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American immunologist and head of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Controversies and persistent myths about Anthony Fauci’s role in early AIDS research are well-documented in recent reporting and commentary: critics and conspiracy authors have accused him of promotin...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his nonprofit Children’s Health Defense (CHD) filed a high-profile class-action lawsuit accusing President Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci and other federal officials of orchestrati...
Public records and patent databases show that Anthony S. Fauci is listed as an inventor on multiple patents and patent applications, mainly related to HIV biology and therapeutics assigned to the U.S....
Anthony Fauci was actively involved in HIV/AIDS research from the epidemic’s earliest days: he refocused his lab to study the new syndrome in 1981, produced influential work on how the virus damages t...
Key public records and reporting show the U.S. government — through grants to EcoHealth Alliance and collaborations involving U.S. scientists — funded coronavirus research that included bat-to-human r...
The viral claim that "Trump ordered the arrest of Barack Obama" and that Tulsi Gabbard "revealed charges" against Obama is ; multiple contemporaneous sources show no evidence of an arrest order or cha...
Available reporting shows Anthony Fauci did not personally pocket large pandemic-era royalties tied to NIH-held patents; he told lawmakers he receives “about $120 a year” from a decades-old monoclonal...
Dr. David E. Martin is presented in public documents with roles as and a Batten Fellow at the University of Virginia, but the available analyses show comparable to established vaccinologists . Contrad...
Available sources show Anthony Fauci’s household earnings have included federal salary, royalties and other payments that totaled about $1.78 million in 2020 and more than $3.5 million in 2023 accordi...
Public records show Anthony S. Fauci is named as a co‑inventor on multiple U.S. patent documents related to HIV‑research, including at least patents assigned to the U.S. government such as “Use of ant...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s 2021 book The Real Anthony Fauci advanced a wide-ranging critique that many outlets and fact-checkers have since found to contain demonstrably false, debunked, or misleading cl...
President Joe Biden issued an unprecedented number of clemency actions during his term, credited with that included broad commutations, a one-day mass action that commuted roughly 1,500 pandemic-era h...
Anthony Fauci’s public guidance on masks shifted from advising against general public use in early March 2020 to strongly endorsing widespread mask use and later nuanced guidance tied to vaccination s...
Anthony Fauci was a leading U.S. government researcher and policymaker on HIV/AIDS beginning in the early 1980s, helping push for research funding and clinical-trial networks at the NIH/NIAID . Claims...
President Joe Biden used clemency aggressively in his final year: he granted a high-volume commutation that freed 2,490 people (the White House list released Jan. 19, 2025) and issued headline-grabbin...
The House Oversight Committee released a report on October 28, 2025, asserting that President Joe Biden’s aides used an autopen to sign executive actions and pardons without his direct authorization a...
Documents and reporting show the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and NIAID provided funding to EcoHealth Alliance, which subcontracted work with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) on bat corona...
Charlie Kirk has publicly criticized or pushed back on specific actions and decisions associated with Donald Trump on multiple occasions, typically framing objections as strategic advice or issue-spec...
The documents provided contain no evidence that Dr. Anthony Fauci directed NIH staff to delete emails about COVID‑19; instead, they describe a release and technical conversion of his emails into a JSO...
NIH/NIAID funded EcoHealth Alliance grants that supported collaborative work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology; NIH later acknowledged at least one experiment funded through that grant produced a bat...