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The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health (Children’s Health Defense)

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#1 on AMAZON, and a NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, USA TODAY and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY NATIONAL BESTSELLERPharma-funded mainstream media has convinced millions of Americans that Dr. Anthony Fauci is a hero. He is anything but.   As director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Dr. Anthony Fauci dispenses $6.1 billion in annual taxpayer-provided funding for scientific research, allowing him to dictate the subject, content, and outcome of scientific health research across the globe. Fauci uses the financial clout at his disposal to wield extraordinary influence over hospitals, universities, journals, and thousands of influential doctors and scientists—whose careers and institutions he has the power to ruin, advance, or reward.   During more than a year of painstaking and meticulous research, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unearthed a shocking story that obliterates media spin on Dr. Fauci . . . and that will alarm every American—Democrat or Republican—who cares about democracy, our Constitution, and the future of our children’s health.  The Real Anthony Fauci reveals how “America’s Doctor” launched his career during the early AIDS crisis by partnering with pharmaceutical companies to sabotage safe and effective off-patent therapeutic treatments for AIDS. Fauci orchestrated fraudulent studies, and then pressured US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulators into approving a deadly chemotherapy treatment he had good reason to know was worthless against AIDS. Fauci repeatedly violated federal laws to allow his Pharma partners to use impoverished and dark-skinned children as lab rats in deadly experiments with toxic AIDS and cancer chemotherapies.   In early 2000, Fauci shook hands with Bill Gates in the library of Gates’ $147 million Seattle mansion, cementing a partnership that would aim to control an increasingly profitable $60 billion global vaccine enterprise with unlimited growth potential. Through funding leverage and carefully cultivated personal relationships with heads of state and leading media and social media institutions, the Pharma-Fauci-Gates alliance exercises dominion over global health policy.  The Real Anthony Fauci details how Fauci, Gates, and their cohorts use their control of media outlets, scientific journals, key government and quasi-governmental agencies, global intelligence agencies, and influential scientists and physicians to flood the public with fearful propaganda about COVID-19 virulence and pathogenesis, and to muzzle debate and ruthlessly censor dissent.
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> I very much doubt mainstream science is completely ignoring the panacea and preferring suboptimal solutions.

"Mainstream" medical science is driven by a massive conflict of interest due to relying on funding from pharmaceutical companies and bureaucrats with a financial interest in pharmaceutical companies. This is why for decades mainstream medical science insisted smoking was healthy. There's a great book on this: https://www.amazon.com/Real-Anthony-Fauci-Democracy-Children...

Author:

“Joel Smalley

Pro bono COVID data analysis for legal challenges and independent media seeking the truth (e.g. Dr Tess Lawrie's letter to the MHRA - https://bit.ly/3FZxpU7 and Robert Kennedy's book - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Real-Anthony-Fauci-Democracy-Childr...), shared publicly "for the greater good".”

I assume “Pro bono COVID data analysis” means “untrained hobbyist”.

If you find this interesting you may want to check out the Best Seller "The Real Anthony Fauci" [1] by Rober F. Kennedy Jr. Your jaw will likely drop while reading it. All the studies and source material is cited at the end of every chapter and you can review much of the clinical data and decide for yourself.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Real-Anthony-Fauci-Democracy-Children...

NicoJuicy
The reviews are positive.

I quickly looked at the author's personality and think it's a guy with the heart in a good place ( he had a role against Monsanto!), but a disturbed view of the world.

I then looked at Faucci's response and he mentioned something similar as my first thoughts.

I then looked at some of the examples and they are just wack and couldn't find proof of it.

> Fauci repeatedly violated federal laws to allow his Pharma partners to use impoverished and dark-skinned children as lab rats in deadly experiments with toxic AIDS and cancer chemotherapies.

It's a heated conspiracy book of a smart person of a well known family with a somewhat turbulent personal life, who benefits from funding money against anti-vaccine measures through his foundation.

The difference is, that he's also trying to do good for the environment, which sounds kinda contradicting and hard to grasp for me. I've never seen that combination before.

TrispusAttucks
The AIDS scandal is in the second half of the book. The first half is the COVID pandemic. The book goes backwards through time following Fauci's rise through government and involvement with the FDA, NIH, NIAID.

The AIDS scandal you mentioned is well documented. The BBC aired a documentary on it known as the Guinea Pig Kids [0][1][2].

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20070212002632/http://guineapigk...

[1] https://www.democracynow.org/2004/12/22/guinea_pig_kids_how_...

[2] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/this_world/4038375.stm

NicoJuicy
I'm not disputing scandals can exist, uncorrelated to this specific case.

I'm disputing direct correlation with Faucci, which is a very different proof to give and this reasoning is highly subjective and much abused with conspiracy theories.

After quickly looking it up:

https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-410618634223

https://www.snopes.com/news/2021/10/27/fauci-aids-drug-trial...

Even here the so called proof by the author is misleading and this was just the first one i even bothered to look up.

This was the main topic in the introduction of the book. I would expect better research instead of misleading one.

Additionally, the first result on Google is literally the site of the author's foundation.

Conspiracy theories are often based on far-fetched theories where the difference between truth and lies are misleading, similar to this example.

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I'm sorry, but this book didn't pass the smell test.

Although I have to admit, it's a good attempt and it's been a while that I had to search for more than 5 minutes to be sure. Definitely because he actually seems to care about the environment, as mentioned before.

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One simple trick would be ( from my POV) that the more people are required to work together for a conspiracy-theory to be successfull. The less likely it is.

Just look at the dozens of mistakes that are produced with one "unplanned live-show" orchestrated by a governement who prepared this for 8 years currently.

TrispusAttucks
I don't disagree, in part.

Those links shared weren't from the book, just a quick search to show that its not a totally fabricated scandal.

I will admit that there may be plenty of outrage, hyperbole, loose play with the facts in the book's AIDS chapters, but it does seem like a fact that (according to the book):

    Children of color in the New York foster system were experimented on with a toxic drug often against there will with dubious or missing consent and consent was often granted via the foster system for children that had no parents or guardians.
That much is admitted outright and referenced in your links.

The book does take it further and cover things that don't have official documentation and includes testimony of people who worked at the facilities. Just because there is no official documentation doesn't mean we should discount the the word of the people who worked there.

Absolute Truth is indeed a tricky thing.

NicoJuicy
But as mentioned before, it's still mostly irrelevant.

Even if the event happened, which can be possible. Blaming/Tying it to someone is a totally different thing, that would require totally different proof.

If the proof of the event already starts being doubtful within a couple of minutes of superficial checks. I don't think there is going to be anything left for tieing it to Faucci.

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This is literally what the creator of the Vera report says when asked about the conspiracy theory of deaths:

> Tim Ross, a lead author of the Vera report, said in a phone interview that those suggesting the clinical trials were the cause of the 25 deaths were “completely misreading what we found.”

> “Our report does not support that claim,” said Ross, now the managing partner of Action Research, a child welfare research group. He noted that children who participated in such trials were “incredibly sick” before the trials.

Which seems pretty logical. People with aids then, didn't have the medical help they can have now.

TrispusAttucks
I agree with your claim that placing the blame on Faucci for the AIDS scandal is unwarranted. I don't think the book makes that claim in its AIDS chapters, only that he was present during this alleged scandal.

He is a large feature of the book (perhaps for marketing?) but it also covers the history of the government health institutions associated with regulating the pharmaceutical industry.

The book is 400+ pages, too much content to summarize in a few comments on HN. I found it a fascinating read, you may as well or you may not.

NicoJuicy
To be honest. The quick smell test failed on the thing that was mentioned primarily in the book intro. I would've expected much better of this example considering that.

Checking those things constantly is exhausting on a human. We tend to get lost in the details and thereby forgetting the main issue.

And I've got plenty of other things that I need to do, considering I also read HN ( = some procrastination :p ).

There are several studies showing positive effects of ivermectin in vivo. Here is one [0] two [1].

One potential problem with ivermectin is it's patent expired in 1996. So not a lot of money to be made from a generic treatment that is cheap and abundant.

How far would Big Pharma go to secure profits? [2] Find out for yourself. Warning ignorance really is bliss and your worldview may be shaken.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33592050/

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34466270/

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Real-Anthony-Fauci-Democracy-Children...

dragonwriter
> There are several studies showing positive effects of ivermectin in vivo

There are lots. And lots showing the opposite. Meta-analysis of those has shown that there are two factors with strong positively correlation with a study showing positive results for ivermectin:

(1) indicators of quality problems with the study, and

(2) the study being conducted where parasite infections known to exacerbate COVID and know to be treatable with ivermectin are endemic.

Ivermectin is a very good treatment for certain parasitic infections that make COVID worse, but there is very little reason to believe it is a good treatment for COVID aside from that. Which makes potentially it still a good component of treatment where undiagnosed parasitic infection is likely, but not more generally.

TrispusAttucks
Yes. Glad to see the Japanese are reporting antiviral effects.
The pandemic is an enormous cash cow and power grab. Going away? It's never going away, in the same way that the Patriot Act is never going away.

This book is a best seller at Amazon now for a reason:

https://www.amazon.com/Real-Anthony-Fauci-Democracy-Children...

qsdf38100
Why are some people trusting anything as long as it’s against official knowledge? Sure governments have lied about things and will always do, but why would you blindly trust anything when you are so septical? Have you ever considered the possibility that non-official claims can be lies too? If you think about it, lying is much easier when you aren’t accountable for anything.
Schiendelman
There’s a book about this entitled “The Revolt of the Public.”
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