Anthony Fauci’s Biggest Defender? Why Critics Are Scrutinizing Christine Grady

On Thursday, Dr. Anthony Fauci was wheeling out his trash when a photographer appeared. Fauci’s wife duly flipped off the photographer, but as the people should know, she deserves the same treatment.

Christine Grady earned a Ph.D. in philosophy and bioethics from Georgetown University but she is not a medical doctor and like her husband holds no advanced degrees in biochemistry or molecular biology. Grady served with the National Institute of Nursing Research, a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and in 1995 she authored The Search for an AIDS Vaccine. 

Grady identifies the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) as “the branch of the NIH primarily responsible for vaccine development.” The author identifies Dr. Anthony Fauci as “director of NIAID” but fails to tell readers she had been married to him for ten years. If anyone called that deliberate deception it would be hard to blame them.

Dr. Fauci’s drug of choice for AIDS was AZT (azidothymidine), marketed under the names Zidovudine or Retrovir. The drug has toxic effects but in the summer of 1989 Fauci announced clinical trials of AZT on pregnant mothers with HIV. As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. noted in The Real Anthony Fauci, the NIAID boss also conducted trials of AZT and other drugs on foster children in New York City.

As the BBC’s 2004 Guinea Pig Kids, documented, drugs forced on the children included AZT, Didanosene, and Nevirapene.  In The Search for an AIDS Vaccine Grady touts “the availability and effectiveness of AZT” as a boon to research. If Christine Grady objected to these experiments on human subjects, nothing has been made public.

In 2012, the NIH named Christine Grady chief of the Department of Bioethics of the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. No word that she had been married to Fauci for nearly 30 years, and nothing on the conflict of interest in the new arrangement. (The NIH page on the announcement is no longer “available”)

At NIH, Grady doubtless informed her husband’s research decisions. Dr. Fauci funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. No word from Grady about the ethics of making viruses more lethal and transmissible. Fauci and NIH director Francis Collins both lied about funding that research, but no public word from Christine Grady on the ethics of that deception.

Children were the group least vulnerable to the Covid virus but from the start Dr. Fauci set out to vaccinate children. The NIAID boss endorsed doses for children ages six months through four years old.

Fauci recommended the destructive lockdowns that caused untold suffering and loss. He smeared those who saw evidence of a laboratory origin as conspiracy theorists and fringe epidemiologists. No public word from Christine Grady about the ethics of that performance.

“Dealing with Tony Fauci is like dealing with organized crime,” Dr. Jonathan Fishbein told Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in The Real Anthony Fauci. “He’s like the Godfather. He has connections everywhere. He’s always got people that he’s giving money to in powerful positions to make sure he gets his way, that he gets what he wants. These connections give him the ultimate power to fix everything, control every narrative, escape all consequences, and sweep all the dirt and all the bodies under the carpet and to terrorize and destroy anyone who crosses him.”

In recent Senate hearings, Dr. Fauci took the Fifth Amendment 111 times, according to Miranda Devine, a number exceeded only by mob bosses. Now held in contempt, Fauci faces up to one year in prison and a fine of $100,000. That amounts to chump change for the man whose salary was higher than that of Joe Biden, who pardoned him.

Whatever happens in court, Dr. Fauci and his wife Christine Grady have earned the everlasting contempt of the American people.