Sticking with Science
It appears that this is precisely what happened to Dr. Fauci during the COVID-19 pandemic. He ran into the perfect storm of anti-science crackpots, and the far right-wing, often counterfactual media, e.g., Fox News and Newsmax.
There are still people who believe that, after 50 years of service, working under five different presidents, his statements about the disease were aimed at crippling the U.S. economy.
You tell a Big Lie long enough to people who aretwo things:
1.) predisposed to positively receiving that Big Lie: and
2.) dumber than rocks and totally morally corrupt
that’s what you get.