Fauci public House hearing — 'it sort of just appeared' (six feet)
Public SSCP hearing: Fauci defended operative definition of 2021 GoF testimony; six-feet social distancing guidance described as something that 'sort of just appeared' without randomized trial basis.
House SSCP public hearing — Fauci (June 3, 2024)
CNBC broadcast of the June 3, 2024 House Select Subcommittee public hearing with Fauci as witness, covering the operative definition of gain-of-function research and his remarks on the six-feet distancing guidance.
Six-feet clip heavily shared on X
Primary quotes
“It sort of just appeared.”
On six-feet distancing guidance origin (widely reported phrasing)
Linked sources
Related contentions
Unresolved definitional dispute. Tabak letter (Oct 2021) acknowledged delayed reporting of enhanced growth in mice; NIH still denied ePPP classification.
Policy history documented; scientific consensus evolved; political dispute remains.
Unresolved and actively polarized: congressional investigations and critical books press the failure-mode reading while official honors, award citations, and Fauci's own memoir press the adaptive-service reading, with no shared baseline of agreed facts between the two.