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Well, the orthodoxy survives anything its Storm Troopers want it to. Lotta money and power invested in it. I was too young to have memories of the Eisenhower Presidency, and was only familiar with his military-industrial complex quote, but there's this, too: '“Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields… ,” Eisenhower warned. “Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity.”' [from AAAS 2011 article by Warren E. Leary]

Someone explain to me how Fauci managed to become the most powerful man in America.

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