Rand Paul Abandons His Hippocratic Oath to Play Politics During a Pandemic

[Judi Lynn]

The senator from Kentucky’s “Fire Fauci” crusade is a crude scheme to exploit fears and raise campaign cash, and Dr. Anthony Fauci called him out on it.

By John Nichols
TODAY 5:00 AM

Rand Paul is a doctor who became a politician. That should have made the senator from Kentucky a valuable voice during a pandemic. Instead, the ophthalmologist has abandoned any pretense of upholding the physician’s pledge to “lead my life, and practice my art, in uprightness and honor.” While Paul still claims to respect the Hippocratic oath, the Republican has failed at every turn to demonstrate his commitment to “hold myself aloof from wrong and from corruption.”

Finally, after almost two years of spreading outrageous lies about the virus and the scientists who are fighting it, Paul has been called out by the primary target of his dangerously irresponsible assault on public health initiatives that are designed to combat Covid-19. Dr. Anthony Fauci has accused the senator, who is running for a new term in 2022, of exploiting a “catastrophic epidemic” for “political gain.”

Indeed, suggests the immunologist who has served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since former President Ronald Reagan’s first term, Paul is attacking Fauci and spreading misinformation in order to raise money for his reelection bid.

That’s blunt talk of a sort few ever expected to hear from Fauci, the usually mild-mannered physician who has seen the country through decades of health scares. But Fauci has come to recognize, as have a lot of people, that Paul needs to be put in his place.

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https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/rand-paul-fauci/

[The Unmitigated Gall]

1. "Uprightness and honor" mix with Ayn-Randian selfishness

About as well as bacon grease and water.

[Harker]

2. He's taken the Hypocritical Oath, too. n/t

[fwvinson]

3. Send me alot of money and I'll go after R. Paul

I know where he lives, I know where his office is, we have/had the same attorney, their offices are connected to each other. I can go after him, politically. If you want me to go after him...send me lots of money and I will

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. For this thread

Link to tweet

[Hieronymus Phact]

5. Not a real Dr.

He's no more of a Doctor than Dr. Seuss.