Dr. Oz challenges 'petty tyrant' Fauci to a debate...
https://www.foxnews.com/media/dr-oz-fauci-challenges-debate-kilmeade
Would Fauci have anything to gain from debating Oz? Even if Fauci exposes Oz for being an entertainer masquerading as a quack, would it matter to the Oz supporters?
Ranb
Whether there would be a benefit would depend on exactly what Oz wants to debate. I have listened to the whole interview where he made this challenge and his declaration for a Senate run and I have no idea what he wants to debate Fauci about.
He says he created life-saving inventions and trained surgeons but decided that he would limit messaging on treatment and instead focus on going on television to promote personal action to prevent disease. Now he admonishes Fauci for limiting messaging on treatment and instead focus on going on television to promote personal action to prevent disease.
He says Fauci told people go to hide under their covers and let the smarty pants people take care of them instead of empowering the people. What empowerment? Empowerment of prevention is things like avoiding crowds and mearing masks. Reading between the lines, I think he means power to choose experimental drugs.
In the interview he talks about hydroxychloroquine, at least in the early days, and how it was banned by Cuomo and therapeutics were disparaged. Cuomo issued an order in March 2020 to purchase tens of thousands of doses of the drug and support clinical trials. Trials showed it didn't work. FDA didn't approve it for covid. Cuomo banned it outside of FDA approved uses and authorized covid trials. Of course, none of that has anything to do with Fauchi.
He talks about the Merck pill. He means molnupiravir. He says it existed and was available two years before covid. It did exist. It wasn't available. Research had slowed down due to probable unexpected RNA mutations. Interested had started to grow in late 2019 to make it safer and study effects on influenza. This was from grants by NIH and clinical trials approved by NIAID. That's Fauci. He is Director of NIAID, a division of NIH. Oz says after it was FDA approved Biden didn't buy enough to cover all 325 million Americans. Biden got 70 million. It is used to treat people with severe covid symptoms, not to be given to everybody. And there are millions of doses of other better treatments. Again, nothing to do with Fauci.
Maybe a debate could be had over whether FDA polices on emergency approval experimental drugs is too strict. That's probably a debate best addressed by people on the FDA board.
Given all that, I don't know what Oz would debate with Fauci. He has not presented any arguments where Fauci has purview and has expressed a differing position. Oz just seems to be ranting, about FDA policies at most, and about wrongful facts at least. I don't see what the topics for a debate with Fauci would even be.
