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"Humility in the face of our ignorance, not hubris concerning all that a given scientist may know (or think he/she knows)."

With respect to the latter, I suppose we should at least be thankful that Fauci wasn't born in another era with different interests only to become WWII Allied Supreme Commander... His penchant for hubris would have said "We are going to invade at Normandy, and we are only going to use our new amphibious tanks. There will be no air support, there will be no naval bombardments, and there will be no landing craft carrying troops ashore. All of those things have been proven ineffective for invasions on this particular beach." As he thought to himself "Too bad those new amphibious tanks all sink, but hey, as long as I get my contractual cut for demanding their use..."

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