Over the past 14 months – since January 2021 – we investigated Dr. Fauci’s financials by filing FOIA requests. When I published our original reporting at Forbes, here is what happened.The National Institutes of Health, Fauci’s employer, loaded an artillery shell in their big gun and fired it at the C-suite at Forbes. Quickly, Forbes folded and my column was terminated.
Exactly why should we trust Forbes anymore?
Hi Frank,
ReplyDeleteThe article says nothing about anything underhanded on Fauci's part, but is more a disagreement with NIH reporting standards. The editors seem even patient towards Adam Andrzejewski, even informing him of how to do better. He does not agree with either their standards or how they go about these matters. We have a writer who balks at being edited and seems to read way too much into it.
I'm tending to siding with the NIH, and understand how Forbes did the same. At least at first glance, I agree with Andrzejewski's "gripe" about using the word "collecting". But, there are other words, and NIH simply wanted him to change that. Indeed, Andrzejewski made the edit. He says:
"Fauci disclosed receiving honoraria and gifts valued at $8,100 on his FY2020 ethics form. Therefore, it is fair to characterize Fauci as 'collecting' those gifts. Fauci himself reported those items on his ethics form in the 'Gift' section.
"The requested edit from NIH was a difference without a distinction. I quickly updated the piece by replacing the word 'collecting' with 'reported.'"
So okay. Anyone might do precisely the same. It makes me curious as to why the NIH did not like "collecting". Are there connotations or other usages for that word that might steer someone to think something underhanded was going on and being written about? Or is it a usage they have for a particular type of collecting that should not be conflated with both collecting and reporting an award, or just collecting an award? IDK.
But, we can see how Andrzejewski is not satisfied to say that Forbes agreed with the NIH, but he had to read their minds and say that they "folded". What does that mean? The people at Forbes started out being good guys, and then folded and sold out to the bad guys? Maybe they just agreed.
Rus