I think there's a lot of people who still remember Fauci telling Rand Paul "I am the science!" during his congressional testimony where he denied there was any

I think there's a lot of people who still remember Fauci telling Rand Paul "I am the science!" during his congressional testimony where he denied there was any gain of function research being funded by the NIH. Edit: there was also a legal moratorium on GoF funding from 2014-2017, though I don't know when EcoHealth was funding Wuhan. I'm assuming it was during the moratorium, based on some hazy memories, but I wouldn't put money on it either way. End Edit: He served as the head of NIAID (NIH institute of allergies and infectious diseases) from 1984 to 2022. To play devil's advocate, the culture in place that allowed such poor oversight (per my previous links) and hubris can't be fixed by adding some new policies. It can only be removed by rebuilding the department under people who were not a part of the original culture. What we're seeing now is part one of that without knowing what part two is. There might not even be a part two, though I personally think it'll be somewhere in-between what it used to be and the doom prophets who say this administration is the end of the US government.