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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Mon Feb 22, 2021, 04:22 PM Feb 2021

Meghan McCain Calls for Biden Administration to Replace Dr. Fauci: 'He Doesn't Understand Science'

“The View” co-host Meghan McCain has lashed out at Dr. Anthony Fauci and the Biden Administration’s vaccination rollout. “I’m over Dr. Fauci,” a frustrated McCain said on Monday’s show. “I think we need to have more people giving more opinions and honestly quite frankly, I think the Biden administration should remove him and put someone in place that does understand science or can talk like these other countries about how we can be more like these other places that are doing this successfully.”

McCain’s comments came during a frank discussion between the co-hosts centering on COVID-19 and the fact that the U.S. is reaching a record breaking number of half a million deaths since the virus began ravaging the country almost a year ago. McCain doubled down on her feelings on Fauci’s removal after the show finished airing, posting a tweet that declared “Many of you can keep worshiping at the alter of Fauchi. I’m not a phony — I will not go on TV and lie and say one thing privately and another on the air. This is my opinion. We need someone else in charge of coronavirus messaging and leadership.”

McCain quickly came under fire for her comments, as well as for expressing outrage when she complained about “the fact that I, Meghan McCain, co-host of The View, don’t know when or how I will be able to get a vaccine because the rollout for my age range and my health is so nebulous.”

“Big walking into the pharmacy and yelling
‘DON’T YOU KNOW WHO MY FATHER IS?’ energy,”
joked Media Matters for America editor-at-large Parker Malloy.

https://www.thewrap.com/meghan-mccain-fauci-covid/



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Meghan McCain Calls for Biden Administration to Replace Dr. Fauci: 'He Doesn't Understand Science' (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Feb 2021 OP
She's entitled to her opinion. SergeStorms Feb 2021 #1
well, others might say "she's entitled... so, so, so damned entitled" hlthe2b Feb 2021 #2
Oh yeah... SergeStorms Feb 2021 #5
Kind of Rebl2 Feb 2021 #14
What a totally pathetic uninformed thing to say!! Thekaspervote Feb 2021 #3
She should be replaced. 2naSalit Feb 2021 #4
So Dr. Fauci "doesn't understand science". no_hypocrisy Feb 2021 #6
Thanks for the info about Ms. McCain's art history major. 3catwoman3 Feb 2021 #12
Shut up dummy. bullimiami Feb 2021 #7
And she does? Why does she have a platform? catrose Feb 2021 #8
Accurate statement would be Dr. Fauci does not understand how to bend science for political ends... dutch777 Feb 2021 #9
What right does an Art History major nykym Feb 2021 #10
What did you get in Organic, Meghan? NT mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2021 #11
Well Dr. Meghan, he will listen to you, like he will listen to me. He won't. GemDigger Feb 2021 #13

hlthe2b

(106,330 posts)
2. well, others might say "she's entitled... so, so, so damned entitled"
Mon Feb 22, 2021, 04:31 PM
Feb 2021

Beyond that, she is worthless and her opinion is worth less than that.

no_hypocrisy

(48,778 posts)
6. So Dr. Fauci "doesn't understand science".
Mon Feb 22, 2021, 04:39 PM
Feb 2021

OK.

Meghan McCain attended Columbia University, where she earned her bachelor's degree in art history in 2007.

Anthony Fauci: In 1958, Fauci attended the Jesuit College of the Holy Cross, graduating in 1962 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in classics with a pre-med track. Fauci then attended medical school at Cornell University's Medical College (now Weill Cornell Medicine) where he graduated first in his class with a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1966.[6] He completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center (now Weill Cornell Medical Center).[5]

Career
In 1968, Fauci joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a clinical associate in the Laboratory of Clinical Investigation (LCI) at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).[12] In 1974, he became head of the Clinical Physiology Section, LCI, and in 1980 was appointed Chief of the Laboratory of Immunoregulation. In 1984, he became director of NIAID, a position he still holds as of 2021.[4] In that role, he is responsible for an extensive research portfolio of basic and applied research on infectious and immune-mediated illnesses.[12] He has turned down several offers to lead his agency's parent, the NIH, and has been at the forefront of U.S. efforts to contend with viral diseases like HIV/AIDS, SARS, the Swine flu, MERS, Ebola, and COVID-19.[13]

He played a significant role in the early 2000s in creating the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)[14] and in driving development of biodefense drugs and vaccines following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.[15]

Fauci has been a visiting professor at many medical centers and has received numerous honorary doctorates from universities in the U.S. and abroad.[16]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Fauci

3catwoman3

(25,432 posts)
12. Thanks for the info about Ms. McCain's art history major.
Mon Feb 22, 2021, 05:36 PM
Feb 2021

I was just about to Google it. You saved me the effort.

I was pretty certain she wasn't going to show up as any sort of science major.

dutch777

(3,456 posts)
9. Accurate statement would be Dr. Fauci does not understand how to bend science for political ends...
Mon Feb 22, 2021, 04:44 PM
Feb 2021

...or why one would even think that is a good idea. And why does Meg McC get any platform at all when this is the silly time wasting ill conceived and beyond worthless crap she comes up with?

GemDigger

(4,327 posts)
13. Well Dr. Meghan, he will listen to you, like he will listen to me. He won't.
Mon Feb 22, 2021, 07:23 PM
Feb 2021

Both of us are nothings worth listening too.

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