Qualifying Elon Musk's Remarks On Anthony Fauci

Fauci shills play fast and loose with the facts.

Elon Musk stirred up the bee hive by remarking that Anthony Fauci’s wife Christine Grady posed a conflict-of-interest as head of bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (NIH CC).

It’s about as close as Elon has gotten to condemning mRNA shots so far, although I’ve got to admit I’m confused, he’s slowly unbanning vaccine skeptics on Twitter (Naomi Wolf, Steve Kirsch, Robert Malone, Jikki the mouse, Stop the Mandates and more are back) but he is still financing mRNA shot manufacturing tech. Que?

Within moments of his post, however, Anthony Fauci shills descended (most wearing Ukrainian flags for some reason) doing everything they could to engage in damage control, from insinuating Fauci never worked there (false), to suggesting Grady had no influence on his work (also proveably false).

The Daily Beagle is here to equip you with the knowledge necessary to refute the unshaven, mountain dew drinking hordes!

Anthony Fauci Did Indeed Work At NIH Clinical Center

‘This is my evil scheming pose’

He’s even on a PBS interview admitting he had an office set up there between 1981 to 1983:

[…] I was sitting in my office at the NIH [National Institutes of Health] Clinical Center going through some literature that comes on my desk daily […]

He married Christine Grady, a nurse at the time, at the NIH Clinical Center in 1983, something Vogue magazine gushed over like a cringey pre-teen. By sheer coincidence, Christine would jump through the ranks to become head of bioethics. Convenient.

Even the NIH Clinical Center as recent as December 2022 couldn’t help but gush over the interwoven connections of influence between Anthony Fauci and the Clinical Center, which gave arguably the most singly bias slathering of nauseating praise I’ve seen in any publication (and remember, this is supposed to be a neutral, scientific outlet, not a Fauci praise simulator):

[…] I think Dr. Fauci's inherent goodness, as evidenced by the vignettes in this piece, is the epoxy that binds the NIH Clinical Center tightly to him. He loves the Clinical Center and we know it. The Clinical Center loves him and we surely hope he knows that as well. Those of us who work in the NIH Clinical Center have been witnesses to Dr. Fauci's goodness for over forty years. […]

You’d think it was a stint appeal for sainthood the way it is written. 40 years of influence despite supposedly never working there, huh?

‘That’s just an old job’, scream the Fauci shills, ‘it’s no longer relevent, he works at NIAID [National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases]’. Yeah, one problem with that.

NIH Clinical Center Also Oversees NIAID Research

Oops. Publicly announced by the NIAID itself, they declare they conduct “many clinical trials at the NIH Clinical Center”, in Bethesda, Maryland.

This includes, surprise, gain-of-function research.

There’s no doubt a myraid of other NIAID studies, but this just one example to demonstrate.

This led rise to arguably the most illogical take I had seen: the NIH Clinical Center bioethics department don’t oversee experiements held by the NIAID… at the NIH Clinical Center… of which the NIH Clinical Center of bioethics… oversees… what?

Bolded for anyone confused by what the NIH Clinical Center of bioethics department does:

The Department of Bioethics is a center for research, training, and service related to bioethical issues. The Department conducts conceptual, empirical, and policy-related research into bioethical issues; offers comprehensive training to future bioethicists and educational programs for biomedical researchers and clinical providers; and provides high quality ethics consultation services to clinicians, patients, and families of the NIH's Clinical Center and advice to the NIH IRBs, investigators, and others on the ethical conduct of research.

And even more simplified: bioethics advise on ethical biological research. Including calling out unethical research, moving to stop unethical research in progress, and facilitating higher ethical standards in research.

You know, avoiding unnecessary research on Beagles using sandflies, for example. And preventing research in-breach of law. Like gain-of-function research, for example. Or at least, it should. If there wasn’t a conflict-of-interest.

Christine Grady Presents A Conflict-Of-Interest

During the most controversial years of Fauci’s work, Grady presents a major conflict-of-interest in holding his work to account. Essentially, there was no bioethical oversight of anything Anthony Fauci was doing at the NIH Clinical Center, because contradicting Fauci would mean Grady putting her marriage with Fauci at risk.

This isn’t as if the two were working together on a research paper, or working distinct, non-oversight related roles. We’re talking one, supposedly meant to hold oversight on the research work of the other. Even whilst the other marches around the place for 40 years despite not being supposedly employed there.

Even if we presume Grady is not intentionally be trying to be bias, as many researchers point out, conflict of interests are ‘subconscious’, they influence our decision making at a deeper level, beyond that of what we’re perceptive of, whether we know it or not.

This is no small influence. She has to live with the man. He has all the time in the world to convince her one way or the other.

NIH Clinical Center

If a judge or member of the jury was related to the co-defendant of a court case, they’d be required to recuse due to a conflict of interest. In this case, however, oversight of bioethics was compromised by the fact the head Clinical Center bioethicist was literally in bed with with the head of NIAID who conducts research at the Clinical Center. No recusal, no appropriate job allocation. The dripping irony of a bioethicist having an unethical conflict-of-interest in biologics research.

This prompts the need for a systematic review of anything under Grady’s tenure that involved any work by Fauci, especially any gain-of-function or similarly related research. There’s no telling the damage this conflict of interest has done.

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