Rand Paul: Fauci acting like the Medieval Church with 'I represent science' declaration - Fox News

National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Disease Director Anthony Fauci invoked imagery of the all-powerful church of the Medieval era when he declared on CBS News, "I represent science", medical doctor and Kentucky Sen.

Rand Paul remarked Monday on "Fox News Primetime.".

Paul, a doctor of ophthalmology who has clashed with the Brooklyn immunologist in Senate hearings multiple times in recent months, told Fox News Fauci's declaration was just the latest example of his self-important view of himself.

"When a government bureaucrat has the audacity and the arrogance to say they represent all of science, we should be running the other way," he told host Pete Hegseth.

On Sunday, Fauci told CBS that critics of government mandates offer a "distinctive anti-science flavor" in their objections.

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 04: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky (L) and NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci arrive ahead of testifying before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee about the ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on November 04, 2021 in Washington, DC

Earlier this year, Paul asked Fauci under oath if he would like to retract previous testimony to the Senate on NIH support for gain-of-function experimentation in Wuhan, China, where coronavirus originated

In November, Paul told Fauci in another hearing that his agency scrubbed a reference to gain of function from its website and that the bureaucrat's "protestations… have worn thin" with the public