American Lysenko

NAS Director of Science Programs J. Scott Turner reviews Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s The Real Anthony Fauci, in which Kennedy dissects the costly incompetence of our scientific health establishment during the Covid-19 pandemic. Turner is most troubled by “how Fauci and his NIAID cabal have crushed the normal process of science: of objectivity and open discussion of alternate views centered at all times on reliable data.” Kennedy’s book, according to Turner, provides fodder for those who question whether government funded science can ever be sufficiently free of politics.