After Republican Kentucky Senator (and real-life Muppet Beaker cosplayer) Rand Paul implied that director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci lied to Congress in testimony about “gain of function” research at the Wuhan lab–at one point, with Paul apparently referring to “manimals,” which Paul states was funded by the NIH under a grant approved by Fauci, Fauci went off on Paul.
“Senator Paul, you do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly” Fauci snapped, “and I want to say that officially. You do not know what you’re talking about.”