Flashback: Neil deGrasse Tyson Says Fauci Is the ‘Mainstream Understanding’ of Medicine

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DEGRASSE TYSON: “Fauci, in principle, should, and most of the time does, represent the mainstream understanding of the drugs, the disease, the reactions, and the like.”
MAHER: “The mainstream, which has been wrong about so many of it in the past.”
DEGRASSE TYSON: “Hold on. Well, this is about -- then that's a separate conversation.”
MAHER: “But it is a true conversation.”
DEGRASSE TYSON: “Hold on. So then he represents a mainstream. It's not because he's an expert, it's because he -- not only is he an expert, but that's not the -- that's not the issue here. It's that ideally he is conveying a -- a -- a community understanding of what's going on. Now, you want to put him against another person who has pedigree, Harvard, Cornell, whatever, and you're going to say it's one expert against another. That's not how science works.”