Anthony Fauci’s high-profile Senate hearing: what we learned

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A US Senate committee hearing featuring Dr Anthony Fauci revealed at least one certainty: six years after the pandemic, politicizing science remains a vital political tactic. The high-profile hearing was pitched by its Republican chair, Rand Paul of Kentucky, as an investigation into the origins of the Covid pandemic. It quickly became a forum for recrimination of a once-leading US government scientist by Republican senators. Fauci, a career civil servant who spent 38 years at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (Niaid), declined throughout the hearing to answer questions. Here are five takeaways from Wednesday’s hearing. Rand Paul’s ‘unhinged obsession’ with Fauci The hearing was centered around an…

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