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This is where I will be posting public content from my professional life as well as aspects of my personal life and hobbies. After 30 years of developing products and software systems for the Internet, I am finally starting to put a bit more public information on the Internet. As with nearly everything else on the Internet, this is very much a work in progress.
tl;dr: Francis Collins’s naïveté and gullibility permeate this exceedingly pedantic tome...
I’ve had a particular fascination with Francis Collins, who was (in theory) Anthony Fauci’s boss before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, while Collins was NIH Director and Fauci was head of NIAID. See my four-post series Parsing Francis Collins’s comments on what happened in Wuhan and my post Parsing Francis Collins’s comments on what happened in D.C. In reality, of course, Fauci was Collins’s boss, given Fauci’s long tenure, much higher compensation, and dual-role as head of NIAID and director of the U.S.’s biodefense/bioweapon/biowarfare program. Collins’s recent book The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, Science, Faith, and Trust firmly establishes why Collins was the perfect boss for Fauci, who had no desire for any interference as he pursued gain-of-function (a.k.a. death-maximizing) virus research. If you are Fauci, you either want a boss like President Joe Biden, who suffered from diminished mental capacity (dementia?) and was unable to manage his employees, or like Collins, who was so naïve, gullible, and trusting as to never interfere with or impede anything Fauci wanted to do...
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