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Fully understandable. While Dr Fauci only has an MD from Cornell, the LG can boast of BA in English from University of Maryland at Baltimore County.
Did he claim to know more or did he say he would listen to other doctors and then make the decision?
"We will listen to a lot of science. We will listen to a lot of doctors. And Gov. Abbott, myself and other state leaders will make the decision. No thank you, Dr. Fauci.”"
Ignorant people make it about the pedigree. Knowledgable people make it about the topic.
The topic is epidemiology. It’s not English. If we were considering the later, the LG’s opinion might carry more weight were we face a grammar emergency.
Conspiracy theorist ideology has a pathological NEED to be anti-intellectualist as its primary mental self defense mechanism. If the people who actually know what they are talking about are right, all the loony toon conspiracies fall apart. If the conspiracies fall apart, the ego invested in the conspiracies suffers a fatal blow.
From anti-vax to Qanon, conspiracy theorist ideology is basically the unifying principle of Trump's base at this point, so this is just expected as a matter of course. Most of these people were ideologically scattered and/or politically disengaged. Trump changed that, and united them as a voting block - alienating the moderate(and sane) wing of the republicans in the process - there is a reason he built his base off of the birther conspiracy lie: it allowed him to target the subgroup most prone to being manipulated with misinformation.
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Did he claim to know more or did he say he would listen to other doctors and then make the decision?
"We will listen to a lot of science. We will listen to a lot of doctors. And Gov. Abbott, myself and other state leaders will make the decision. No thank you, Dr. Fauci.”"
Sort of the Arizona and White House approach. If the model doesn't tell me what I want to know, I'll look at other models until I find the one that tells me what I want to know and then ignore the others. Second (and third, fourth, fifth or just consensus) opinions are great. Doctor and model shopping, well, it's doctor and model shopping. Eventually you'll fine one who will prescribe the Percocet or say you've got terrible, terrible bone spurs.
Fauci is a dishonorable liar with zero credibility anymore.
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