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Politics
Nandika Chatterjee

Fauci pushes back on MTG "nonsense"

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., hijacked the House Oversight Committee meeting on Monday to lambast Dr. Anthony Fauci over has response to the COVID-19 pandemic, resorting to all sorts of name-calling and bizarrely insisting that the retired medical professional is “not a doctor.”

Fauci, former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was summoned to the hearing as part of a effort by Republicans to push conspiracy theories about the origins of and response to the pandemic, Raw Story reported. Theories included that there was no scientific evidence for social distancing and that the real origins of the virus were still unknown because of an international cover up.

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