"Don't sit there in your white coat and tell me 'just do what we say,'" Maher told Deadline in an interview on Friday, speaking of the medical community's response to the Coronavirus, which has claimed more than 860,000 lives since 2020.
"That's not a criticism of them like they're being corrupt, although there certainly is plenty of corruption in the medical establishment," commented the politically-minded comedian, who kicked off the 20th season of his hit HBO series Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday.
Maher did not express much confidence when asked if he felt that the medical establishment, or Dr. Fauci, the Chief Medical Advisor to the President of the United States and nation's leading infectious disease doctor, seems to "really know what they are doing."
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"But I've always maintained that the big overarching theme should be that people look back and say, 'Oh, look how far we've come medically."'
"Yes, that's true. We're not putting wooden teeth in our mouth like in the George Washington era, and of course, we have antibiotics and lots of vaccines and lots of other things that have been miraculous."
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"But in general, we still don't understand too much about how the human body works," Maher went on to say.
Maher asserted that the virus is still a "dominant issue" in our lives at current times, despite the advice from Fauci and fellow medical experts, and shouldn't be such an issue anymore.
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"I feel like Covid is still the dominant issue of our lives right now and it should not be anymore," said Maher as he kicked off his show's 20th season on Friday.
The 66-year-old comedian, who tested positive for COVID-19 last May, conceded that thus far, medical experts have been wrong about "a lot" over the years.
"They drilled mercury into my teeth when I was a child. Now, of course, we don't do that anymore, but do you really think in 50 years people will look back and say, 'Oh, yeah, we had it all figured out in 2022?' No, they will be appalled at things we're doing right now."
Despite the ongoing spread of the virus and emerging variants such as the Delta and Omicron strains, Maher expressed to Deadline that he was "never scared" of the pandemic.
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