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

The Guardian reports that a US Senate committee hearing with Dr. Anthony Fauci became a focal point for Republican criticism this week. Republican chair Rand Paul of Kentucky had pitched it as an investigation into the origins of the pandemic, but the hearing quickly became a forum for recrimination of the former government scientist. Six years after Covid-19, the episode illustrates that politicizing science remains a central strategy in American politics.

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