The Real Anthony Fauci
The Real Anthony Fauci is a 2021 book by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in which he attacks Anthony Fauci and his leadership of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In the book, Kennedy offers disinformation about Fauci's role during the HIV epidemic and the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and HIV/AIDS denialism.[1][2] The book was described as "controversial" by The Guardian and Publishers Weekly and a "conspiracy theory extravaganza" by Science-Based Medicine.[3]
Author
English
November 16, 2021
480
Publication
The Real Anthony Fauci is a 480-page[4] book written by anti-vaccination conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.[5][6] The book was published by Skyhorse Publishing[7] on November 16, 2021.[8][4]
Synopsis
The book accuses American public health leader Anthony Fauci of thirty years of abuse of power, during both the HIV epidemic and the COVID-19 pandemic.[9] It includes dustjacket blurbs by Tucker Carlson, Naomi Wolf, Oliver Stone, and Alan Dershowitz.[10]
In the book, Kennedy accuses Fauci of pulling off "a historic coup d’état against Western democracy"[11] and promotes unproven COVID-19 treatments, including hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin.[12] The author shares his opinion that COVID-19 vaccines are not sufficiently safety tested,[8] and likens vaccine mandates in the United States to living under the rule of Nazi Germany.[13]
The book accuses Fauci of deliberately neglecting to use hydroxychloroquine in order to increase the number of people who would die from COVID-19.[14] Studies show the drug is ineffective against COVID-19.[15]
Kennedy also attacks the science of AIDS, spending over a hundred pages quoting HIV denialists such as Peter Duesberg who question the isolation of HIV and the etiology of AIDS.[16] Kennedy refers to the "orthodoxy that HIV alone causes AIDS",[4]: 348 and the "theology that HIV is the sole cause of AIDS",[4]: 351 as well as repeating the HIV/AIDS denialist claim that no one has isolated the HIV particle and "No one has been able to point to a study that demonstrates their hypothesis using accepted scientific proofs".[4]: 348
Film
In 2022, Kala Mandrake directed the 111-minute film The Real Anthony Fauci. The Radio Times categorized the film as "crime/detective | fantasy".[24] The film features Kennedy.[25]