Disgraced former NIH Director Francis Collins could have retired quietly in relative peace, thanked his lucky stars he’s not extradited to the Hague for war crimes, and gone on collecting his lucrative speaking fees from pharma industry front groups like most of his colleagues do.
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Instead, he seems hellbent on getting himself investigated and prosecuted by continually mouthing off about “anti-vaxxers” or whatever and antagonizing the very people like RFK Jr. tasked with cleaning out the rot that he presided over for years.
Via TIME (emphasis added):
I've been increasingly concerned about the polarization of our society, and that goes back even before COVID. But COVID brought it out in a particularly troubling way, where information that might have been lifesaving, such as the use of the vaccines, did not always land with people who had already been influenced by lots of other misinformation*, or even disinformation, coming from social media, cable news, and sometimes politicians. So when I stepped down as NIH director, I began the effort to try to put together a book called The Road to Wisdom. It focuses particularly on the topic of truth: that there really is such a thing as objective truth. A society that decides truth is just how you feel about it, and that alternative facts are okay, is heading into a very dangerous place. And it feels like that's sort of where we are.
*These people’s pathological refusal to take any personal responsibility for their failures never fails to shock the conscience. Francis Collins was the font of misinformation during the pandemic. Peter Hotez was the font of misinformation. Anthony Fauci was the font. NIH at large was the font.
They lied over and over and over, always in the direction of increased terror and control — and then, when honest journalists expose them, the exposition of their hypocrisies and malfeasance is the “misinformation.”
Rather than ever apologizing — they’re never asked to by the “journalists” interviewing them during their friendly media performances, after all — they instead issue demands that the people who finance their largesse and criminal activities “pay respect.”Related: Ousted Director Francis Collins Demands Americans Pay ‘Utmost Respect’ to NIH
Continuing:
It worries me greatly now, seeing how that has played out in the last couple of months, in terms of drastic actions that are being taken against the federal support of science, with cuts in the [research support NIH provides], with firings of thousands of scientists including more than a thousand at NIH without really much consideration of what the consequences would be.
You, Francis Collins, failed miserably at your job.
You locked down schools and forced millions of people to take experimental drugs on the threat of losing their jobs or being expelled from school.
You made grandparents die alone, locked in nursing homes, while their relatives looked on helplessly through Zoom screens.
Don’t let them rewrite history to cover-up the tragic stories of families who were ripped apart by COVID lockdowns.
— Died Suddenly (@DiedSuddenly_) January 24, 2025
NEVER forget what Fauci, the CDC, and deep-state controlled tyrannical governors did to us. pic.twitter.com/QijE4QMtBS
You funded the creation of the virus at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the first instance!
Yet, here you are, harping away about how you’re somehow entitled, as some kind of ordained priest with a monopoly on science, to simply continue receiving lavish public funding in perpetuity.
