# Question about Tony Fauci **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [March 19, 2023, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-tony-fauci/981355 "2023-03-19T12:02:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![Tfletch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tfletch1/32/5340_2.png) [@Tfletch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tfletch1)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2023, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-tony-fauci/981355/8 "2023-03-19T14:05:50Z")
Here’s a great example of trying to reason with people who aren’t looking for truth. This thread starts off with a good faith question about the fight between Rand Paul and Fauci and gain-of-function research. People have a nice discussion and share information. Then it goes off the rails and the thread has to finally be closed. > [@Rand Paul And Fauci](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rand-paul-and-fauci/946905): > > [[Dr. Anthony Fauci to Sen. Rand Paul at hearing: You do not know what you're talking about] ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pnb2Yxri6eY) In this video, Rand Paul is arguing that the NIH funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan. Fauci denies it, but mostly blusters and attacks a strawman (within the context of this video). Paul says (summarizing), “NIH was not to fund gain-of-function research in Wuhan. Here’s your definition of gain-of-function. Here’s what the report says was done there. By this definition what was done is … --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-tony-fauci/981355)._