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Re:Fauci to face Covid investigators amid growing concerns a... by h2odragon on Monday June 03, 2024 @08:23AM (#40561991)
The very first line: "Democrats vigorously defended the public health bureaucracy when Republicans sought to tear it down during the pandemic"

.. Implying that no one was attempting to correct errors in process (because no errors were being made), and this was a fight to protect Respected Institutions from being torn down by conservative politicians.

...and the media wonders why they've lost trust of their readers.

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Re:Fauci to face Covid investigators amid growing concerns a... by maxerickson on Monday June 03, 2024 @09:55AM (#40562670)
Politico is hardly held up as a shining star in media circles.

It's also not very precise to cast the issue of dereliction at the NIH prior to the pandemic as of it were "the" salient contended issue at the beginning of the pandemic.

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Re:Fauci to face Covid investigators amid growing concerns a... by Arnt on Monday June 03, 2024 @09:11AM (#40562298)
Your argument silently assumes that the bureaucracy contains no error correction procedures.
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Re:Fauci to face Covid investigators amid growing concerns a... by AnimalMuppet on Monday June 03, 2024 @09:19AM (#40562353)
When the problem includes the top administrator, bureaucratic error correction procedures are somewhat less effective.
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Re:Fauci to face Covid investigators amid growing concerns a... by Arnt on Monday June 03, 2024 @09:33AM (#40562469)
Aren't we talking about the country where error correction won over the very top administrator? He said "I am not a crook", error correction won. You shouldn't just assume that such a country has no error correction.
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Re:Fauci to face Covid investigators amid growing concerns a... by AnimalMuppet on Monday June 03, 2024 @12:10PM (#40564110)
I didn't say "no error correction"; I said "somewhat less effective". Error correction worked with Nixon, eventually; it mostly worked with Trump, so far, but the final outcome is not yet known.

With Fauci... did it work?

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Re:Fauci to face Covid investigators amid growing concerns a... by Arnt on Monday June 03, 2024 @01:23PM (#40564926)
GP wrote "no one was attempting", which I didn't take to mean "only the usual set of people was attempting" or anything like that.
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