{"id":12469,"date":"2020-07-07T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T17:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12469"},"modified":"2020-07-06T17:06:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T00:06:06","slug":"an-industry-of-untruth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/an-industry-of-untruth\/","title":{"rendered":"An Industry of Untruth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The current revolution is based on a series of lies, misrepresentations, and distortions, whose weight will soon sink it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Viral confusion<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately few in authority have been more wrong, and yet more self-righteously wrong, than the esteemed Dr. Anthony Fauci. Given his long service as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and his stature during the AIDS crisis, he has rightly been held up by the media as the gold standard of coronavirus information. The media has constructed Fauci as a constant corrective of Trump\u2019s supposed \u201clies\u201d about the utility of travel bans, analogies with a bad flu year, and logical endorsement of hydroxychloroquine as a \u201cwhat do you have to lose\u201d possible therapy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the omnipresent Fauci himself unfortunately has now lost credibility. The reason is that he has offered authoritative advice about facts, which either were not known or could not have been known at the time of his declarations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since January, Fauci has variously advised the nation both that the coronavirus probably was unlikely to cause a major health crisis in the United States and later that it might yet kill 240,000 Americans. In January, he praised China for its transparent handling of the coronavirus epidemic, not much later he conceded that perhaps they\u2019d done a poor job of that. He has cautioned that the virus both poses low risks and, later, high risks, for Americans. Wearing masks, Fauci warned, was both of little utility and yet, later, essential. Hydroxychloroquine, he huffed, had little utility; when studies showed that it did, he still has kept mostly silent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2020\/07\/05\/an-industry-of-untruth\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The current revolution is based on a series of lies, misrepresentations, and distortions, whose weight will soon sink it. Viral confusion Unfortunately few in authority have been more wrong, and yet more self-righteously wrong, than the esteemed Dr. Anthony Fauci. Given his long service as the director of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3f7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13502,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/eeyores-cabinet-living-in-our-kingdom-of-lies-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":12469,"position":0},"title":"Eeyore&#8217;s Cabinet: Living in Our Kingdom of Lies","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 6, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Private Papers Part Two There were a few more lies we lived with in our Kingdom of Untruth. 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