2. The Fauci protocol (a term coined by @MollylRoberts in an excellent Washington Post profile) works like this: you use social networks & prestige of science to cut against the grain of partisan alliances. In practice this meant working with both Larry Kramer & the Bushes.
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3. Fauci is a scientist but he's also, crucially, a master of social networking. Not many people, I suspect, have been friends -- I mean, genuine friends --with both Larry Kramer & George H.W. Bush. Fauci has & that allowed him to build unique alliances.
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4. But Fauci's approach only works if you have politicians that show some deference to science or feel its in their interest to ally with prestige of science. More thoughts on why it hasn't worked this time:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-destroyed-fauci-protocol/ …
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Hola, you can read it here:
@HeerJeet: 1. In figuring out how to fix Reagan's botched & cruel response to AIDS, Anthony Fauci developed a protocol… https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1285246791974182912.html … Talk to you soon.
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This is why the right wing has been attacking the prestige of science.n
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Well, that and decades of science getting in the way of unrestrained corporate evil, going back to the fights to regulate lead and tobacco.
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