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

Source: www.theguardian.com · Section: headlines · Bias: Center-Left · Published: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:02:22 GMT

Six years on from Covid crisis, Republicans still politicizing science – and Fauci remains a political punching bagA 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. Continue reading...

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