The Poster Child for America’s COVID Disinformation Campaign Complains About "Truth Deficit" in America

There’s nothing quite like the arsonist showing up at the smoldering ashes of the house he torched, wiping away an artificial tear, and lecturing the grieving family on the importance of fire safety.

But that’s exactly what happened when Francis Collins—the man who stood shoulder to shoulder with Fauci during one of the most manipulative public messaging campaigns in recent American history—strolled onto Stephen Colbert’s stage this week, full of homespun empathy and well-rehearsed grief, to decry the nation’s supposed “trust deficit.”

Yes, that Francis Collins. The same one who, while leading the National Institutes of Health, privately acknowledged the lab-leak theory was not only plausible but highly likely while publicly branding it a dangerous “conspiracy.” The same Collins who ghost-guided hit pieces through Nature Medicine to kneecap any doctor or scientist foolish enough to ask, “Hey, isn’t it odd this virus popped up a block away from a high-level coronavirus lab?”

Now he wants to lecture the country about honesty.

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