Paul wrote Sunday on Twitter: "The absolute hubris of someone claiming THEY represent science. It's astounding and alarming that a public health bureaucrat would even think to claim such a thing, especially one who has worked so hard to ignore the science of natural immunity."
He was reacting to an interview with CBS News' Face The Nation where President Joe Biden's Chief Medical Adviser dismissed Republican criticism of his work as "lies" and agreed with the idea that GOP lawmakers were utilizing him as a victim.
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"Anybody who's looking at this carefully realizes that there's a distinct anti-science flavor to this, so if they get up and criticize science, nobody's going to know what they're talking about," Fauci told CBS' Margaret Brennan.
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Referring to himself in the third person, he continued: "But if they get up and really aim their bullets at Tony Fauci, well people can recognize that there's a person there, so it's easy to criticize, but they're really criticizing science because I represent science."
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Paul had accused Fauci of misleading about the NIH's involvement in coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, an allegation Fauci fought back against, calling Paul a liar.
In May, Fauci testified that the NIH "has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology."
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Fauci said throughout that hearing that there was no way to know if Chinese scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology lied and carried gain-of-function experiments on bat coronaviruses using U.S. tax dollars.
"There's no way of guaranteeing that," Fauci announced at a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing, answering a question from Republican Sen. John Kennedy.
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"But in our experience with grantees, including Chinese grantees, which we have had interactions with for a very long period of time - they are very competent, trustworthy scientists," Fauci testified.
Then in July, Dr. Fauci lashed out at Senator Paul during a Senate hearing and accused the Kentucky Republican of being a "liar" who "doesn't know what you're talking about" when it comes to COVID origins and gain-of-function research.
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"Dr. Fauci, knowing that it is a crime to lie to Congress, do you wish to retract your statement of May 11 where you claimed the NIH [National Institutes of Health] never funded gain of function research in Wuhan?" Paul asked of the country's top immunologist and Joe Biden's top COVID Advisor.
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