fauci explained, for kids under the age of four, “it looks like it will be a three-dose regimen.” Biologist Rebecca Culshaw laid out the connection in The Real AIDS Epidemic: How the Tragic HIV Mistake Threatens Us All.

“In rushing to approve mRNA vaccines for COVID,” Culshaw explains, “what was essentially a massive clinical trial was conducted in real time on the entire population.” (emphasis added) And it was all justified by Dr. Fauci’s wife, NIH ethics boss Christine Grady, who notes that “the regulations governing the conduct for clinical trials for vaccines in the U.S. are the same as those for clinical trials of drugs.”

The AIDS empire Fauci built during the 1990s empowered the white coat supremacy regime of 2020 and beyond. That empire now strikes back at Trump picks Kennedy and Musk. Like everybody less than worshipful of Fauci, RFK Jr. gets smeared as a “conspiracy theorist,” the default accusation of the left. In the wake of Musk’s post about AIDS, Culshaw notes, “a most curious phenomenon has arisen: People are suddenly defending AZT, when previously it has been mostly ignored since it’s an embarrassment to the scientific community.” Supposedly there are no allowable challenges to the official science inflicted by those in power.

It is as though the disfigured victims of Thalidomide should suddenly march in the drug’s favor and trash its opponents. Meanwhile, Kennedy and Musk have gained a powerful ally in Stanford Medical School professor and health economist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya. Trump’s pick to head the NIH also has a history with Dr. Fauci and friends.

Bhattacharya joined Harvard professor of medicine Martin Kulldorff and Oxford epidemiologist Sunetra Gupta in the Great Barrington Declaration (GBD), signed by a host of medical scientists, most if not all more qualified than Fauci. They made the case to end lockdowns of schools and other harmful policies. Instead of debating the GBD scientists, National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins smeared them as “fringe epidemiologists” and deployed Fauci for a “quick and devastating takedown.”

Bhattacharya also joined Murthy v. Missouri, a lawsuit contending that the administration censored dissenting speech on COVID and other policies by pressuring tech platforms to remove or restrict posts that displeased politicians and government health bureaucrats. On X, Bhattacharya charged that history “will judge those in charge of the COVID policy, and it will not judge kindly.” Bhattacharya, Musk, and Kennedy now have an opportunity to render judgments, and the time for kindness has long passed.

As NIH director, Bhattacharya could examine the colossal conflict of interest posed by NIAID boss Fauci and his wife Christine Grady. It is as though Pat Nixon headed a committee on Watergate, or Nancy Reagan held sway over the Iran Contra investigation. Find out if Dr. Fauci ever said or did anything with which the NIH ethics official disagreed. A ballpark figure is probably zero.

The $6.5 billion NIAID, one of 27 NIH divisions, is now commanded by Fauci disciple Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, a veneral disease specialist and advocate of “health equity.” NIAID operates in 128 countries. Bhattacharya could investigate Fauci’s drug testing campaigns in Africa, where side effects can be hidden. Find out if those testing the drugs are told up front that NIAID officials get a piece of the action.

Bhattachayra and Kennedy can bring to light Fauci’s ties with Big Pharma. No more redactions in the royalty reports for Fauci and other NIH bosses. No more funding of gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Those flagging the Fauci-funded WIV as the source of the pandemic will no longer be smeared as conspiracy theorists. There is so much for Bhattacharya, who also earned a Ph.D. in economics, to explore.

If the $6.5 billion NIAID survives, the director should be limited to one four-year term, with all grants posted on the internet in real time and downloadable form.  Never again should a Lysenko figure like Anthony Fauci, who claims “I represent science,” wield executive-level power, with no accountability to the people. Never again should the same person, or the same group of government bureaucrats, control public health policy and spending on medical research.

For all but the willfully blind, white coat supremacy is incompatible with the openness to questioning which is essential to a constitutional republic. Bhattacharya, Kennedy, and Musk have the best chance to end it once and for all. The people will be watching.