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Sad, infuriated by Fauci hearing | Letters to the editor 49%
By Sun Sentinel Editorial Board0%
7/31/2026, 3:00:17 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 19 faulty reasoning types, including Hasty Generalization, Red Herring, and Appeal to Authority, with Confirmation Bias as the most egregious example at 26% saturation with 182 hits. Analysis detected 759 faulty-reasoning hits from 701 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 48.2% and a BS Rank of 49% (11,790 of 22,840 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 51.60% of the article peer group.
I was sad and infuriated watching the Senate hearing with Dr.
Anthony Fauci.
Obviously, he’s now one of the “Trump revenge” people who can be demeaned, disparaged and ultilmately destroyed for having opposed or disagreed with him.
I watched as the combative “Trumplicans” assumed the verbal posturing of Trump: accusatory, combative, resorting to vulgarity.
Sen.
Bernie Moreno of Ohio, in a nationally televised hearing, asked Fauci: “Who the f–k do you think you were?”
Decorum and dignity, indeed.
It amused me to hear Trumplicans refer to Dr.
Fauci as a narcissist and megalomaniac, the exact description of Trump.
“The Donald,” as Ivana Trump always referred to him, suggested that Americans ingest disinfectant to ward off or cure COVID — remember?
Do you think there could ever be a Senate hearing about the withholding of the Epstein files?
Do you think there could ever be a credible Senate hearing into the Trump-designed assault of our Capitol, and the subsequent pardoning and proposed payments to the accused?
Or a hearing, perhaps, into the illegal Iran war, and the cost in lives and damage to our economy, the treasury and our standing in the world?
Trump continuously asks for more billions for his war, while also putting ill-gotten billions in his own pocket.
I pledge allegiance to the flag — but not to Trump!
— Vivian Woda, Delray Beach
It is hard to think of Anthony Fauci as a doctor.
No patients, office hours, “lollies” for kids, and no stethoscope.
And for years, no healing.
Fauci was what’s known as a “lab rat” — a doctor who studied diseases to seek cures.
He rose to the top of his craft and was an authority, paid more than his boss — the president.
He was untouchable until his self-assurance and prominence got in the way.
Fauci violated societal dysfunction.
Our way of life was truncated.
He became someone to fear, a pariah.
Many wanted him prosecuted, but our then-president pardoned him and he remained untouchable.
The evidence came at his own hand in his diary, where self-praise abounded.
The story hasn’t ended.
He's still revered by some, excoriated by many and held above reproach by his pardon.
Or will those who fear, and hate, him find a way to appropriately punish him for his conversion?
That is the conundrum.
— Richard Klitzberg, Princeton, Fla.
I recently visited a zoo while in the comfort of my home.
I saw kangaroos in their political habitat (not those native to Australia).
I refer to the U.S.
Senate Homeland Security Committee, convened to interrogate and discredit Dr.
Anthony Fauci.
A high school civics class would have seen that the purpose was to incriminate Dr.
Fauci in what was clearly a kangaroo court.
An esteemed immunologist, Fauci served our country as medical director of allergy and infectious diseases from 1984 to 2022.
His public pronouncements were concurred with by other esteemed doctors.
His exclusive function was to prevent COVID-19 from claiming the millions more who died during the deadly influenza pandemic of 1918.
I am a long-retired lawyer, but I still recognize it when purported evidence is unreliable and inadmissible in any legal proceeding.
The evidence of many entries of conversations in Fauci’s journal lacked the foundation and reliability of those who could have been called to testify about conversations with Dr.
Fauci, and, I dare say, be cross examined.
Fauci was wisely advised by his attorneys to not assist his inquisitors and followed this good advice.
In true kangaroo-court style, his lead lawyer was removed from the hearing for joining his client at the witness table.
The hearing was an obvious opportunity to publicly berate Fauci, yet it failed to contradict any of his medical advice during the three years the ravages of COVID were being controlled and his advice was being taken.
— Sheldon I.
Saitlin, Boca Raton
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