The editor-in-chief of the Science journal is defending fawning emails he sent to Dr. Anthony Fauci.
In messages to Fauci from 2020 to 2022, Science Editor-in-Chief Holden Thorp said Fauci’s family was “the first family of science” and offered to print an op-ed about “whatever you want,” including bobbleheads.
“I know now that your focus is on trying to get your message out to the public about COVID, and we’re all deeply appreciative,” Thorp said in one email in October 2020. “I know you have a lot on your plate, but your legions of fans who read our journal every week would love to hear from you. It could be after the election and you can talk about whatever you want: thank scientists for all the work they’re doing, give words of reassurance, stress the importance of peer-reviewed publications during COVID, tell us what it’s like to be a bobble head and an action figure, etc. Totally up y0u.”…