Reviewing Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s book, The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health, my first three posts went through the Introduction practically line by line. Although there was so much wrong, my posts only could only begin to broach the errors and the lies. For those who don't want to plow through the more detailed analyses, I decided to summarize my critiques here. The detailed evidence and the poring over original sources can be found on what I have already published. Entry #1, here. Entry #2, here. Entry #3, here.
My Major Points.
#1. The book is poorly constructed. The Index and Table of Contents refer to page numbers. There are no page numbers. Supporting citations are given at the end of each chapter (and the Introduction). When the footnotes are numbered, there are no corresponding numbers in the text. In the Introduction the footnotes are not even numbered, just introduced by <?>. This makes it very confusing trying to find what he is using to support what statement, and from going through the footnotes, I was left believing some statements were not supported at all.
#2. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a poor writer. When he is not raving, he is repeating the same points over and over. For example, in one sentence he decries, "novel, shoddily tested, improperly licensed technology so risky that manufacturers refused to produce it unless every government on Earth shielded them from liability." Two sentences later, "unwanted, experimental, zero-liability medical interventions." He has no hierarchy to his thoughts. He prefers insults over building an argument.
#3. Virtually nothing that Kennedy says is supported by his citations. I detail this item by item. Very little is supported by the experts he cites, and frankly, several of those he cites strongly disagree with him.
#4. Kennedy tells whoppers. "Dr. Anthony Fauci spent half a century as America's reigning health commissar . . ." He repeats this, talking of Fauci's "50 year regime." Fauci first ascended to be in charge of a governmental health care agency in 1984, NIAID. NIAID has a small portion of the US health research budget. Thirty-seven years being in charge of anything would have been honest (the book was written in 2021).
And speaking of whoppers, there's this one that would make any physician who began their careers during the 1980s or before do a spit-take. "Some 80 autoimmune diseases, including juvenile diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis, Graves' disease and Crohn's disease, which were practically unknown prior to 1984, suddenly became epidemic under his [Fauci's] watch."
Of course, the diseases listed were not practically unknown before 1984. I took two of them, juvenile diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis, and showed how their numbers have increased over time: but not much since the 1980s. Juvenile diabetes was virtually unknown a century ago because the patient had a life expectancy of two years after diagnosis. Numbers went up as treatment became available.
#5. Kennedy blames virtually everything on Fauci. "As Dr. Fauci's policies took hold globally, 300 million fell into poverty . . ." The "explosion" of autoimmune diseases cited above. And extending beyond autoimmune diseases, "Under Fauci's leadership, the allergic, autoimmune, and chronic illnesses which Congress specifically charged NIAID to investigate and prevent, have mushroomed to afflict 54 percent of children, up from 12.8 percent he took over."
#6. Kennedy contradicts himself. He says that Fauci is responsible for the worldwide response to COVID and then blames Fauci for America's response and how America's casualties were much worse than the rest of the world. If Fauci was responsible for the worldwide response, other countries would have done as poorly as the United States.
#7. Kennedy leaves out anything that might dispute his tirade. In listing nations that did better than the United States, he doesn't include those that did worse. In the articles he cites, he leaves out key words. For example, he cites the article as saying the COVID response caused suffering and death when the article says COVID itself did.
#8. I made a detailed argument that America fared poorly during the COVID epidemic because many Americans did not listen to Fauci. Other countries that did not listen to Fauci, for example, Bolsonaro's Brazil and Orbán's Hungary, fared worse than America over the time period Kennedy chose. Individual states in the United States that permitted large gatherings or had poor vaccination rates, fared much worse than the nation as a whole.
Which leads me to the conclusion that Kennedy has a very disorganized mind. Furthermore, with so many false statements, he must know he is lying. Even though, correcting individual statements was quite often easy, correcting him proved exhausting just from the sheer number of his lies.
Correcting him is necessary. That he should have any power over decisions regarding health is mind-boggling.
To Be Continued with Chapter One.
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