Governments must show greater concern for how their actions affect public trust, says Vinay Prasad in City Journal. Case in point, the FDA’s near-approval and then subsequent walk-back of the Pfizer vaccine for those aged six months to four years old. The result, observes Prasad, is to erode the FDA’s credibility “at precisely the time we need faith in vaccine regulators.”

A Man Who’d Do Anything to Evade the Truth
Spiked’s Matt Ridley details Anthony Fauci’s “public-sector version of insider trading.” Subpoenaed by the U.S. Senate to “discuss” the origin of Covid-19, the longest-serving and highest-paid U.S. bureaucrat instead invoked the Fifth Amendment (protecting against self-incrimination) some 111 times. Strange; he’d been pardoned by President Joe Biden. Nevertheless, it’s clear Fauci lied to the American people about nearly everything – starting with Covid’s true origins in the Wuhan lab. Further, his bizarre diary (saved to a government computer) details his “nauseating narcissism and gobsmacking greed,” says Ridley, and shows he cared more about his own fame than about ailing Americans.


